From mailserv@gaia.ucs.orst.edu Sat Dec  3 12:28:01 1994
Precedence: Bulk
Date: Sat Dec  3 09:42:05 PST 1994
From: gus-general-request@gaia.ucs.orst.edu (GUS Server)
Reply-To: gus-general@gaia.ucs.orst.edu (GUS Daily Digest)
Subject: GUS Daily Digest V17 #3

GUS Daily Digest            Sat, 3 Dec 94  9:42 PST      Volume 17: Issue   3 

Today's Topics:
                       ail 3.0 drivers on epas
                   ALL RIGHT YOU MORONS, LISTEN UP!
             Apologies about the massive flood of digests
              Excuse me, but what the H--- is going on!
                   GUS Daily Digest V17 #2 (4 msgs)
                      Inertia Player & OS/2 Warp
                 Multiple digests and OS/2 drivers...
                                 OK..

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: Fri, 2 Dec 94 22:16:03 MET
From: Broderdue <iqivar@hp1.cbs.dk>
Subject: ail 3.0 drivers on epas

Adv Gravis HQ probabely won't like, but I've uploaded what seems
to be an early version of these to Epas. Can some guru see if he/
she can make them work with warcraft ? 

Got the from the cd-rom demo of Deathgate. Good luck.

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

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Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 15:31:24 -0500 (EST)
From: "K.S. Holly" <u8843389@muss.CIS.McMaster.CA>
Subject: ALL RIGHT YOU MORONS, LISTEN UP!

Before I begin, I will apologize in advance for those who genuinely have 
made a mistake when replying to a question or comment on the digest.....

<FLAME ON>

STOP RE-SUBMITTING THE DIGEST EVERY TIME YOU REPLY TO SOMETHING!!!!!!!

DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT INCLUDE 'ORIGINAL MESSAGE' IN YOUR REPLIES!!!!!

I HAVE BEEN ON THIS MAILING LIST FOR 2 YEARS NOW AND I HAVE NEVER SEEN 
THIS MANY OCCURENCES OF REPOSTING BEFORE.

THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING BEFORE YOU HIT THE SEND COMMAND DAMMIT!!!

NO ONE HAS THE TIME (OR MONEY) TO RE-READ THE DIGEST OVER AND OVER 
BECAUSE SOME IDIOT INCLUDED THE WHOLE THING IN THEIR 5 LINE RESPONSE...

<FLAME OFF>

Have a nice day! :-)

Kevin

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Date: Sat, 3 Dec 1994 00:45:13 -0800 (PST)
From: Vince - IE - Experimental Mail Server Admin Acct <mailserv@ucs.orst.edu>
Subject: Apologies about the massive flood of digests

Hello fellow GUS Users,

	I am very sorry for the massive flood of digests that was coming
all from mcimail.com, apparently, it seems like some idiot has also
subscribed the digest address to the list so that is why you may see
doubles of some stuff that bounced back.  Anyways, Hopefully I fixed it
now.  If this happens again, can someone try to email me the message of
the address that bounced or whatever and I'll remove it from the last so
this doesn't happen again the next day.  Thanks.  Sorry for the delay as
I was busy for the last few days.


                              Cheers,
          		       Vince
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Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 14:51:34 -0600
From: bbaskin@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu (Bryan K. Baskin)
Subject: Excuse me, but what the H--- is going on!

Okay y'all, 

        I used to think the GUS digest was useful, and it still is when used
intellegently, but this is truely getting insane.  A 5 minute download on a
14.4K ?  Come on people, this is not the way to use this valuable resource.
Instead of replying and cutting hundreds of lines, just make a new message,
say your bit and then be done with it.  None of us require 10 copies of the
same digest.

        Anyhow, i agree with a few others out there:  I no longer wish to
continue this sh-t if it going to continue.

        I've gotten alot of good help and advice on various matters from
this digest and the people who frequent it, but this is insane.

                                                        Baskin -)
                                                  Baskin -)
                                                  The University of Texas at
Austin
                                             

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Date: Sat, 3 Dec 1994 02:22:12 -0500
From: Leung Cheung <lcheung@uncc.edu>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V17 #2

who is the IDIOT keep attached the old digest in the reply?  
This makes the mail away too big.  Please Watch What u reply in?
Don't quote the extra stuff in the reply.

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Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 23:27:35 -0800 (PST)
From: Stephen Thomas Brindle <sbrindle@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V17 #2

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

If Megaem makes certain notes play continuously in a loop, just add the 
-SS switch when loading emuset.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
 Stephen Thomas Brindle |"I have made this letter longer than usual, because
------------------------|I lack the time to make it short."
    Ethereal Dragon     |       -Blaise Pascal
     -==(UDIC)==-       |
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 23:22:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Stephen Thomas Brindle <sbrindle@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V17 #2

There were 13 copies of previous GUS digests in this issue alone!  
Damnit, people, YOU DON'T HAVE TO QUOTE THE WHOLE FUCKING DIGEST!  Would 
the idiots who are doing this please stop NOW!

-Stephen

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Date: Fri Dec  2 09:37:03 PST 1994
From: gus-general-request@gaia.ucs.orst.edu (GUS Server)
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 Dec  1 09:37:05 PST 1994
From: gus-general-request@gaia.ucs.orst.edu (GUS Server)
Subject: GUS Daily Digest V17 #1

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!

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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

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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

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

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 *+-
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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!

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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

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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)

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

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 *+-
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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, 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.

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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

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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

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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


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

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-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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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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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

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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).

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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 ??

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	( - )   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?

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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: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 13:51:07 -0600 (CST)
From: Bryce Penberthy <crazyguy@lc.lindenwood.edu>
Subject: Inertia Player & OS/2 Warp

	I'm on the Inertia Player list and in the last couple of days 
I've seen there's a couple of people who have bought OS/2 and can't get 
Iplay to work.   But then again I believe that these people have the 
newer Sound Blaster cards.  I don't know if a GUS would work or not.

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Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 15:27 -0500
From: DANTONIO@PROCESS.COM (Momentary Language, Sexual Situations)
Subject: Multiple digests and OS/2 drivers...

Ok, Vince, this is out of control; shutdown the digest and fix it or scrap it.
I don't need 6439 line mail messages. And, no doubt, we'll get one tomorrow
with 8 copies of today's digest...

Ok, Gravis, this is also out of control. Post definitive status for OS/2 drivers
and, equally important, what features they will support. When contacted, your
tech support folks said, "They are on schedule for an end-of-year release." When
asked about features, I was told they didn't have a spec sheet on them. IF they
are on schedule, then SOMEONE ought to know what fesatures are there (since
they've supposedly been working on them since May/June).

None of this stuff is rocket science, folks.

DDA

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Date: Sat, 3 Dec 1994 16:25:40 -1000 (GMT-10:00)
From: Paul Murgatroyd <s1114@kowande.Bond.edu.au>
Subject: OK..

 .this is not funny! A 269K digest in my mail box!! Who the hell keeps 
including the whole digest in their replies???? This is beyond a joke 
now, and it stops me from even bothering to the read the digest.

Whoever it is, wake up, and check before you hit the send button!

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