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Subject: GUS Daily Digest V17 #28

GUS Daily Digest            Thu, 29 Dec 94  9:37 PST     Volume 17: Issue  28 

Today's Topics:
                              3.57 REAL
                         Aladdin and Warcraft
                          Crystal CODEC chip
                   Dark Forces and NO GUS support!
                    Dark Forces GUS sound solution
                       Descent LOCKS for me too
                         Gravis OS/2 Drivers.
                Gravis turning their back on the GUS?
                            Gus & DESCENT
                  GUS Daily Digest V17 #27 (2 msgs)
               GUS MAX and popping during MIDI playback
                           GUS OS/2 drivers
                        Hardball 4 HMI Drivers
                          OS/2 Alpha driver
                       Problems with AVI files
                           SBOSMAX? Hmph...
             Several GUS and WC3 problems...  please help
                                 UAKM
                    Under a Killing Moon revisited
            What is ADPCM, u-law, etc.? How do I use them?

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, 29 Dec 1994 12:07:33 +0800 (GMT+0800)
From: the FLAT^^TOP <kohkhang@iscs.nus.sg>
Subject: 3.57 REAL

>Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 17:46:46 +0800
>From: "Christopher Bolin" <cbolin@teleport.com>
>Subject: 3.57 update disks, files, ANYONE??
>
>Is the disk set 3.57 on orst real or a fake??  If it is real, why
>isn't it available from Gravis?

the disks are real... i uploaded them myself... 8) they were sent to
me by Gravis.... (i hear 3.59 is out.... anyone care to upload it ?)
>
>Is there a update file floating around?

nope...
>
>Can someone give us the real story?

3.57 is REAL..... someone please upload 3.59 (if it exists !)
-- 
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\====<DOOMer, X-phile, BattleTech, Babylon 5, StarTrek & StarWars fan>====/

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Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 21:58:03 -0500 (EST)
From: Adam Lloyd <aa789@freenet.toronto.on.ca>
Subject: Aladdin and Warcraft

Both of the following games don't have GUS support. I can use SBOS with 
Warcraft to get the crappie music but I would to get the sound effects 
working.  Aladdin I can't play with any sound at all. SBOS doesn't work 
at all. If anyone here knows of a patch somewhere, it would be greatly 
appreciated. 

Adam.

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Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 02:48:19 -0330
From: Aaron Cameron <acameron@europa.cs.mun.ca>
Subject: Crystal CODEC chip

I thought there was no signiffigant hardware differences between the GUS 
and the GUSMAX.  So what's the deal with the Crystal CODEC chip then?  I 
own a MAX (for the CDROM interface, mainly) and it's amazing.  So what's 
in the Crystal CODEC that the standard GUS ain't got?  Just wondering.

Cheers,
AC

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Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 16:24:49 +0800
From: "Christopher Bolin" <cbolin@teleport.com>
Subject: Dark Forces and NO GUS support!

The Dark Forces demo does *NOT* support the GUS

Be sure to write LucasArts and tell them how much you would enjoy
GUS Support


Internet E-Mail: 75300.454@compuserve.com
Or send e-mail to LucasArts3@AOL.com


That said, you can get the digital/SFX to work with BossMAX, but the 
music support will lock it hard...

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Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 11:34:10 -0500
From: am246@freenet.carleton.ca (Nam H. Pham)
Subject: Dark Forces GUS sound solution

Using SBOS v3.82, I found that if you load it with sbos -o4
Set digital sound to Sound Blaster and if you want music (abit scratchy),
set music to 4-OP FM.


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Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 02:50:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Daniel LeBlanc <leblanc@info.polymtl.ca>
Subject: Descent LOCKS for me too

> When I try to run Descent with my GUS, it locks up.  It get's to the 
> LOADING...
> line then just locks up, I've tried every setting and have run out of 
> ideas.

The same appends with me. The game works fine with the -nosound parametre 
though.
I have GUS with 768k in a 486/66 8M
PLEASE HELP
			-Dan
 

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Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 18:58:43 -0800 (PST)
From: James I Esteves <jesteve@eis.calstate.edu>
Subject: Gravis OS/2 Drivers.

I downloaded Gravis' Alpha OS/2 Drivers yesterday and they look O.K.  
MIDI & Wave playback is pretty good except for the occasional "skip"  -- 
it's most noticible when it's loading the MIDI patches when you play a 
MIDI.  

