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Date: Fri Dec  2 09:37:03 PST 1994
From: gus-general-request@gaia.ucs.orst.edu (GUS Server)
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Subject: GUS Daily Digest V17 #2

GUS Daily Digest            Fri, 2 Dec 94  9:37 PST      Volume 17: Issue   2 

Today's Topics:
                               arh!!!!
          Can safely use Adaptec 1542B w/ GUS, Megaem, SBOS.
                       Configuring GUS in Linux
                           Digest vol 17 #1
                        Flashback and Dune II
                          GUS / OS2 warp....
                  GUS Daily Digest V16 #30 (8 msgs)
                   GUS Daily Digest V17 #1 (4 msgs)
          How/Where can I get gus files without FTP access?
                               Indycar
                             Mail failure
                   Midas Sound System for Windows?
                                nascar
                            OS/2 drivers?
    problem with getting MEGAEM to work with EarthSiege for CD-ROM
                          Quest for Glory IV

Standard Info:
	- Meta-info about the GUS can be found at the end of the Digest.
	- Before you ask a question, please READ THE FAQ.

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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 16:47:04 -0700 (MST)
From: Ignatius Tam <tam@amisk.cs.ualberta.ca>
Subject: arh!!!!

ok, now it's my turn....5 copies of yesterday's digest...
arhhhhhhhh
i would unsubscribe if this occured next time :)

-iGnatius

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Date: Fri, 02 Dec 1994 09:17:17 +0100
From: Robert Virding <rv@erix.ericsson.se>
Subject: Can safely use Adaptec 1542B w/ GUS, Megaem, SBOS.

> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 11:03:12 GMT
> From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: GUS and Adaptec 1542b SCSI controller
> 
> >I have an Adaptec 1542B SCSI controller and a Ultrasound.  The 1542B
> >is my boot device, and, while the card has strappable I/O addresses,
> >the BIOS ROM is hard coded to use address 330.  This conflicts with
> >one of the address on the Ultrasound, and causes problems (Sound
> >Blaster emulation doesn't work.)
> 
> Is this right? Does a BIOS really use an IO address? I though that a
> BIOS was likely to occupy a block of high numbered addresses somewhere
> bwtween 640k and 1M. Or do I misunderstand - perhaps you mean that
> you can move the card away from 330, but then the BIOS refuses to
> use it? Perhaps Adaptec can supply a new BIOS ROM to plug in.
> 
> Anyway the problem is that 330 is the standard
> address for some Roland contraption that you are trying to emulate,
> so if you can't shift the SCSI card away from there, then you have
> then danger of attempts to access your SCSI devices being intercepted
> by the emulation program. Don't know about SBOS, but I thought the docs
> for megaem discussed this, and that there was some kind of switch so
> that it could attempt to distinguish between the uses of the same
> address. There were also dire warnings about danger to the data on
> your HD!

I don't really see the problem. I have an Adaptec 1542 and have just
restrapped the i/o address to 334H (if I can remember correctly). Now
everything works fine: Megaem without any extra flags, SBOS, the lot.

	Robert

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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 14:17:49 -0800 (PST)
From: John Tomaszewski <tomasz@helix.chem.washington.edu>
Subject: Configuring GUS in Linux

	I'm about to reconfigure my kernel to take advantage of my new 
GUS but I'm not sure of how to answer some of the prompts (i.e. is it 
desireable or required to emulate other cards at times?).  Assuming I use 
the default DMA, IRQ, etc. (should I?) could someone help fill in some of 
the blanks:  (my guesses in parenthesis)

1) ...full version of driver?		(n)__
2) ...DISABLE the sound driver?		(n)__
3) Enable PAS or AdLib?			_________________
(I know the SB shouldn't be enabled with the GUS at 0x220 so should I put 
the GUS elswhere and enable SB?)
4) SB Pro support?			_____
5) SB 16 support?			_____
6) digitized voice support?		_____
7) MIDI interface support?		(y)__ 
(is this strictly for external devices or for MIDI software too?)
8) FM synth. support?			(y)__

I guess that's it.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.

********************************************************************
**  **  ** ** * **            DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY             **
**  **  ** ** * **        tomasz@helix.chem.washington.edu        **
**  **  ** ** * **                                                **
**   *****  *****                JOHN TOMASZEWSKI                 ** 
********************************************************************

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Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 15:47:37 GMT
From: "Mark D. Billinge" <PPYLMDB@ppn3.physics.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: Digest vol 17 #1

What's happening with the digest this week?  I recieved number vol 
16 #30 twice, and why were there 8 posts of #30 in volume 17 #1?!

Mark

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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 19:10:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Mike Batchelor <M.Batchelor@babylon4.clark.net>
Subject: Re: Flashback and Dune II

Not the GUS Server once wrote...
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 14:40:17 +0100
> From: mogens beltoft <mbel92@control.auc.dk>
> Subject: Flashback and Dune II
> 
> I'm not exactly satisfied with the sound in Flaskback (I'm using Megaem), so
> could anyone please help me with the configuration, or other possibilities.

Use SBOS.  There isn't a lot of music in Flashback anyway.  MegaEm sometimes
forgets to stop playing notes.  SBOS doesn't, and the small amount of music
there is, doesn't sound any better or worse with SBOS.  Digital FX are the
same with both.

Naturally, you set up FB for a Sound Blaster when using SBOS.

> And when I read the glist it suggested me to find the AIL patch for Dune II ??
> What is the filename and where do I find it, and what do I do??

dune2ail.zip, archive.epas.utoronto.ca under pub/pc/ultrasound, and follow the
directions.

-- 
\\\ Mike Batchelor /// mikebat@clark.net \\\ M.Batchelor@babylon4.clark.net ///
"Supporting Windows is like buying a puppy.  The dog only cost $100, but
we spent another $500 cleaning the carpet."
 - Marc Dodge, "Reality Check", _Open Computing_, December 1994

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Date: Fri, 2 Dec 94 03:15:23 -0800
From: brian@ccnext.ucsf.EDU (Brian Huddleston)
Subject: GUS / OS2 warp....

Greetings all,

I wanted to ask people out there using OS/2 WARP, how well does the gus/games/
mod players work with it?  I've got a dos machine, but am thinking of getting
warp (I have a 386-40 with 4mb ram) I keep hearing probs with OS/2 drivers for
gus, but are they for the OS/2 native, and the dos emulator works fine, or is
it that the GUS'es are having probs through out the software?  ps how well 
does it work with Iplay.  I've been noticing that I mostely use my machine for
NetSurfing/Playing music/Wordprocess/ and one or two quick action games.  
Should I stick with DOS?  Thanks....


brian@ccnext.ucsf.edu

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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 94 14:31:25 MST
From: dchow@stu.athabascau.ca (Donald Chow)
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V16 #30 (8 msgs)

> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 94 16:56 EST
> From: Adminstrator <AIG/GRANITE1/POSTMASTER%AIG@mcimail.com>
> Subject: Mail failure
> 
> FROM: Adminstrator
> TO: GUS Daily Digest                                           DATE: 11-30-94
>                                                                TIME: 16:50
> SUBJECT: Mail failure
>  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> User mail received addressed to the following unknown addresses:
>   aig/granite1/fcass
> 
>  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> MCI Mail date/time: Wed Nov 30, 1994  1:26 pm  EST
>   Source date/time: Wed Nov 30 09:37:05 PST 1994

  What the hell is going on?  All this bouncing back and forth of the old 
digest is driving me nuts!  8copies of digest16 was not amusing!  Is the
above the problem?  I've seen that message a few times in previous digests...

  If I were I cynic, (and I am) I'd suspect someone was trying to mail-bomb
everyone on the digest... Disgruntled AWE owner maybe? ;)

Don

-- 
Donald Chow                       | X-Phile, GATB & SSTB
dchow@a.stu.athabascau.ca         | Call (202) 555-6431 for a 'IDDG' time
bf298@freenet.carleton.ca         | Go-o uchi masuka?

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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 94 16:19:12 -0500
From: mng@tse.com (Mark C. Ng)
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V17 #1

RE: Does Rise of Robots work with GUS?

Well I found that te Demo version works ok (digital effects only) with the
US . But it doesn't work with the Full version .. I just get cut outsound
and only BASE line for music ..  sound terrible...

It's works as good as if I didin't have one!!  

Some body else said that It works fine... but I couldn't figure it out!!

Mark

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Date: Fri, 2 Dec 94 8:51 GMT
From: "Mark.Carline Bsc Elec Eng 3rd" <EEU001@HEATON.NORTHUMBRIA.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V17 #1

I just wondered if anyone has had any trouble when recording in 8 bit using
the GUS ?  When I record silence the information that is recorded has got
some form of DC offset error (ie I get +DC volts for silence!!)

Is there anyway I can change the DC offset level on the GUS card ??

Mark.Carline@uk.ac.unn.heaton

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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 21:59:10 -0500
From: ba384@freenet.carleton.ca (Peter Kowalski)
Subject: How/Where can I get gus files without FTP access?

Gee. My GUS MAX is very nice.  However, I do enjoy keeping my software
up-to-date.  But unfortunatly, I don't have FTP access, and would like to
know how I could get the stuff I want.

Building on what I said earlier, is there any patches for Warcraft
circulating around? I know that in 3 weeks the real patch is out (how can
I get it without FTP?), but want to know if there are any I could try now.
(Impatient).