Wave playback is excellent, no real problems there.

All in all, it looks promising.  Can't wait till the release is out.

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Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 23:26:24 -0500 (EST)
From: Buddy <u8843389@muss.CIS.McMaster.CA>
Subject: Gravis turning their back on the GUS?

After all this talk about the new SBOSMAX and that it only works on the 
UltraMAX, I have to wonder if this is a sign of things to come. When the 
UltraMAX was released, I think a lot of us held our breath until we were 
assured that it was no different than the GUS from a functionality point 
of view. Then when the upgrade offer came about, I started to wonder 
again if Gravis was moving away from the original design and was trying 
to save some face by giving everyone the opportunity to get on board 
before it was too late. Now with the release of the new SBOS that only 
works with the UltraMAX, the threat of extinction for the support of the 
original GUS seems even closer to reality.

I was going to upgrade but decided not to since there was not supposed to 
be any difference from a sound-quality point of view and I don't need to 
do any sampling.
Now I'm wondering if I made the right decision.

Am I the only one who's getting these bad vibes? Any comments Gravis?

Kevin

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Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 16:03:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Pete Kilcullen <pmk@access.digex.net>
Subject: Gus & DESCENT

> When I try to run Descent with my GUS, it locks up.  It get's to the 
> 
> LOADING...
> 
> line then just locks up, I've tried every setting and have run out of ideas.

DESCENT works fine with my 1 meg GUS. When I used the "autodetect 
soundcard", it set up the GUS for IRQ 11 even tho it's set for IRQ 7. 
This I don't understand; but everything works fine as now set. BTW, this 
is on the "demo" version of DESCENT.

Pete

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Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 12:57:07 -0800
From: an136978@anon.penet.fi
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V17 #27

>
>GUS Daily Digest            Wed, 28 Dec 94  9:37 PST     Volume 17: Issue =
 27=20
>
>Today's Topics:
>                  3.57 update disks, files, ANYONE??
>                    Descent locks up with my GUS!
>                         Gravis' OS/2 Drivers
>                      GUS and Maxis Klik & Play
>                       GUS Daily Digest V17 #26
>                     Max and Windows - no workee
>                               Maxsbos
>                    MAXSBOS with plain UltraSound
>                        OS/2_drivers_uploaded
>                            Rebel Assault
>                 SB/GUS midi interface box problem...
>                        Under the Killing Moon
>              Where is MAX SBOS?  And what about MegaEm?
>
>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: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 17:46:46 +0800
>From: "Christopher Bolin" <cbolin@teleport.com>
>Subject: 3.57 update disks, files, ANYONE??
>
>Is the disk set 3.57 on orst real or a fake??  If it is real, why=20
>isn't it available from Gravis?
>
>Is there a update file floating around?
>
>Can someone give us the real story?
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Tue, 27 Dec 94 22:34:15 -0400
>From: "Chris Campbell" <campbell@fox.nstn.ca>
>Subject: Descent locks up with my GUS!
>
>When I try to run Descent with my GUS, it locks up.  It get's to the=20
>
>LOADING...
>
>line then just locks up, I've tried every setting and have run out of=
 ideas.
>
>Also I have a problem with my hard drive, it's my D:\ drive, when I try to=
=20
>format it is says CAN NOT WRITE BOOT FORMAT TERMINATED, could my GUS be=20
>causing this?  It causes Windows to lock up unless I run ULTRINIT before=20
>Windows... talk about the root of all evils lately :(
>
>Don't get me wrong I love my GUS!  Just a few little problems that I need=
=20
>some help with there :/
>
>--=20
>Merry Christmas and a happy New Years!
>Chris Campbell
>campbell@fox.nstn.ca
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 12:29:24 -800 (PST)
>From: Tyrone Horton <thorton@zyxel.com>
>Subject: Gravis' OS/2 Drivers
>
>Has anyone tried Advanced Gravis OS/2 Drivers?  Were you able to get=20
>sound from a Dos box?  How is it compared to the Manley drivers?  Any=20
>comments on it at all? =20
>
>Tyrone Horton		714-693-0808 voice	thorton@zyxel.com
>ZyXEL			714-693-8811 fax	71333,2734 Compuserve
>4920 E. La Palma Ave	714-693-0762 bbs	1:103/725 Fidonet
>Anaheim, CA  92807
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 15:49:10 +0500
>From: asnyder@artorg.hmc.psu.edu (Alan J. Snyder)
>Subject: GUS and Maxis Klik & Play
>
>At least for my plain GUS, Maxis Klik & Play requires the playback
>buffer length in the control panel to be set to 1024, or else I
>get breakups and combinations of intended and previously played sounds
>for all but the shortest sounds in the Klik&Play library.
>
>Fortunately, this was easy to find because it _sounds_ like short
>pieces of samples being loaded into a long buffer, and then the whole
>buffer, with or without old contents still there, being played.
>
>I have no idea whether this is a GUS driver problem (I have the ones
>from 3.57) or a Klik&Play problem. The same WAV files play fine when
>played from other tools.
>
>- Alan
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 15:10:27 +0000
>From: William Beckner <wbeckner@darkstar.rsa.lib.il.us>
>Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V17 #26
>
>On Tue, 27 Dec 94, GUS Server wrote:
>
>>=20
>> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 94 05:38:50 EST
>> From: Pooya Hemami <PHEMAMI@MUSICM.MCGILL.CA>
>> Subject: UltraSound Clicks
>>=20
>> I just bought my 2nd Gravis UltraSound and installed it yesterday.
>> The sound quality is amazing - except for one thing, the clicking.
>> Sometimes, there is a popping or clicking sound when playing certain
>> MIDI files (such as MINUETG.MID).  It's inconsistent (it happens
>> sometimes but not always) but it's still annoying.  In fact, the
>> clicking problem is one of the things that prompted me to return
>> my GUS 2 years ago.  Anyway, does anyone know of any possible remedies
>> to the problem?  I have a DX2/66 and I'm hooking the GUS to an external
>> amp via its Line-Out connector and I've also shielded the GUS from my
>> other adapter cards with paper wrapped around aluminum foil.
>>=20
>> I have a 1 MB GUS - consisting of 2 70ns NEC chips, 4 80ns Goldstar
>> chips, and 2 70ns Hyundai chips.  But SETGUS' diagnosting program
>> doesn't detect any problems with the RAM or other conflicts.  Also,
>> my ULTRASND variable is set to ULTRASND=3D220,5,5,11,5.
>>=20
>> My motherboard is an SIS471B with 256k writeback cache and among other
>> things, my CONFIG.SYS/AUTOEXEC.BAT combo includes Drive Rocket, GMOUSE,
>> NNANSI, UMC VLB IDE Driver, HIMEM.SYS, NCACHE2, SHARE, and DOSKEY.
>>=20
>> Any suggestions?
>>=20
>
>I had the exact same problem with my first GUSMax.  After two calls to=20
>Advanced Gravis' tech support, we determined the problem to be with the=20
>card itself.  After I got the replacement card, everything sounded=20
>clean!  Of course I have a Max, so my problem may not be the same as=20
>yours P).
>=20
>As a suggestion, you may want try reconfiguring the GUS so that the=20
>playback and record DMA's are different values.  That may do the trick.
>
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>William Beckner - System Manager             =
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>------------------------------
>
>Date: 28 Dec 1994 08:29:43 -0700
>From: "mgreen" <mgreen@smtpgw.sim.es.com>
>Subject: Max and Windows - no workee
>
>Help!
>  I can't get my UltrasoundMax to work with Windows.  I can use it under=
 DOS
>to play MIDI files, but not luck with MIDI or Wave when I run Windows. =20
>  I am running a 40MHz AMD386DX with 4M Ram, OPTI chip set, DOS 5.0 and
>Windows 3.1., video card with TSENG ET4000 chip set, IDE hard drive.
>  I spent a half-an-hour on the phone with Advanced Gravis tech support
>yesterday and so far they haven't a clue.  (I'm sending them an MSD report=
 to
>see if they can figure out what's wrong.)
>  Anyone have any suggestions?  Mail me:  mgreen@sim.es.com.
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 17:20:06 +0200
>From: sniiran@freenet.hut.fi (Samuli Niiranen)
>Subject: Maxsbos
>