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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 20:28:50 -0500 (EST)
From: "K.S. Holly" <u8843389@muss.CIS.McMaster.CA>
Subject: Indycar

Does anyone have advice on how to get satisfactory sound out of Indycar?

After 2 years of putting up with BAD emulation, I thought things were 
starting to turn around, now I'm not so sure. I'm getting really tired 
of putting up with these hassles and poor sound in games.

Then again, aren't we all....

Sorry, I'm just really pissed at this particular moment...

Request for advice still stands re:Indycar

Kevin

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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 94 16:55 EST
From: Msg Recipient <AIG/GRANITE1/POSTMASTER%AIG@mcimail.com>
Subject: Mail failure

FROM: AIG/GRANITE1/POSTMASTER
TO: GUS Daily Digest                                           DATE: 12-01-94
                                                               TIME: 16:44
SUBJECT: Mail failure
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

[002] Mail was received that was addressed to unknown addresses.
Mail item was not delivered to:
  aig

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MCI Mail date/time: Thu Dec 01, 1994  1:42 pm  EST
  Source date/time: Thu Dec  1 09:37:05 PST 1994
-------------------

GUS Daily Digest            Thu, 1 Dec 94  9:37 PST      Volume 17: Issue   1

Today's Topics:
                       Advent Christmas program
          Can safely use Adaptec 1542B w/ GUS, Megaem, SBOS.
               Does "Rise of the Robots" work with GUS?
                        Flashback and Dune II
                             gppiano.pat
                  GUS Daily Digest V16 #30 (8 msgs)
                                 help
                help on how to get some games working.
                         Here we go again...
                             HMI drivers
                             Mail failure
                              New Games
                       New PC-box; hangin' GUS
                    Soundcard Reviews in PC World
                   UFO/XCOM, is it native or what?
                         WARCRAFT AND AIL 3.0

Standard Info:
	- Meta-info about the GUS can be found at the end of the Digest.
	- Before you ask a question, please READ THE FAQ.

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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 94 22:19:35 CST
From: cowles@hydra.convex.com (John Cowles)
Subject: Advent Christmas program

I have uploaded ADVENT.ZIP to epas. It is a program which
produces an Advent Calendar on your screen and has a different
Christmas Carol (midi) for each day of Advent. The zip file
includes a patchmanager '.pcf' file for playing the carols
on your GUS.

Enjoy!

John

--
     John Cowles        cowles@hydra.convex.com   CompuServe: 72074,451
                        Convex Computer Corp.  214 497 4375
                        3000 Waterview Pkwy
                        Richardson, Tx. 75080

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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 13:43:26 -0600 (CST)
From: lance@mpd.tandem.com (Lance Hartmann)
Subject: Can safely use Adaptec 1542B w/ GUS, Megaem, SBOS.

Previously:

> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 11:03:12 GMT
> From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: GUS and Adaptec 1542b SCSI controller
>
> >I have an Adaptec 1542B SCSI controller and a Ultrasound.  The 1542B
> >is my boot device, and, while the card has strappable I/O addresses,
> >the BIOS ROM is hard coded to use address 330.  This conflicts with
> >one of the address on the Ultrasound, and causes problems (Sound
> >Blaster emulation doesn't work.)
>
> Is this right? Does a BIOS really use an IO address? I though that a
> BIOS was likely to occupy a block of high numbered addresses somewhere
> bwtween 640k and 1M. Or do I misunderstand - perhaps you mean that
> you can move the card away from 330, but then the BIOS refuses to
> use it? Perhaps Adaptec can supply a new BIOS ROM to plug in.
>
> Anyway the problem is that 330 is the standard
> address for some Roland contraption that you are trying to emulate,
> so if you can't shift the SCSI card away from there, then you have
> then danger of attempts to access your SCSI devices being intercepted
> by the emulation program. Don't know about SBOS, but I thought the docs
> for megaem discussed this, and that there was some kind of switch so
> that it could attempt to distinguish between the uses of the same
> address. There were also dire warnings about danger to the data on
> your HD!


1)  Megaem has worked just fine cooperating with my Adaptec 1542B.
    Just remember to specify the whatever-flag (don't have my doc
    w/ me here).  I've had no problems whatsoever with this in the
    past, though I must admit that I haven't tried this with the
    latest versions of Megaem.  Fortunately, the few games I've
    purchased have native GUS support.

2)  SBOS (SoundBlaster emulation) has no I/O conflict problems with
    the default 1542B addresses.

3)  Adaptec does (at least they once did) offer an alternative ROM with
    a different base address.  I believe if you have access to an EPROM
    burner, you can even download the image from their BBS to make your own.
    Again, I didn't have to do this at all for Megaem support.

your mileage may, of course, vary.....
Lance Hartmann (lance@mpd.tandem.com)
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
All opinions, viewpoints, etc. expressed herein are all mine -- not Tandem's.
============================================================================

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Date: 30 Nov 94 17:53:46 EST
From: Jonathan Clark <100410.3324@compuserve.com>
Subject: Does "Rise of the Robots" work with GUS?
Message-ID: <941130225346_100410.3324_BHG64-2@CompuServe.COM>

The header says all - Does "RotR" wirk with the GUS?

I'd like to know before I shell out!

Also - is the "Directors cut" any different to the basic game (except the
price,
obviously!)

 -------------------------------
Jonny Clark - Belfast

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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 14:40:17 +0100
From: mogens beltoft <mbel92@control.auc.dk>
Subject: Flashback and Dune II

I'm not exactly satisfied with the sound in Flaskback (I'm using Megaem), so
could anyone please help me with the configuration, or other possibilities.

And when I read the glist it suggested me to find the AIL patch for Dune II ??
What is the filename and where do I find it, and what do I do??

                        ////
 mbel92@control.auc.dk (o o) Mogens Beltoft
-------------------oOO--(_)--OOo------------

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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 16:14:04 -0700 (MST)
From: Ignatius Tam <tam@amisk.cs.ualberta.ca>
Subject: gppiano.pat

Hi guys,

i found a message in epas that someone need an upload of the grand piano
patch from the gus exp. cd.  i would upload it if it's distributable,
but i've to make sure if i can then i would do it.
pls mail me: tam@cs.ualberta.ca

-iGnatius

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Date: Wed Nov 30 09:37:05 PST 1994
From: gus-general-request@gaia.ucs.orst.edu (GUS Server)
Subject: GUS Daily Digest V16 #30

GUS Daily Digest            Wed, 30 Nov 94  9:37 PST     Volume 16: Issue  30

Today's Topics:
                            AU Sound file
                          CD Audio connector
                          gus+soundman wave?
                GUS and Adaptec 1542b SCSI controller
                      GUS and KQ7 under Win 3.1
                       GUS Daily Digest V16 #29
                    GUS drivers for Windows NT3.5
                       GUS MAX and Gateway 2000
                             HMI Drivers
                    Please gives us Warcraft-patch
                      Reading data from a CD ROM
                    Soundcard Reviews in PC World
                              Theme Park
                        Windows mixer problem
                      Windows NT drivers for GUS

Standard Info:
	- Meta-info about the GUS can be found at the end of the Digest.
	- Before you ask a question, please READ THE FAQ.

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Date: 30 Nov 94 06:15:55 EST
From: Jon Grieve <100102.145@compuserve.com>
Subject: AU Sound file
Message-ID: <941130111554_100102.145_EHK67-3@CompuServe.COM>

With regard to Nick Cook's question 'What format is an AU file?'; To read,
play
and convert .AU files under Windows, and to allow Mosaic to download and
handle
then correctly, you can get WHAM for Windows, which will read almost all sound
file types, or Cool Waveform Editor which handles even more.  Then in the
Mosaic
INI file, set the 'association' for .AU to either of these sound players, so
that once downloaded, the audio file appears in the correct player.  Simple.

Hope this helps,
Jon Grieve

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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 11:07:37 GMT
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: CD Audio connector

>How do you connect the CD audio cable to the GUS if it (connector) has only
>three plugs (after cover is removed from connector) which correspond to
>right, ground, and left.

You just need to cobble something together, or else get a different
cable. Whichever of your 3 wires is ground wants to be connected to
*both* the middle pins on the GUS, so you need to split it. Perhaps
the GUS pins are connected on the board, so connecting to just one
of them would do, but I don't know. It's common for these cables
to have 3 wires at the CD end, but 4 at the GUS.

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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 22:29:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Jason G Johnson <jgjohn01@homer.louisville.edu>
Subject: gus+soundman wave?

I am getting a gus soon and I want to know if the gus and a logitech soundman
wave can get along in one box. I would like to keep the soundman so I have a
soundblaster card and gmidi (ok i know the patches suck) with some stubbern
games. If it matters my smw is set up at port 220 irq 5 for sb and 330 irq2
for gmidi, anything I should change?

Btw has anyone got strike commander to work with gus
doing midi(mega-em) and a sound blaster taking the audio??


Thanks,

Jason

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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 11:03:12 GMT
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: GUS and Adaptec 1542b SCSI controller

>I have an Adaptec 1542B SCSI controller and a Ultrasound.  The 1542B
>is my boot device, and, while the card has strappable I/O addresses,
>the BIOS ROM is hard coded to use address 330.  This conflicts with
>one of the address on the Ultrasound, and causes problems (Sound
>Blaster emulation doesn't work.)

Is this right? Does a BIOS really use an IO address? I though that a
BIOS was likely to occupy a block of high numbered addresses somewhere
bwtween 640k and 1M. Or do I misunderstand - perhaps you mean that
you can move the card away from 330, but then the BIOS refuses to
use it? Perhaps Adaptec can supply a new BIOS ROM to plug in.

Anyway the problem is that 330 is the standard
address for some Roland contraption that you are trying to emulate,
so if you can't shift the SCSI card away from there, then you have
then danger of attempts to access your SCSI devices being intercepted
by the emulation program. Don't know about SBOS, but I thought the docs
for megaem discussed this, and that there was some kind of switch so
that it could attempt to distinguish between the uses of the same
address. There were also dire warnings about danger to the data on
your HD!

 -----------------------------

Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 17:42:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Hank Leukart <hleukart@shell.portal.com>
Subject: GUS and KQ7 under Win 3.1
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.941129174206.10463B-100000@jobe.shell.portal.com>

	Anyone get KQ7 and the GUS working under Windows?  All the TEST
hardware music works fine, but it won't play in the actual game.
-Hank

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--- (ap641@cleveland.freenet.edu) --- |  FAQ available by E-mail or infant2
-----(hleukart@shell.portal.com)----- | E-mail with Subject: "DOOM FAQ
Request"
 ------------------------------------ |     "Official" DOOM FTP Site:
 -------------------------------------|      ftp.orst.edu: /pub/doom

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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 17:54:22 -0500
From: Christian Brideau <brideau@revcan.ca>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V16 #29
Message-ID: <9411291754.aa12380@macdonald.revcan.ca>

Vince, you should REALLY do somthing about those idiots who post the
entire digest again and again and again...  I didn't read it entirely
because it was getting on my nerves.  And with a 2400 bps modem, you
can understand why.

Chris

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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 94 09:26:29 EDT
From: "Fisher.G" <Fisher.G@as02.bull.oz.au>
Subject: GUS drivers for Windows NT3.5

Hi,
Are there any GUS drivers available for Windows NT3.5 ? If so, how would I
obtain them ?

Greg
(Melbourne - Victoria - Australia)

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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 11:23:06 GMT
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: GUS MAX and Gateway 2000

>I am almost sure that I am going to get a Gateway 2000 P4D-66, the
>regular desktop (that is, non-tower) system.  But before I do, I have two
>questions:
>1) Will my GUS MAX fit?
>2) Is the double speed CD-ROM it comes with compatible with the GUS MAX?

The P4D-66 claims to have 4 ISA slots (don't know whether 8/16 bit).
The old GUS was a large card - nearly full length - but possibly later
models are smaller. In any case, surely there must be several slots in
there which would accomodate it. Verify with Gateway before you buy.

Given that the CD is already in the computer, it must have it's own
interface card of some sort, or else be connected to a CD interface on
the motherboard. If you are thinking of ditching this
interface and connecting the drive to the GUS-MAX CD interface, then you
had better find out what model of CD it is. But there is *NO BENEFIT*
to doing this other than saving a slot in the machine. The only
connection you need between a CD drive and the GUS is an audio cable
from the back of the drive to the CD Audio pins on the GUS, and even
this isn't needed unless you intend to play CDs with audio tracks on
them (for example MicroSoft Beethoven etc. are mainly audio tracks,
while Encarta has no audio tracks at all - all its sounds are WAV
files or similar).

 -----------------------------

Date: 30 Nov 94 06:15:53 EST
From: Jon Grieve <100102.145@compuserve.com>
Subject: HMI Drivers
Message-ID: <941130111552_100102.145_EHK67-2@CompuServe.COM>

Ok, so I'm probably a little behind the times here.  Am I right in thinking
that
we - the humble GUS users - can't update HMI drivers ourselves?  My
understanding is that the various HMI drivers for the various supported sound
cards and 'compiled' into the .386 files, but also somehow compiled into the
games also.  Therefore, it's not possible to just copy around HMI*.386 files
from game-to-game to pick up the working GUS ones.

Is this true?  Are we at the mercy of the games companies to ship updated HMI
drivers sets when/if Gravis, for example, update their code?  There's so many
games coming out that use the HMI sets, and so many that didn't quite get the
Gravis drivers in.  Also, as usual, most demo's just have SB support to save
space.  It'd be nice to just whack in the HMI*.386 file set from a working
game,
and provide native GUS support to all these applications.

Just my thoughts.

Jon Grieve

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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 94 23:20:58 MET
From: Broderdue <iqivar@hp1.cbs.dk>
Subject: Please gives us Warcraft-patch

Header says it all... Where is these rumoured AIL 3.0 drivers ??

	\////
	|. .|
	( - )   Broderdue

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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 10:54:01 GMT
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Reading data from a CD ROM

Wow! 180k of Digest including 7 (unless I lost count) copies of previous
Digests. I think it's a record. Glad I don't subscribe to this on my
dial-up account - can anyone with knowledge of mail headers arrange
that these bounces are lost, rather than re-mailed - perhaps have the
Digest sent out from a different address than the submission address?

Quite a bit lately about reading data direct from CD. Certainly there
is potential to take a sample from a CD and make it into a patch. Not
that making good patches is easy, even if you have a good sample.
The trouble is that is seems only some drives support this. Is there
any evidence of any programs that will read from a SCSI drive - in
particular a Tosh 4101 like I have?

 -----------------------------

Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 13:07:44 -0500 (EST)
From: "Christopher M. DiPierro" <cdipierr@wam.umd.edu>
Subject: Soundcard Reviews in PC World

I was just wondering if anyone else saw the soundcard reviews in PC
World's December 1994 issue.  They review the GUS Max, along with the
AWE32 and a few others.  While the review is perhaps one of the better
comparisons I've seen done in a magazine to date, I think they brushed
past some key issues.

First of all, they seem to use ROM based samples (used on certain cards)
and disk based RAM designs (like the GUS's) almost interchangably.  This
doesn't fully show the expandibility of the GUS and other cards based on
the same design.

Second, they mentioned briefly the DSP which they say increases the
card's speed.  However, I think they spent too little time on it.
Nowhere is it noted that the GUS (and perhaps other cards) use as little
as 3% CPU time for high quality sound, and that other cards can use much
more.  Also related to this, the little chart they have of features fails
to mention which cards support compression (and what types).  Also,
although unrelated to the DSP, but left off the chart is the maximum RAM
each card is expandable to.

Finally, although they listed signal-to-noise ratios for all of the
cards, it would have been nice for them to show the roll-off charts for
all the boards, not just the Turtle Beach (best in this category) and the
Toptek (worst in this category).

Well, like I said, the review was overall good, but somewhat lacking in
my opinion...anyone else care to comment?

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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 17:57:04 +0100
From: STIAN HOELL <STIANH@sofus.hiof.no>
Subject: Theme Park

Anybody got a patch for the GUS to this great game? I can't seem to
get it to work. I even picked out my GUS here the other day, just to
listen how it yelled with my old SB 1.5. And it wasn't that bad
actually. So with the GUS it must be great. It's the DOS/4GW that
makes it all so comlicated. The machine keeps reseting everytime I
try to run either SBOS or MEGAEM. I'm going crazy. Please help.

STiAN


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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 94 11:08:07 EST
From: amix@VFL.Paramax.COM
Subject: Windows mixer problem

I think this problem has been discussed before, but I can't
find anyting about it.  When windows starts up, the left
volume is correct, but the right channel is at zero.
No matter how I save the setting in the mixer or edit
ini files or what ever, when windows starts, the right
volume is all the way down.  What do I do to fix this?

-Andy

 -----------------------------

Date: 30 Nov 94 06:15:57 EST
From: Jon Grieve <100102.145@compuserve.com>
Subject: Windows NT drivers for GUS
Message-ID: <941130111557_100102.145_EHK67-4@CompuServe.COM>

Jari Kivela wrote:
>> Once more: there is no Win NT drivers for GUS, and there probably never
>> will be, unless someone is going to make them him/herself.

About a month ago on Compu$erve, a group of NT developers offered to write NT
drivers for Gravis.  I can't remember whether Gravis took them up on their
offer, but I expect they started to discuss via private e-Mail.  Perhaps
Gravis
could comment on this.  I expect they're keeping quiet, as no sooner as they
admit "There will be NT drivers", people will start to hastle them for dates
and
they'll get just as - if not more - unpopular than when they said they weren't
going to do any at all.  It's all very OS/2, don't you think.

Jon

 -----------------------------

Date: Tue, 29 Nov 94 21:06:36 +0100
From: jpdgreve@vub.ac.be (De Greve Jean-Pierre)

Hi ... I'm experiencing trouble with WarCraft from Blizzard Entertainment :
When I choose MegaEm in General Midi & SoundBlaster, I get no
proper sound, and the general midi sounds instruments when they don't
have to be sounded (during gameplay, cymbals, gunshots...).
SBOS works fine, but offcourse GM would be better.
Each of the MDI & DIG files show as first characters 'AIL3MDI' or 'AIL3DIG'.
Substituting the drivers with the miles drivers doesn't work, since the game
uses DOS4GW extender.
A dump of the \WAR\DRIVERS\ directory :

WARCRAFT AD        2,682 11-23-94   4:03a
WARCRAFT OPL       2,682 11-23-94   4:03a
SBPRO    DIG       2,683 11-23-94   4:03a
SBLASTER MDI      14,956 11-23-94   4:03a
ADLIB    MDI      14,906 11-23-94   4:03a
ADLIBG   MDI      16,297 11-23-94   4:03a
PAS      MDI      15,345 11-23-94   4:03a
PASPLUS  MDI      16,378 11-23-94   4:03a
SBPRO1   MDI      15,295 11-23-94   4:03a
SBPRO2   MDI      16,356 11-23-94   4:03a
SBLASTER DIG       2,834 11-23-94   4:03a
SBAWE32  MDI      32,694 11-23-94   4:03a
SB16     DIG       2,756 11-23-94   4:03a
GF166    COM       5,493 11-12-93   6:32p
GF1DIGI  ADV       5,248 08-14-93   6:40a
GF1MIDI  ADV      10,816 08-14-93   6:40a
GF1DIGI  DIG       5,248 08-14-93   6:40a
GF1MIDI  MDI      10,816 08-14-93   6:40a

I hope anyone can help ...