>I finally got the new SBOS for ultramax. (from a friend who downloaded
>it from Gravis BBS). All I can say is that the quality of music and=20
>digitized effects was AWESOME. Actually SB fm music sounded like=20
>AWE32 wavatable <grin>. Sadly the new SBOS works only with the MAX.
>(music works with a 1MB GUS, but the effects won't since basic GUS
>doesn't have the Crystal CODEC onboard like the MAX). I also browsed
>through the executable and noticed a header about a mpu-401 emulation
>mode... I wonder will there a new version of megaem or is Adv Gravis
>going to implement megaem to SBOS. The new SBOS is still an alpha
>version but it works with almost all games. I've had some problems
>with digitized effects in dos/4gw and in other protected mode games.
>And one more thing: NMI is no longer required !!!
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 22:43:21 -0800 (PST)
>From: George <gmontem@mercury.sfsu.edu>
>Subject: MAXSBOS with plain UltraSound
>
>> Also, for the MAXSBOS program, does it work *only* for the MAX, or does=
=20
>> it work for a regular UltraSound with 1 MB of memory?  I thought there's=
=20
>> no significant hardware difference but the recording capability and CD=20
>> interface, which I don't think the MAXSBOS program needs.  Perhaps,=20
>> Gravis just assumed that all regular UltraSound owners still had only=20
>> 256k RAM, and so said it was for the MAX, with a base 512k RAM, the=20
>> amount with which MAXSBOS works.
>
>Tried the MAXSBOS with regular UltraSound with 1MB installed and here are=
=20
>the results:
>
>Works fine with FM emulation ONLY.
>If it has to emulate Digital voices, it locks up since it uses the Codec=20
>chip I think.
>
>Anyways, this is great for games that use FM only if you have a plain=20
>UltraSound.  IMHO it sounds exponentially better than its predecessor.
>
>Advanced Gravis has improved SBOS  in a limited way since it works best=20
>on a MAX, and has convinced me that the Protected-mode Mega-Em will be a=20
>killer program.  From what they've done so far, it looks like the new=20
>Mega-Em will use the same MAXSBOS engine and will use the same=20
>patch-caching AIL 3.10 engine.
>
>Go Gravis! But for now, how about a MAXSBOS for regular GUS while we wait=
=20
>for new Mega-Em?
>
>-George
><EOT>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 01:45:27 -0500
>From: Led Mirage <lmirage@io.org>
>Subject: OS/2_drivers_uploaded
>
>I've uploaded the OS/2 alpha drivers for GUS on epas. But please don't ask=
 me
>ANYTHING about it as I don't use OS/2 myself. Now could someone upload GUS
>install disks 359?
>PS what's new in this version anyway?
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Wed, 28 Dec 94 13:18:51 GMT+1
>From: tore.klev@infolink.no (Tore Klev)
>Subject: Rebel Assault
>
>Hi!
>
>I know this is a very old game, and there has been many messages about
>it. But I'm wondering if anyone could repeat some of the tips that were
>given concerning Rebel Assault and the Gravis UltraSound?
>
>Someone I know is getting sound only in one of his speakers, and he gets
>much noise. Does anyone recognize this situation?
>
>=DD   XTag v5.0   =DE Tore Klev - Sysop Mercurius MBBS(71 17 32 23) -
>=DDXBoard 1.0 #305=DE Multimedia-pakke til 1990,- inkl. mva.!
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 01:04:15 -0500 (EST)
>From: quaestor <balkov@Cybernetics.NET>
>Subject: SB/GUS midi interface box problem...
>
>Hello;
>	Being an adventurous sort of person, I decided to build a midi
>interface box for my GUS. The circuit described in the GUS-FAQ didn't make
>any sense to me; it's some of the worst ascii art I've ever seen, and the
>accompanying text description was no better. So I decided to use a circuit
>description I got from the Creative Labs BBS some time ago. So far so good.
>	I had little trouble building the thing, and it works fine ... one
>way. Nothing I've tried has had any trouble sending midi data TO the
>keyboard; however, nothing I've tried wants to RECIEVE. I have checked the
>connections visually and with a continuity tester at least a dozen times; I
>know for a fact that none of the components are misplaced, nor are any of
>the leads crossed.
>	I'm no EE, but as much checking as I am able to dream up seems to
>indicate that everything works, and that the circuit description itself
>should be valid.
>	I would post the circuit I used (and will be more than happy to do
>so if it will help), but it includes several large PCX files.
>	Here's a bit of technical info: The circuit uses a 4n35 Photo
>Transistor Output Isolator for the input from external midi. Other circuits
>I have read about use different IC's, at least for the GUS. All components
>are standard, nothing wacky about this thing. The buffer is a 7407; I know
>it works because the output to external midi functions fine, as I mentioned
>above.
>	Question 1: What differences, if any, exist between the SB and GUS
>joy/midi port which could account for the trouble I'm having?
>	Question 2: HEEELP! Can anyone (please, please) take a look at the
>circuit diagrams I've got and tell me if they're valid?
>	Question 3: Has anyone gotten this particular circuit to work? It's
>the one at ftp.creaf.com, on the C/L BBS, and on some archive sites here=
 and
>there.
>
>	Sorry to run on so long, but this (external midi) is the reason I
>got a gus and a midi keyboard. I REALLY want to fix this. At this point, it
>probably WOULD be cheaper to just *buy* one from Gravis, but I can't get
>them to return my calls (3 messages), I'm not going to blindly send them a
>check, and I've already invested a good bit of time and effort into this
>homebrew thing. If I (with help) can get this working, I'll be happy to
>write it up for the FAQ.
>
>Thanks in advance;
>
>ben
>
>p.s. Reply here, or via e-mail, I check both daily (sometimes hourly ;-)
>
>_O_	The first thing to depart in mental illness is the familiar.
> |	And what takes its place is Bad News...
>			Philip K. Dick, VALIS=09
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 13:45:40 -0600
>From: riedl@cs.umn.edu (John Riedl)
>Subject: Under the Killing Moon
>
>I picked up Under the Killing Moon (UTKM) and am having no luck
>getting it to work with my GUS.  UTKM claims to work with a GUS, but it
>crashes my computer every time I try it.  Has anyone had any luck
>getting UTKM to work?  Any tips?
>
>Thanks,
>John
>
John

I have that program and it works fine!  Try typing in C:\moongrav and that
should do it!
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Tue, 27 Dec 94 18:07:09 -0400
>From: "Chris Campbell" <campbell@fox.nstn.ca>
>Subject: Where is MAX SBOS?  And what about MegaEm?
>
>On Mon, 26 Dec 1994 19:16:57 -0800,=20
>GUS Server  <gus-general-request@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> wrote:
>
>>Date: Sun, 25 Dec 1994 22:27:39 -0800 (PST)
>>From: Stephen Thomas Brindle <sbrindle@netcom.com>
>>Subject: Where is MAX SBOS?  And what about MegaEm?
>>
>>I can't find the new MAX SBOS on the GUS sites.  Would someone who has it=
=20
>>from the Gravis BBS upload the original ZIP?
>
>Can someone mail me some info on MAX SBOS?  Never heard of it ;)
>
>>Also, what about that new protected mode MegaEm?  I hear it was delayed. =
=20
>>Until when?
>
>Last I heard from Brain Rizzo it is due out by the end of '94 so it should=
=20
>be any day now.
>
>--=20
>Merry Christmas and a happy New Years!
>Chris Campbell
>campbell@fox.nstn.ca
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 23:59:04 -0500
>From: Led Mirage <lmirage@io.org>
>
>Someone please upload GUS install disk 359 to epas. Thanks. BTW I'll be=20
>uploading the OS/2 ALPHA drivers for GUS very soon.
>
>------------------------------
>
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Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 17:14:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Taz <ldorio@earth.njcc.com>
Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V17 #27