Sincerely,

Jean-Pierre.

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Date: Wed Nov 30 09:37:05 PST 1994
From: gus-general-request@gaia.ucs.orst.edu (GUS Server)
Subject: GUS Daily Digest V16 #30

GUS Daily Digest            Wed, 30 Nov 94  9:37 PST     Volume 16: Issue  30

Today's Topics:
                            AU Sound file
                          CD Audio connector
                          gus+soundman wave?
                GUS and Adaptec 1542b SCSI controller
                      GUS and KQ7 under Win 3.1
                       GUS Daily Digest V16 #29
                    GUS drivers for Windows NT3.5
                       GUS MAX and Gateway 2000
                             HMI Drivers
                    Please gives us Warcraft-patch
                      Reading data from a CD ROM
                    Soundcard Reviews in PC World
                              Theme Park
                        Windows mixer problem
                      Windows NT drivers for GUS

Standard Info:
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	- Before you ask a question, please READ THE FAQ.

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Date: 30 Nov 94 06:15:55 EST
From: Jon Grieve <100102.145@compuserve.com>
Subject: AU Sound file
Message-ID: <941130111554_100102.145_EHK67-3@CompuServe.COM>

With regard to Nick Cook's question 'What format is an AU file?'; To read,
play
and convert .AU files under Windows, and to allow Mosaic to download and
handle
then correctly, you can get WHAM for Windows, which will read almost all sound
file types, or Cool Waveform Editor which handles even more.  Then in the
Mosaic
INI file, set the 'association' for .AU to either of these sound players, so
that once downloaded, the audio file appears in the correct player.  Simple.

Hope this helps,
Jon Grieve

 -----------------------------

Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 11:07:37 GMT
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: CD Audio connector

>How do you connect the CD audio cable to the GUS if it (connector) has only
>three plugs (after cover is removed from connector) which correspond to
>right, ground, and left.

You just need to cobble something together, or else get a different
cable. Whichever of your 3 wires is ground wants to be connected to
*both* the middle pins on the GUS, so you need to split it. Perhaps
the GUS pins are connected on the board, so connecting to just one
of them would do, but I don't know. It's common for these cables
to have 3 wires at the CD end, but 4 at the GUS.

 -----------------------------

Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 22:29:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Jason G Johnson <jgjohn01@homer.louisville.edu>
Subject: gus+soundman wave?

I am getting a gus soon and I want to know if the gus and a logitech soundman
wave can get along in one box. I would like to keep the soundman so I have a
soundblaster card and gmidi (ok i know the patches suck) with some stubbern
games. If it matters my smw is set up at port 220 irq 5 for sb and 330 irq2
for gmidi, anything I should change?

Btw has anyone got strike commander to work with gus
doing midi(mega-em) and a sound blaster taking the audio??


Thanks,

Jason

 -----------------------------

Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 11:03:12 GMT
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: GUS and Adaptec 1542b SCSI controller

>I have an Adaptec 1542B SCSI controller and a Ultrasound.  The 1542B
>is my boot device, and, while the card has strappable I/O addresses,
>the BIOS ROM is hard coded to use address 330.  This conflicts with
>one of the address on the Ultrasound, and causes problems (Sound
>Blaster emulation doesn't work.)

Is this right? Does a BIOS really use an IO address? I though that a
BIOS was likely to occupy a block of high numbered addresses somewhere
bwtween 640k and 1M. Or do I misunderstand - perhaps you mean that
you can move the card away from 330, but then the BIOS refuses to
use it? Perhaps Adaptec can supply a new BIOS ROM to plug in.

Anyway the problem is that 330 is the standard
address for some Roland contraption that you are trying to emulate,
so if you can't shift the SCSI card away from there, then you have
then danger of attempts to access your SCSI devices being intercepted
by the emulation program. Don't know about SBOS, but I thought the docs
for megaem discussed this, and that there was some kind of switch so
that it could attempt to distinguish between the uses of the same
address. There were also dire warnings about danger to the data on
your HD!

 -----------------------------

Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 17:42:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Hank Leukart <hleukart@shell.portal.com>
Subject: GUS and KQ7 under Win 3.1
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.941129174206.10463B-100000@jobe.shell.portal.com>

	Anyone get KQ7 and the GUS working under Windows?  All the TEST
hardware music works fine, but it won't play in the actual game.
-Hank

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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 17:54:22 -0500
From: Christian Brideau <brideau@revcan.ca>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V16 #29
Message-ID: <9411291754.aa12380@macdonald.revcan.ca>

Vince, you should REALLY do somthing about those idiots who post the
entire digest again and again and again...  I didn't read it entirely
because it was getting on my nerves.  And with a 2400 bps modem, you
can understand why.

Chris

 -----------------------------

Date: Wed, 30 Nov 94 09:26:29 EDT
From: "Fisher.G" <Fisher.G@as02.bull.oz.au>
Subject: GUS drivers for Windows NT3.5

Hi,
Are there any GUS drivers available for Windows NT3.5 ? If so, how would I
obtain them ?

Greg
(Melbourne - Victoria - Australia)

 -----------------------------

Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 11:23:06 GMT
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: GUS MAX and Gateway 2000

>I am almost sure that I am going to get a Gateway 2000 P4D-66, the
>regular desktop (that is, non-tower) system.  But before I do, I have two
>questions:
>1) Will my GUS MAX fit?
>2) Is the double speed CD-ROM it comes with compatible with the GUS MAX?

The P4D-66 claims to have 4 ISA slots (don't know whether 8/16 bit).
The old GUS was a large card - nearly full length - but possibly later
models are smaller. In any case, surely there must be several slots in
there which would accomodate it. Verify with Gateway before you buy.

Given that the CD is already in the computer, it must have it's own
interface card of some sort, or else be connected to a CD interface on
the motherboard. If you are thinking of ditching this
interface and connecting the drive to the GUS-MAX CD interface, then you
had better find out what model of CD it is. But there is *NO BENEFIT*
to doing this other than saving a slot in the machine. The only
connection you need between a CD drive and the GUS is an audio cable
from the back of the drive to the CD Audio pins on the GUS, and even
this isn't needed unless you intend to play CDs with audio tracks on
them (for example MicroSoft Beethoven etc. are mainly audio tracks,
while Encarta has no audio tracks at all - all its sounds are WAV
files or similar).

 -----------------------------

Date: 30 Nov 94 06:15:53 EST
From: Jon Grieve <100102.145@compuserve.com>
Subject: HMI Drivers
Message-ID: <941130111552_100102.145_EHK67-2@CompuServe.COM>

Ok, so I'm probably a little behind the times here.  Am I right in thinking
that
we - the humble GUS users - can't update HMI drivers ourselves?  My
understanding is that the various HMI drivers for the various supported sound
cards and 'compiled' into the .386 files, but also somehow compiled into the
games also.  Therefore, it's not possible to just copy around HMI*.386 files
from game-to-game to pick up the working GUS ones.

Is this true?  Are we at the mercy of the games companies to ship updated HMI
drivers sets when/if Gravis, for example, update their code?  There's so many
games coming out that use the HMI sets, and so many that didn't quite get the
Gravis drivers in.  Also, as usual, most demo's just have SB support to save
space.  It'd be nice to just whack in the HMI*.386 file set from a working
game,
and provide native GUS support to all these applications.

Just my thoughts.

Jon Grieve

 -----------------------------

Date: Tue, 29 Nov 94 23:20:58 MET
From: Broderdue <iqivar@hp1.cbs.dk>
Subject: Please gives us Warcraft-patch

Header says it all... Where is these rumoured AIL 3.0 drivers ??

	\////
	|. .|
	( - )   Broderdue

 -----------------------------

Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 10:54:01 GMT
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Reading data from a CD ROM

Wow! 180k of Digest including 7 (unless I lost count) copies of previous
Digests. I think it's a record. Glad I don't subscribe to this on my
dial-up account - can anyone with knowledge of mail headers arrange
that these bounces are lost, rather than re-mailed - perhaps have the
Digest sent out from a different address than the submission address?

Quite a bit lately about reading data direct from CD. Certainly there
is potential to take a sample from a CD and make it into a patch. Not
that making good patches is easy, even if you have a good sample.
The trouble is that is seems only some drives support this. Is there
any evidence of any programs that will read from a SCSI drive - in
particular a Tosh 4101 like I have?

 -----------------------------

Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 13:07:44 -0500 (EST)
From: "Christopher M. DiPierro" <cdipierr@wam.umd.edu>
Subject: Soundcard Reviews in PC World

I was just wondering if anyone else saw the soundcard reviews in PC
World's December 1994 issue.  They review the GUS Max, along with the
AWE32 and a few others.  While the review is perhaps one of the better
comparisons I've seen done in a magazine to date, I think they brushed
past some key issues.

First of all, they seem to use ROM based samples (used on certain cards)
and disk based RAM designs (like the GUS's) almost interchangably.  This
doesn't fully show the expandibility of the GUS and other cards based on
the same design.

Second, they mentioned briefly the DSP which they say increases the
card's speed.  However, I think they spent too little time on it.
Nowhere is it noted that the GUS (and perhaps other cards) use as little
as 3% CPU time for high quality sound, and that other cards can use much
more.  Also related to this, the little chart they have of features fails
to mention which cards support compression (and what types).  Also,
although unrelated to the DSP, but left off the chart is the maximum RAM
each card is expandable to.

Finally, although they listed signal-to-noise ratios for all of the
cards, it would have been nice for them to show the roll-off charts for
all the boards, not just the Turtle Beach (best in this category) and the
Toptek (worst in this category).

Well, like I said, the review was overall good, but somewhat lacking in
my opinion...anyone else care to comment?

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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 17:57:04 +0100
From: STIAN HOELL <STIANH@sofus.hiof.no>
Subject: Theme Park

Anybody got a patch for the GUS to this great game? I can't seem to
get it to work. I even picked out my GUS here the other day, just to
listen how it yelled with my old SB 1.5. And it wasn't that bad
actually. So with the GUS it must be great. It's the DOS/4GW that
makes it all so comlicated. The machine keeps reseting everytime I
try to run either SBOS or MEGAEM. I'm going crazy. Please help.

STiAN


-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
       Stian Hoell             Alias:     Epos of
       Stian.Hoell@Hiof.No                Terra Nova
       Student at                         P.o. Box 288
       Ostfold College                    1752 Halden, Norway.

                -+* IRMA 1000-medlem nr. 1125 *+-
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

 -----------------------------

Date: Wed, 30 Nov 94 11:08:07 EST
From: amix@VFL.Paramax.COM
Subject: Windows mixer problem

I think this problem has been discussed before, but I can't
find anyting about it.  When windows starts up, the left
volume is correct, but the right channel is at zero.
No matter how I save the setting in the mixer or edit
ini files or what ever, when windows starts, the right
volume is all the way down.  What do I do to fix this?

-Andy

 -----------------------------

Date: 30 Nov 94 06:15:57 EST
From: Jon Grieve <100102.145@compuserve.com>
Subject: Windows NT drivers for GUS
Message-ID: <941130111557_100102.145_EHK67-4@CompuServe.COM>

Jari Kivela wrote:
>> Once more: there is no Win NT drivers for GUS, and there probably never
>> will be, unless someone is going to make them him/herself.

About a month ago on Compu$erve, a group of NT developers offered to write NT
drivers for Gravis.  I can't remember whether Gravis took them up on their
offer, but I expect they started to discuss via private e-Mail.  Perhaps
Gravis
could comment on this.  I expect they're keeping quiet, as no sooner as they
admit "There will be NT drivers", people will start to hastle them for dates
and
they'll get just as - if not more - unpopular than when they said they weren't
going to do any at all.  It's all very OS/2, don't you think.

Jon

 -----------------------------

Date: Tue, 29 Nov 94 21:06:36 +0100
From: jpdgreve@vub.ac.be (De Greve Jean-Pierre)

Hi ... I'm experiencing trouble with WarCraft from Blizzard Entertainment :
When I choose MegaEm in General Midi & SoundBlaster, I get no
proper sound, and the general midi sounds instruments when they don't
have to be sounded (during gameplay, cymbals, gunshots...).
SBOS works fine, but offcourse GM would be better.
Each of the MDI & DIG files show as first characters 'AIL3MDI' or 'AIL3DIG'.
Substituting the drivers with the miles drivers doesn't work, since the game
uses DOS4GW extender.
A dump of the \WAR\DRIVERS\ directory :

WARCRAFT AD        2,682 11-23-94   4:03a
WARCRAFT OPL       2,682 11-23-94   4:03a
SBPRO    DIG       2,683 11-23-94   4:03a
SBLASTER MDI      14,956 11-23-94   4:03a
ADLIB    MDI      14,906 11-23-94   4:03a
ADLIBG   MDI      16,297 11-23-94   4:03a
PAS      MDI      15,345 11-23-94   4:03a
PASPLUS  MDI      16,378 11-23-94   4:03a
SBPRO1   MDI      15,295 11-23-94   4:03a
SBPRO2   MDI      16,356 11-23-94   4:03a
SBLASTER DIG       2,834 11-23-94   4:03a
SBAWE32  MDI      32,694 11-23-94   4:03a
SB16     DIG       2,756 11-23-94   4:03a
GF166    COM       5,493 11-12-93   6:32p
GF1DIGI  ADV       5,248 08-14-93   6:40a
GF1MIDI  ADV      10,816 08-14-93   6:40a
GF1DIGI  DIG       5,248 08-14-93   6:40a
GF1MIDI  MDI      10,816 08-14-93   6:40a

I hope anyone can help ...

Sincerely,

Jean-Pierre.

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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 94 13:57:01 EST
From: Phil Longstaff <phill@dnbf01.bram.cdx.mot.com>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V16 #30

GUS Server wrote:
> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 17:54:22 -0500
> From: Christian Brideau <brideau@revcan.ca>
> Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V16 #29
> Message-ID: <9411291754.aa12380@macdonald.revcan.ca>
>
> Vince, you should REALLY do somthing about those idiots who post the
> entire digest again and again and again...  I didn't read it entirely
> because it was getting on my nerves.  And with a 2400 bps modem, you
> can understand why.
>
> Chris
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 10:54:01 GMT
> From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: Reading data from a CD ROM
>
> Wow! 180k of Digest including 7 (unless I lost count) copies of previous
> Digests. I think it's a record. Glad I don't subscribe to this on my
> dial-up account - can anyone with knowledge of mail headers arrange
> that these bounces are lost, rather than re-mailed - perhaps have the
> Digest sent out from a different address than the submission address?

I don't like that idea because it makes it more difficult to reply.  To
generate this, I just hit the 'r' key, deleted the parts I didn't need (that
is what the bozos^H^H^H^H^Hpeople who resubmit the whole digest need to do),
and typed this in.  Quite simple, really.

Phil
--
Phil Longstaff, Motorola ISG, Mississauga Ontario

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Date: Wed Nov 30 09:37:05 PST 1994
From: gus-general-request@gaia.ucs.orst.edu (GUS Server)
Subject: GUS Daily Digest V16 #30

GUS Daily Digest            Wed, 30 Nov 94  9:37 PST     Volume 16: Issue  30

Today's Topics:
                            AU Sound file
                          CD Audio connector
                          gus+soundman wave?
                GUS and Adaptec 1542b SCSI controller
                      GUS and KQ7 under Win 3.1
                       GUS Daily Digest V16 #29
                    GUS drivers for Windows NT3.5
                       GUS MAX and Gateway 2000
                             HMI Drivers
                    Please gives us Warcraft-patch
                      Reading data from a CD ROM
                    Soundcard Reviews in PC World
                              Theme Park
                        Windows mixer problem
                      Windows NT drivers for GUS

Standard Info:
	- Meta-info about the GUS can be found at the end of the Digest.
	- Before you ask a question, please READ THE FAQ.

 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: 30 Nov 94 06:15:55 EST
From: Jon Grieve <100102.145@compuserve.com>
Subject: AU Sound file
Message-ID: <941130111554_100102.145_EHK67-3@CompuServe.COM>

With regard to Nick Cook's question 'What format is an AU file?'; To read,
play
and convert .AU files under Windows, and to allow Mosaic to download and
handle
then correctly, you can get WHAM for Windows, which will read almost all sound
file types, or Cool Waveform Editor which handles even more.  Then in the
Mosaic
INI file, set the 'association' for .AU to either of these sound players, so
that once downloaded, the audio file appears in the correct player.  Simple.

Hope this helps,
Jon Grieve

 -----------------------------

Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 11:07:37 GMT
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: CD Audio connector

>How do you connect the CD audio cable to the GUS if it (connector) has only
>three plugs (after cover is removed from connector) which correspond to
>right, ground, and left.

You just need to cobble something together, or else get a different
cable. Whichever of your 3 wires is ground wants to be connected to
*both* the middle pins on the GUS, so you need to split it. Perhaps
the GUS pins are connected on the board, so connecting to just one
of them would do, but I don't know. It's common for these cables
to have 3 wires at the CD end, but 4 at the GUS.

 -----------------------------

Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 22:29:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Jason G Johnson <jgjohn01@homer.louisville.edu>
Subject: gus+soundman wave?

I am getting a gus soon and I want to know if the gus and a logitech soundman
wave can get along in one box. I would like to keep the soundman so I have a
soundblaster card and gmidi (ok i know the patches suck) with some stubbern
games. If it matters my smw is set up at port 220 irq 5 for sb and 330 irq2
for gmidi, anything I should change?

Btw has anyone got strike commander to work with gus
doing midi(mega-em) and a sound blaster taking the audio??


Thanks,

Jason

 -----------------------------

Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 11:03:12 GMT
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: GUS and Adaptec 1542b SCSI controller

>I have an Adaptec 1542B SCSI controller and a Ultrasound.  The 1542B
>is my boot device, and, while the card has strappable I/O addresses,
>the BIOS ROM is hard coded to use address 330.  This conflicts with
>one of the address on the Ultrasound, and causes problems (Sound
>Blaster emulation doesn't work.)