Hmmm... I know that this is pretty silly, but this question has 
constantly been on my mind... How do I get both my GUS MAX and SB16 to 
work at the same time? I really dont care about SBOS, because if I can 
get the SB16 to work, I won't need it. If I set my GUS DMA to anything 
other than DMA channel 1, it will tell me something that the Soundblaster 
whoseewhatsit has failed when I test it... Should I ignore that since I 
don't want SBOS? A soundblaster16 has 2 DMA Channels, DMA 1 for 8-bit 
sound, and DMA 5 for 16 bit sound. Right now, I can't use both because 
DMA1 is being used on my GUS and my SB16... Help...

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Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 16:26:27 +0800
From: "Christopher Bolin" <cbolin@teleport.com>
Subject: GUS MAX and popping during MIDI playback

I have a GUS MAX, rev 1.7.

I can boot ENTIRELY clean.  Meaning nothing but an MSDOS 6.22 disk 
SYS'd and the Max init from disk set 3.56

In everything I do I get popping and cracking when MIDI music is 
playing.  I have tried everything I can.  I set my bus speed to 8mhz,
tried the card in different slots... nothing.

I hear the popping in the following:

DOOM2 1.7a
Rise of the Triad
Descent
Heretic

in short, *everything* I have that supports the GUS in native mode.
 
Anyone had this problem??  Any solutions?

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Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 12:53:18 -0700 (MST)
From: Oscar M Fowler <oscar@cs.arizona.edu>
Subject: Re: GUS OS/2 drivers

> Has anyone tried Advanced Gravis OS/2 Drivers?  Were you able to get 
> sound from a Dos box?  How is it compared to the Manley drivers?  Any 
> comments on it at all?  

Yeah - I'm using them now.  They seem to work fine, though I haven't
done any extensive testing.  They don't provide any sort of explicit
DOS support.  Your DOS apps can get through to the GUS without any
problems (as they can without the driver) but if you use a DOS app, you'll
have to reset the OS/2 driver.

The only advantage this driver has over Manley's is that it has
GUS MIDI support - in other words, it will play MIDI songs using
GUS patches.  The Manley drivers don't do this yet, they require
you to have an external MIDI device.

However, the Manley driver have DOS support (you don't have to
do anything special when using DOS apps).  Also, it will have
SoundBlaster emulation for DOS apps built in - I don't know
if any of this is planned for the Gravis drivers.  Seeing as how
DOS apps are critical still (OS/2 sound apps are few and far between),
I think DOS support is still the most important consideration.

I've been using Manley's drivers for months now without a problem.
Unless Gravis comes out with something significantly better, I'll
continue to support his efforts.

Oscar

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Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 09:04:13 -0500
From: kjancef@tiac.net (Ken Jancef)
Subject: Hardball 4 HMI Drivers

I have a question regarding Hardball 4 and GUS Max: I can setup the game for
digital sound using the GUS option, but when I setup MIDI using the GUS
option, I get an error that a driver isn't loaded. The program loads
patches, but I keep getting that error.

What driver do I need to load?????

Any help would be appreciated!

Ken Jancef
kjancef@tiac.net




Remember, the light at the
end of the tunnel may be you!

Steven Tyler

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Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 23:07:23 -0600
From: lala@interaccess.com (Imre Olajos)
Subject: OS/2 Alpha driver

Hi, everybody!

Just a few comments on the Alpha release of the OS/2 drivers. I have
Warp installed on my machine (parallel with DOS/Windows). The Manley
drivers were OK, but the still unofficial Gravis drivers are somewhat
better than the shareware (!) Manley-drivers. My OS/2 can now play
MIDI musics through the GUS sytnh while still playing the system sounds.
A big drawback is that the GMIDI musics seem to have timing problems,
plus they get stuck once a while, but then keep on playing after a sec.
I didn't try it yet in a DOS box, but then I just installed Warp a few
days ago (it was a christmas present for myself... :), so I hardly know
OS/2 itself...

All in all, I would recommend everybody to AT LEAST TRY the OS/2 drivers,
available on epas, filename is OS2_031A.ZIP. The more people try it, the
more people will see bugs in it, the better it can get as a final product!

Imre OLAJOS, Jr. (LaLa of TranSByte)
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Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 13:50:39 -0500
From: jntyk@rs733.gsfc.nasa.gov (Young Koh)
Subject: Problems with AVI files

I've had almost no problems whatsoever with my GUS until a few days
ago.  Everything was fine, and then kaboom!!!

Problem:  When I play avi files in windows (3.11) I hear the
speech/music for the first couple of seconds and then I hear a lot of
clicking, hissing, static, etc and no speech/music.  Once in a while
during the playing of the avi file, the speech would pick back up for
a second or two.
All the other files work fine (midi, mod, wav, etc).  I
haven't had a chance to try Quicktime's mov files yet.

Everthing was working fine until I tried a friend's Stealth 24 and
selected 16.6M colors.  Since then, I've gone back to my old Diamond
SpeedStar, but the problem persists.

My configuration:
486DX33 with 16Meg RAM
GUS with 1 Meg
Panasonic 2x CD
GUS is set to 240,7,7,11,7
GUS disk is gus0043.zip (I think that's version 3.56)

What I want to know is, is this a gus driver problem? 
I've re-installed 3.56 & 3.53 (from Ultrasound CD)
I've re-installed Video for Windows (ver 1.1).