Is this right? Does a BIOS really use an IO address? I though that a
BIOS was likely to occupy a block of high numbered addresses somewhere
bwtween 640k and 1M. Or do I misunderstand - perhaps you mean that
you can move the card away from 330, but then the BIOS refuses to
use it? Perhaps Adaptec can supply a new BIOS ROM to plug in.

Anyway the problem is that 330 is the standard
address for some Roland contraption that you are trying to emulate,
so if you can't shift the SCSI card away from there, then you have
then danger of attempts to access your SCSI devices being intercepted
by the emulation program. Don't know about SBOS, but I thought the docs
for megaem discussed this, and that there was some kind of switch so
that it could attempt to distinguish between the uses of the same
address. There were also dire warnings about danger to the data on
your HD!

 -----------------------------

Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 17:42:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Hank Leukart <hleukart@shell.portal.com>
Subject: GUS and KQ7 under Win 3.1
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.941129174206.10463B-100000@jobe.shell.portal.com>

	Anyone get KQ7 and the GUS working under Windows?  All the TEST
hardware music works fine, but it won't play in the actual game.
-Hank

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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 17:54:22 -0500
From: Christian Brideau <brideau@revcan.ca>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V16 #29
Message-ID: <9411291754.aa12380@macdonald.revcan.ca>

Vince, you should REALLY do somthing about those idiots who post the
entire digest again and again and again...  I didn't read it entirely
because it was getting on my nerves.  And with a 2400 bps modem, you
can understand why.

Chris

 -----------------------------

Date: Wed, 30 Nov 94 09:26:29 EDT
From: "Fisher.G" <Fisher.G@as02.bull.oz.au>
Subject: GUS drivers for Windows NT3.5

Hi,
Are there any GUS drivers available for Windows NT3.5 ? If so, how would I
obtain them ?

Greg
(Melbourne - Victoria - Australia)

 -----------------------------

Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 11:23:06 GMT
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: GUS MAX and Gateway 2000

>I am almost sure that I am going to get a Gateway 2000 P4D-66, the
>regular desktop (that is, non-tower) system.  But before I do, I have two
>questions:
>1) Will my GUS MAX fit?
>2) Is the double speed CD-ROM it comes with compatible with the GUS MAX?

The P4D-66 claims to have 4 ISA slots (don't know whether 8/16 bit).
The old GUS was a large card - nearly full length - but possibly later
models are smaller. In any case, surely there must be several slots in
there which would accomodate it. Verify with Gateway before you buy.

Given that the CD is already in the computer, it must have it's own
interface card of some sort, or else be connected to a CD interface on
the motherboard. If you are thinking of ditching this
interface and connecting the drive to the GUS-MAX CD interface, then you
had better find out what model of CD it is. But there is *NO BENEFIT*
to doing this other than saving a slot in the machine. The only
connection you need between a CD drive and the GUS is an audio cable
from the back of the drive to the CD Audio pins on the GUS, and even
this isn't needed unless you intend to play CDs with audio tracks on
them (for example MicroSoft Beethoven etc. are mainly audio tracks,
while Encarta has no audio tracks at all - all its sounds are WAV
files or similar).

 -----------------------------

Date: 30 Nov 94 06:15:53 EST
From: Jon Grieve <100102.145@compuserve.com>
Subject: HMI Drivers
Message-ID: <941130111552_100102.145_EHK67-2@CompuServe.COM>

Ok, so I'm probably a little behind the times here.  Am I right in thinking
that
we - the humble GUS users - can't update HMI drivers ourselves?  My
understanding is that the various HMI drivers for the various supported sound
cards and 'compiled' into the .386 files, but also somehow compiled into the
games also.  Therefore, it's not possible to just copy around HMI*.386 files
from game-to-game to pick up the working GUS ones.

Is this true?  Are we at the mercy of the games companies to ship updated HMI
drivers sets when/if Gravis, for example, update their code?  There's so many
games coming out that use the HMI sets, and so many that didn't quite get the
Gravis drivers in.  Also, as usual, most demo's just have SB support to save
space.  It'd be nice to just whack in the HMI*.386 file set from a working
game,
and provide native GUS support to all these applications.

Just my thoughts.

Jon Grieve

 -----------------------------

Date: Tue, 29 Nov 94 23:20:58 MET
From: Broderdue <iqivar@hp1.cbs.dk>
Subject: Please gives us Warcraft-patch

Header says it all... Where is these rumoured AIL 3.0 drivers ??

	\////
	|. .|
	( - )   Broderdue

 -----------------------------

Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 10:54:01 GMT
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Reading data from a CD ROM

Wow! 180k of Digest including 7 (unless I lost count) copies of previous
Digests. I think it's a record. Glad I don't subscribe to this on my
dial-up account - can anyone with knowledge of mail headers arrange
that these bounces are lost, rather than re-mailed - perhaps have the
Digest sent out from a different address than the submission address?

Quite a bit lately about reading data direct from CD. Certainly there
is potential to take a sample from a CD and make it into a patch. Not
that making good patches is easy, even if you have a good sample.
The trouble is that is seems only some drives support this. Is there
any evidence of any programs that will read from a SCSI drive - in
particular a Tosh 4101 like I have?

 -----------------------------

Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 13:07:44 -0500 (EST)
From: "Christopher M. DiPierro" <cdipierr@wam.umd.edu>
Subject: Soundcard Reviews in PC World

I was just wondering if anyone else saw the soundcard reviews in PC
World's December 1994 issue.  They review the GUS Max, along with the
AWE32 and a few others.  While the review is perhaps one of the better
comparisons I've seen done in a magazine to date, I think they brushed
past some key issues.

First of all, they seem to use ROM based samples (used on certain cards)
and disk based RAM designs (like the GUS's) almost interchangably.  This
doesn't fully show the expandibility of the GUS and other cards based on
the same design.

Second, they mentioned briefly the DSP which they say increases the
card's speed.  However, I think they spent too little time on it.
Nowhere is it noted that the GUS (and perhaps other cards) use as little
as 3% CPU time for high quality sound, and that other cards can use much
more.  Also related to this, the little chart they have of features fails
to mention which cards support compression (and what types).  Also,
although unrelated to the DSP, but left off the chart is the maximum RAM
each card is expandable to.

Finally, although they listed signal-to-noise ratios for all of the
cards, it would have been nice for them to show the roll-off charts for
all the boards, not just the Turtle Beach (best in this category) and the
Toptek (worst in this category).

Well, like I said, the review was overall good, but somewhat lacking in
my opinion...anyone else care to comment?

 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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University of Maryland at College Park | CS && Space == cool == -270 C
Gravis Ultrasound (GUS) FAQ Maintainer | Current GUS FAQ is: v2.02 [94/11/16]
To quote IBM: "Think"                  | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~cdipierr/
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 -----------------------------

Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 17:57:04 +0100
From: STIAN HOELL <STIANH@sofus.hiof.no>
Subject: Theme Park

Anybody got a patch for the GUS to this great game? I can't seem to
get it to work. I even picked out my GUS here the other day, just to
listen how it yelled with my old SB 1.5. And it wasn't that bad
actually. So with the GUS it must be great. It's the DOS/4GW that
makes it all so comlicated. The machine keeps reseting everytime I
try to run either SBOS or MEGAEM. I'm going crazy. Please help.

STiAN


-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
       Stian Hoell             Alias:     Epos of
       Stian.Hoell@Hiof.No                Terra Nova
       Student at                         P.o. Box 288
       Ostfold College                    1752 Halden, Norway.

                -+* IRMA 1000-medlem nr. 1125 *+-
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 94 11:08:07 EST
From: amix@VFL.Paramax.COM
Subject: Windows mixer problem

I think this problem has been discussed before, but I can't
find anyting about it.  When windows starts up, the left
volume is correct, but the right channel is at zero.
No matter how I save the setting in the mixer or edit
ini files or what ever, when windows starts, the right
volume is all the way down.  What do I do to fix this?

-Andy

 -----------------------------

Date: 30 Nov 94 06:15:57 EST
From: Jon Grieve <100102.145@compuserve.com>
Subject: Windows NT drivers for GUS
Message-ID: <941130111557_100102.145_EHK67-4@CompuServe.COM>

Jari Kivela wrote:
>> Once more: there is no Win NT drivers for GUS, and there probably never
>> will be, unless someone is going to make them him/herself.

About a month ago on Compu$erve, a group of NT developers offered to write NT
drivers for Gravis.  I can't remember whether Gravis took them up on their
offer, but I expect they started to discuss via private e-Mail.  Perhaps
Gravis
could comment on this.  I expect they're keeping quiet, as no sooner as they
admit "There will be NT drivers", people will start to hastle them for dates
and
they'll get just as - if not more - unpopular than when they said they weren't
going to do any at all.  It's all very OS/2, don't you think.

Jon

 -----------------------------

Date: Tue, 29 Nov 94 21:06:36 +0100
From: jpdgreve@vub.ac.be (De Greve Jean-Pierre)

Hi ... I'm experiencing trouble with WarCraft from Blizzard Entertainment :
When I choose MegaEm in General Midi & SoundBlaster, I get no
proper sound, and the general midi sounds instruments when they don't
have to be sounded (during gameplay, cymbals, gunshots...).
SBOS works fine, but offcourse GM would be better.
Each of the MDI & DIG files show as first characters 'AIL3MDI' or 'AIL3DIG'.
Substituting the drivers with the miles drivers doesn't work, since the game
uses DOS4GW extender.
A dump of the \WAR\DRIVERS\ directory :

WARCRAFT AD        2,682 11-23-94   4:03a
WARCRAFT OPL       2,682 11-23-94   4:03a
SBPRO    DIG       2,683 11-23-94   4:03a
SBLASTER MDI      14,956 11-23-94   4:03a
ADLIB    MDI      14,906 11-23-94   4:03a
ADLIBG   MDI      16,297 11-23-94   4:03a
PAS      MDI      15,345 11-23-94   4:03a
PASPLUS  MDI      16,378 11-23-94   4:03a
SBPRO1   MDI      15,295 11-23-94   4:03a
SBPRO2   MDI      16,356 11-23-94   4:03a
SBLASTER DIG       2,834 11-23-94   4:03a
SBAWE32  MDI      32,694 11-23-94   4:03a
SB16     DIG       2,756 11-23-94   4:03a
GF166    COM       5,493 11-12-93   6:32p
GF1DIGI  ADV       5,248 08-14-93   6:40a
GF1MIDI  ADV      10,816 08-14-93   6:40a
GF1DIGI  DIG       5,248 08-14-93   6:40a
GF1MIDI  MDI      10,816 08-14-93   6:40a

I hope anyone can help ...

Sincerely,

Jean-Pierre.

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Date: Wed Nov 30 09:37:05 PST 1994
From: gus-general-request@gaia.ucs.orst.edu (GUS Server)
Subject: GUS Daily Digest V16 #30

GUS Daily Digest            Wed, 30 Nov 94  9:37 PST     Volume 16: Issue  30

Today's Topics:
                            AU Sound file
                          CD Audio connector
                          gus+soundman wave?
                GUS and Adaptec 1542b SCSI controller
                      GUS and KQ7 under Win 3.1
                       GUS Daily Digest V16 #29
                    GUS drivers for Windows NT3.5
                       GUS MAX and Gateway 2000
                             HMI Drivers
                    Please gives us Warcraft-patch
                      Reading data from a CD ROM
                    Soundcard Reviews in PC World
                              Theme Park
                        Windows mixer problem
                      Windows NT drivers for GUS

Standard Info:
	- Meta-info about the GUS can be found at the end of the Digest.
	- Before you ask a question, please READ THE FAQ.

 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: 30 Nov 94 06:15:55 EST
From: Jon Grieve <100102.145@compuserve.com>
Subject: AU Sound file
Message-ID: <941130111554_100102.145_EHK67-3@CompuServe.COM>

With regard to Nick Cook's question 'What format is an AU file?'; To read,
play
and convert .AU files under Windows, and to allow Mosaic to download and
handle
then correctly, you can get WHAM for Windows, which will read almost all sound
file types, or Cool Waveform Editor which handles even more.  T
en in the Mosaic
INI file, set the 'association' for .AU to either of these sound players, so
that once downloaded, the audio file appears in the correct player.  Simple.

Hope this helps,
Jon Grieve

 -----------------------------

Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 11:07:37 GMT
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: CD Audio connector

>How do you connect the CD audio cable to the GUS if it (connector) has only
>three plugs (after cover is removed from connector) which correspond to
>right, ground, and left.

You just need to cobble something together, or else get a different
cable. Whichever of your 3 wires is ground wants to be connected to
*both* the middle pins on the GUS, so you need to split it. Perhaps
the GUS pins are connected on the board, so connecting to just one
of them would do, but I don't know. It's common for these cables
to have 3 wires at the CD end, but 4 at the GUS.

 -----------------------------

Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 22:29:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Jason G Johnson <jgjohn01@homer.louisville.edu>
Subject: gus+soundman wave?

I am getting a gus soon and I want to know if the gus and a logitech soundman
wave can get along in one box. I would like to keep the soundman so I have a
soundblaster card and gmidi (ok i know the patches suck) with some stubbern
games. If it matters my smw is set up at port 220 irq 5 for sb and 330 irq2
for gmidi, anything I should change?

Btw has anyone got strike commander to work with gus
doing midi(mega-em) and a sound blaster taking the audio??


Thanks,

Jason

 -----------------------------

Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 11:03:12 GMT
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: GUS and Adaptec 1542b SCSI controller

>I have an Adaptec 1542B SCSI controller and a Ultrasound.  The 1542B
>is my boot device, and, while the card has strappable I/O addresses,
>the BIOS ROM is hard coded to use address 330.  This conflicts with
>one of the address on the Ultrasound, and causes problems (Sound
>Blaster emulation doesn't work.)

Is this right? Does a BIOS really use an IO address? I though that a
BIOS was likely to occupy a block of high numbered addresses somewhere
bwtween 640k and 1M. Or do I misunderstand - perhaps you mean that
you can move the card away from 330, but then the BIOS refuses to
use it? Perhaps Adaptec can supply a new BIOS ROM to plug in.

Anyway the problem is that 330 is the standard
address for some Roland contraption that you are trying to emulate,
so if you can't shift the SCSI card away from there, then you have
then danger of attempts to access your SCSI devices being intercepted
by the emulation program. Don't know about SBOS, but I thought the docs
for megaem discussed this, and that there was some kind of switch so
that it could attempt to distinguish between the uses of the same
address. There were also dire warnings about danger to the data on
your HD!

 -----------------------------

Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 17:42:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Hank Leukart <hleukart@shell.portal.com>
Subject: GUS and KQ7 under Win 3.1
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.941129174206.10463B-100000@jobe.shell.portal.com>

	Anyone get KQ7 and the GUS working under Windows?  All the TEST
hardware music works fine, but it won't play in the actual game.
-Hank

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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 17:54:22 -0500
From: Christian Brideau <brideau@revcan.ca>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V16 #29
Message-ID: <9411291754.aa12380@macdonald.revcan.ca>

Vince, you should REALLY do somthing about those idiots who post the
entire digest again and again and again...  I didn't read it entirely
because it was getting on my nerves.  And with a 2400 bps modem, you
can understand why.

Chris

 -----------------------------

Date: Wed, 30 Nov 94 09:26:29 EDT
From: "Fisher.G" <Fisher.G@as02.bull.oz.au>
Subject: GUS drivers for Windows NT3.5

Hi,
Are there any GUS drivers available for Windows NT3.5 ? If so, how would I
obtain them ?

Greg
(Melbourne - Victoria - Australia)

 -----------------------------

Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 11:23:06 GMT
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: GUS MAX and Gateway 2000

>I am almost sure that I am going to get a Gateway 2000 P4D-66, the
>regular desktop (that is, non-tower) system.  But before I do, I have two
>questions:
>1) Will my GUS MAX fit?
>2) Is the double speed CD-ROM it comes with compatible with the GUS MAX?

The P4D-66 claims to have 4 ISA slots (don't know whether 8/16 bit).
The old GUS was a large card - nearly full length - but possibly later
models are smaller. In any case, surely there must be several slots in
there which would accomodate it. Verify with Gateway before you buy.

Given that the CD is already in the computer, it must have it's own
interface card of some sort, or else be connected to a CD interface on
the motherboard. If you are thinking of ditching this
interface and connecting the drive to the GUS-MAX CD interface, then you
had better find out what model of CD it is. But there is *NO BENEFIT*
to doing this other than saving a slot in the machine. The only
connection you need between a CD drive and the GUS is an audio cable
from the back of the drive to the CD Audio pins on the GUS, and even
this isn't needed unless you intend to play CDs with audio tracks on
them (for example MicroSoft Beethoven etc. are mainly audio tracks,
while Encarta has no audio tracks at all - all its sounds are WAV
files or similar).

 -----------------------------

Date: 30 Nov 94 06:15:53 EST
From: Jon Grieve <100102.145@compuserve.com>
Subject: HMI Drivers
Message-ID: <941130111552_100102.145_EHK67-2@CompuServe.COM>

Ok, so I'm probably a little behind the times here.  Am I right in thinking
that
we - the humble GUS users - can't update HMI drivers ourselves?  My
understanding is that the various HMI drivers for the various supported sound
cards and 'compiled' into the .386 files, but also somehow compiled into the
games also.  Therefore, it's not possible to just copy around HMI*.386 files
from game-to-game to pick up the working GUS ones.

Is this true?  Are we at the mercy of the games companies to ship updated HMI
drivers sets when/if Gravis, for example, update their code?  There's so many
games coming out that use the HMI sets, and so many that didn't quite get the
Gravis drivers in.  Also, as usual, most demo's just have SB support to save
space.  It'd be nice to just whack in the HMI*.386 file set from a working
game,
and provide native GUS support to all these applications.

Just my thoughts.

Jon Grieve

 -----------------------------

Date: Tue, 29 Nov 94 23:20:58 MET
From: Broderdue <iqivar@hp1.cbs.dk>
Subject: Please gives us Warcraft-patch

Header says it all... Where is these rumoured AIL 3.0 drivers ??

	\////
	|. .|
	( - )   Broderdue

 -----------------------------

Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 10:54:01 GMT
From: Clarke Brunt <CLARKE@lsl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Reading data from a CD ROM

Wow! 180k of Digest including 7 (unless I lost count) copies of previous
Digests. I think it's a record. Glad I don't subscribe to this on my
dial-up account - can anyone with knowledge of mail headers arrange
that these bounces are lost, rather than re-mailed - perhaps have the
Digest sent out from a different address than the submission address?

Quite a bit lately about reading data direct from CD. Certainly there
is potential to take a sample from a CD and make it into a patch. Not
that making good patches is easy, even if you have a good sample.
The trouble is that is seems only some drives support this. Is there
any evidence of any programs that will read from a SCSI drive - in
particular a Tosh 4101 like I have?