What can I try?  BTW, some avi files with little or no animation output
speech o.k. all the way thru, but with some clicking and hissing.

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Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 13:37:47 -0500
From: adu@freenet.vcu.edu (Andrew Du)
Subject: SBOSMAX? Hmph...

Has anyone has the problem of sound effects working, but not
music?

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Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 17:23:01 EST
From: "Joseph R. Granto" <GLOCK@chip.cba.ufl.edu>
Subject: Several GUS and WC3 problems...  please help

I got WC3 for Christmas, and run into a few snags.

Problem 1 I will include simply because it was _solved_; maybe this 
will help someone else.  The problem was sound and video skipping in 
SVGA mode.  The problem is too slow a machine (I have a 486DX25 ISA). 
The solution was to run in VGA mode.

Problem 2:  Music card installation crashes the machine.  Yes, I run 
wc3grav to install.  No, I do not have any DMA or IRQ conflicts.  I 
have owned my GUS for many years, it runs everything fine, except for 
WC3.  It is a 1 MB GUS, by the way.  Digital card installation and 
testing run perfectly (panning is cool).  When I try to test the music 
card installation, the program freezes up for a few minutes.  It then 
gives an error reading the CD-ROM drive.  Any ideas?

Problem 3:  This has to do with the Behind the Scenes CD-ROM that 
came with the Premier Edition.  It uses Video for Windows.  I am 
running Windows for Workgroups v3.11.  When I try to run the CD, 
everything initially looks fine.  However, when I try to get the 
program to plpay anything, however, nothing happens.  The play button 
depresses, the cursor turns into an hour glass for a second or two, 
and then nothing.  It does not crash, it simply does not work. I am 
running the most recent Windows drivers (those included with the 3.57 
disk set).  All my other apps and games run and sound fine.  Any 
ideas?


 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Joe Granto                                      GLOCK@chip.cba.ufl.edu

"When the going gets tough, the tough get a GLOCK!"
    --Guns & Ammo
"Don't clock'em, GLOCK'em!"
    --Miami Dade police officer
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 12:02:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Gunnar Swanson <gunnar@email.unc.edu>
Subject: UAKM

Dear Gussers,

For those of you having a problem with UAKM and the GUS there is a patch 
available I beleive that it was done sometime in Nov.  It is supposed to 
clear up some problems with the GUS and UAKM sound.  

If I had my shit together I could tell you the exact name of the file.  
It is available on AOL and the Gravis BBS and probably the wuarchive.  

Frankly I was excited about the game because I played the first two but 
after reading the reviews and seeing a demo and the fact it has som many 
problems playing GUS, darn those Access geeks, I am not overwhelmed.  Get 
WCIII instead.

Sincerely,

Gunnar Swanson

gunnar@gibbs.oit.unc.edu

gunnars@aol.com

end.

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Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 16:46:45 -0600
From: riedl@cs.umn.edu (John Riedl)
Subject: Under a Killing Moon revisited

Well, thanks in part to suggestions from readers of the digest, I was
able to get Under a Killing Moon working partially.  Thanks!  It's a
very interesting game.

However, I have a puzzling problem now.  When I run the game with MIDI
music enabled perfomance suffers.  The config screen reports my CD-ROM
is half its normal speed, and my video board is 1/4 its normal speed.
Playability is lousy in this state.  When I turn MIDI off, performance
still suffers.  It completely recovers, though, when I say there is no
MIDI device.  I cannot understand the cause of this problem.  Any
ideas?

I have an older GUS.  I'm using address 220, DMA channel 7, IRQ 11,
and MIDI IRQ 5 in DOS.  UaKM does not ask for a separate MIDI IRQ, so
I don't know what it uses.

Thanks!
John

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Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 02:32:04 -0500
From: fta@wbb.com
Subject: What is ADPCM, u-law, etc.? How do I use them?

The box that my GUS Max came in says something about support for several
compression schemes (ADPCM, u-law, and a-law, I think...).  Anyone know
what these things are and how they are used?

Oh, and just so I don't have to post another message, I have a strange
problem with certain games such as Syndicate and Star Control 2 where it
seems like my GUS Max is playing all patches in memory continuously.  My
ULTRASND=220,1,1,7,5.  Any ideas?

Thanks, all!

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