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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 13:07:44 -0500 (EST)
From: "Christopher M. DiPierro" <cdipierr@wam.umd.edu>
Subject: Soundcard Reviews in PC World

I was just wondering if anyone else saw the soundcard reviews in PC
World's December 1994 issue.  They review the GUS Max, along with the
AWE32 and a few others.  While the review is perhaps one of the better
comparisons I've seen done in a magazine to date, I think they brushed
past some key issues.

First of all, they seem to use ROM based samples (used on certain cards)
and disk based RAM designs (like the GUS's) almost interchangably.  This
doesn't fully show the expandibility of the GUS and other cards based on
the same design.

Second, they mentioned briefly the DSP which they say increases the
card's speed.  However, I think they spent too little time on it.
Nowhere is it noted that the GUS (and perhaps other cards) use as little
as 3% CPU time for high quality sound, and that other cards can use much
more.  Also related to this, the little chart they have of features fails
to mention which cards support compression (and what types).  Also,
although unrelated to the DSP, but left off the chart is the maximum RAM
each card is expandable to.

Finally, although they listed signal-to-noise ratios for all of the
cards, it would have been nice for them to show the roll-off charts for
all the boards, not just the Turtle Beach (best in this category) and the
Toptek (worst in this category).

Well, like I said, the review was overall good, but somewhat lacking in
my opinion...anyone else care to comment?

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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 17:57:04 +0100
From: STIAN HOELL <STIANH@sofus.hiof.no>
Subject: Theme Park

Anybody got a patch for the GUS to this great game? I can't seem to
get it to work. I even picked out my GUS here the other day, just to
listen how it yelled with my old SB 1.5. And it wasn't that bad
actually. So with the GUS it must be great. It's the DOS/4GW that
makes it all so comlicated. The machine keeps reseting everytime I
try to run either SBOS or MEGAEM. I'm going crazy. Please help.

STiAN


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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 94 11:08:07 EST
From: amix@VFL.Paramax.COM
Subject: Windows mixer problem

I think this problem has been discussed before, but I can't
find anyting about it.  When windows starts up, the left
volume is correct, but the right channel is at zero.
No matter how I save the setting in the mixer or edit
ini files or what ever, when windows starts, the right
volume is all the way down.  What do I do to fix this?

-Andy

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Date: 30 Nov 94 06:15:57 EST
From: Jon Grieve <100102.145@compuserve.com>
Subject: Windows NT drivers for GUS
Message-ID: <941130111557_100102.145_EHK67-4@CompuServe.COM>

Jari Kivela wrote:
>> Once more: there is no Win NT drivers for GUS, and there probably never
>> will be, unless someone is going to make them him/herself.

About a month ago on Compu$erve, a group of NT developers offered to write NT
drivers for Gravis.  I can't remember whether Gravis took them up on their
offer, but I expect they started to discuss via private e-Mail.  Perhaps
Gravis
could comment on this.  I expect they're keeping quiet, as no sooner as they
admit "There will be NT drivers", people will start to hastle them for dates
and
they'll get just as - if not more - unpopular than when they said they weren't
going to do any at all.  It's all very OS/2, don't you think.

Jon

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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 94 21:06:36 +0100
From: jpdgreve@vub.ac.be (De Greve Jean-Pierre)

Hi ... I'm experiencing trouble with WarCraft from Blizzard Entertainment :
When I choose MegaEm in General Midi & SoundBlaster, I get no
proper sound, and the general midi sounds instruments when they don't
have to be sounded (during gameplay, cymbals, gunshots...).
SBOS works fine, but offcourse GM would be better.
Each of the MDI & DIG files show as first characters 'AIL3MDI' or 'AIL3DIG'.
Substituting the drivers with the miles drivers doesn't work, since the game
uses DOS4GW extender.
A dump of the \WAR\DRIVERS\ directory :

WARCRAFT AD        2,682 11-23-94   4:03a
WARCRAFT OPL       2,682 11-23-94   4:03a
SBPRO    DIG       2,683 11-23-94   4:03a
SBLASTER MDI      14,956 11-23-94   4:03a
ADLIB    MDI      14,906 11-23-94   4:03a
ADLIBG   MDI      16,297 11-23-94   4:03a
PAS      MDI      15,345 11-23-94   4:03a
PASPLUS  MDI      16,378 11-23-94   4:03a
SBPRO1   MDI      15,295 11-23-94   4:03a
SBPRO2   MDI      16,356 11-23-94   4:03a
SBLASTER DIG       2,834 11-23-94   4:03a
SBAWE32  MDI      32,694 11-23-94   4:03a
SB16     DIG       2,756 11-23-94   4:03a
GF166    COM       5,493 11-12-93   6:32p
GF1DIGI  ADV       5,248 08-14-93   6:40a
GF1MIDI  ADV      10,816 08-14-93   6:40a
GF1DIGI  DIG       5,248 08-14-93   6:40a
GF1MIDI  MDI      10,816 08-14-93   6:40a

I hope anyone can help ...

Sincerely,

Jean-Pierre.

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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 16:43:13 -0500
From: GravisTech@aol.com
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V16 #30

>How do you connect the CD audio cable to the GUS if it (connector) has only
>three plugs (after cover is removed from connector) which correspond to
>right, ground, and left.
_________________________________________________
The >>Connectiosn on the GUS go as follows:
4 pin Left Gnd. Gnd. Right (Note: The two gnds are connected on the board)
3 pin >>Left Gnd. Right

You just need to make sure that your audio form the cd-rom is going to these
connectors on the appropriate pins, if you need a connector to accomplish

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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 94 14:35:18 MST
From: dchow@stu.athabascau.ca (Donald Chow)
Subject: Midas Sound System for Windows?

  Has anyone gotten Midas for windows to work correctly for them?  I'm running
a 1meg rev.3.4 GUS w/WFWG3.11 and Qemm7.5, and when I exit windows, or try to,
it hangs, and the exit sound gets played in sloooooow motion, then some
mod that I'd tried to load earlier, also in sloooooow motion.

  When I tried to load a mod, it says that there's an error with initializing
the MCI device or something like that, and suggests that I restart Windows,
but is locks ond goes funky on me.


Don

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Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 04:24:40 -0800
From: dross@ultrix5.cs.csubak.edu (dean ross-smith)
Subject: nascar

Got Nascar racing from papyrus today.  Works wonderful w/ my v2.4 GUS.  Uses
the new HMI drivers in stereo or mono.  According to Papyrus' tech support,
the sound is all 8-bit tho.  Too bad huh?

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Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 15:31:31 +1100
From: "M. Wong" <mkkwo1@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au>
Subject: OS/2 drivers?

	Hi, it is now December and still no word on the protected Mega-EM,
and more important, the OS/2 drivers. Let me guess, the OS/2 drivers
will be out "REAL SOON NOW (TM)" right? 

	Can someone at Gravis post an OFFICIAL statement regarding the
state (or none state) of the OS/2 drivers so that I can quit waiting and
hoping? If there is no drivers, fine, say it and I'll dump my GUS in a
flash and get a card that is supported.

	I will *NOT* let a card dictate my operating system. I know, I
know, there are the Manley drivers but I want MIDI in PM.

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Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 06:31:19 -0700
From: "Danny C. Gash" <sniper@bslnet.com>
Subject: problem with getting MEGAEM to work with EarthSiege for CD-ROM

            hmm I have Earthsiege for CD-ROM and I am trying to use
            MT-32 Emulation... hmm I do megaem -sboff -noems and then
            it says emulator installed and then I do emuset -mt for MT-32
            emulation...ok now after I do that I go to my EarthSiege 
            directory and type soundset and then for midi sound device
            I pick MT-32 but then when I test the settings it gives me
            an error and says this:


                        ERROR:


             SOS: Dectection System Failed to Find Hardware
             An error occured while testing the playback for the
             selected driver. Verify the settings and driver are
             correct.


            ok that's what it says :(.. hmm so I have no idea why it
            doesn't want to work so please get back to this post as 
            soon as possible.. :) oh and by the way I have emuset megaem
            emulation control version 2.03 if that would have anything
            to do with it

                                  Sniper

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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 15:57:51 -0800 (PST)
From: "Peter C. Chien Jr." <pchienjr@ocf.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: Quest for Glory IV

Can someone with a patch for Quest for Glory IV upload it to epas?  
Thanks.  I already have the Sierra 32-bit sound and MIDI patch for the GUS, 
but I need the specific fix for the game itself.  This game is 
very buggy, as I can only get by certain areas of the game with the 
GUSDAC disabled (using no sound effects).  My friend's computer with a 
Pro Audio also locks up, so the bugs must be more general.  Please upload 
the Quest for Glory fix to epas, thanks.
					Peter 

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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 94 19:19:27 +0100
From: jpdgreve@vub.ac.be (De Greve Jean-Pierre)

Hi, I got a good friend who bought himself a GUS MAX. I didn't send in my reg. card yet, but he sent his to Gravis in the Netherlands. After 1.5 month he still didn't receive anything from Gravis. What's wrong here ? We're getting pretty annoyed by the
bad Long Distance support. We tried to reach Gravis over the normal voice phone via an AT&T collect call, but AT&T doesn't connect to Canada :-/.
So we pulled ourselves together and tried via MCI. No result.

I hope anyone can help us with this little problem. I know enough people who lost their registration chance like this. Why does Gravis does not put up an internet server for Digital Registration ?

Jean-Pierre.

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