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GUS Daily Digest            Fri, 20 Jan 95  9:37 PST     Volume 18: Issue  19

Today's Topics:
                           3.59 instruments
                  CH FLIGHTSTICK connected to GUSMAX
                             GUS & AWE32
                             GUS and WC3
                       GUS Daily Digest V18 #18
                            GUS HMI update
                            GUSMAX & WIN95
                      GUSMAX's memory upgrade ?
                         GUS MAX memory chips
                   Help with mic recording needed!
                               MAXSBOS
                      MegaEm for Protected Mode
                        Revision Upgrade Path
                              subscribe
                   System Shock CD W/Digital Sound?
                       Us Navy Fighter with GUS

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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 09:25:57 GMT
From: "Mark D. Billinge" <PPYLMDB@ppn3.physics.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: 3.59 instruments

I recently downloaded and installed the new v3.59 install disks.
Everything's okay except two instruments, which I assume is down to
the 3.59 install which replaced all my patches.

The first problem is the celesta, which has been changed dramatically
and is not as realistic as it used to be - could someone upload a
copy of the old one to epas?  The second is just something which has
remained the same since the very early days of the GUS - the strings
patch marcato.pat is STILL left-right reversed.  The lower strings go
on the RIGHT, not on the left - unless of course you are listening
from a position in the orchestra.  It's not really much of
a problem, since the patch can easily been modified with Patch Maker,
but it's just an easy-to-fix point that's been ignored up to now.

Mark

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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 10:28:14 -0500
From: ba384@freenet.carleton.ca (Peter Kowalski)
Subject: CH FLIGHTSTICK connected to GUSMAX

This was probably foolish of me to try, but I attempted to hook up a CH
FLIGHTSTICK to my GUS MAX.  Slight problem.  It doesn't work.  I was
hoping to use it with TIE FIGHTER.  I try to run GRAVUTIL, and calibrate.
The square is flying around everywhere!  Nothing I do stops it, EXCEPT
holding one of the 2 buttons.  When a button is pressed, everythings ok.

Tie has the same thing.  Cursor and Ship flight erratic unless button
pressed.  I really don't want to play the whole games forced to constantly
shoot...  Trim doesn't help at all, and the only thing I could find in the
manuals is A) GUS MAN: Y ADAPTER CABLES don't work with GUS (nothing in Stick
manual about y cable), B) JOYSTICK MAN: Erratic movermet due to non-speed
compensating game port.  (Thought the gus max had a speed compensating
game port.  Says so on the box!)  I want to know if I can do anything
else, short of buying a game card. (didn't get one because I THOUGHT I
could use the GUS). If you can help, PLEASE do!  Do I need a midibox as
pictured in the manual?

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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 17:00:02 -0500
From: adu@freenet.vcu.edu (Andrew Du)
Subject: GUS & AWE32

In my last message, I asked why there isn't an AWE32 emulator
for the GUS.  Someone replied asking what the AWE32 had that
the GUS didn't have.  That's not what I meant.  The purpose of
an AWE 32 emulator would not serve for the card's features, but
for compatibility.  Also, some chorus and reverb features
wouldn't be that bad either.

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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 01:25:44 -0300 (ADT)
From: Andre Arseneault <eaa2582@Umoncton.CA>
Subject: GUS and WC3

Gussers,

        I Know this has already been answered but I don't remember the
answer.  How can Gus and Wing Commander III work together.  This
information is for a friend and any help would be appreciated.  Thanks in
advance.

HAPPY GUSSING ALL
Caps

Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 21:09:30 -0500 (EST)
From: lalancej@JSP.UMontreal.CA
Subject: GuS MaX!

OK, first, I've just change my motherbaord because the old one didn't
have the NMI procedure enabled... (warranty!) Now the strange part,
the only way that they could use my max in the new motherbaord
was to open Disable CD-Rom jumper (JP3)?? If not, the system don't
want to start, it stopped rigth after the Starting Ms-Dos message appear...
Bizarre....!

Now, I've posted to gus@tech.com but still no response. I think this
is the cause of SBOS and MegaEm problem... They NEVER works for me
in any games, and yes, i've read the g-list.... I've tried different
settings, but nothings happens.... Any ideas???????

Here is my system:
486 dx2-66 256k cache/ 8megs RAM/ CH-498B VLB motherbaord
CL-5428 VLB 1meg video card / Vision QD6500 VLB IDE card (controller)
Modem USR Sporter 14.4fax
and Gus MAX rev 1.8 1meg...

Thanks!!!
--
Jose Lalancette, Dept. Informatique
Universite de Montreal
e-mail: lalancej@jsp.umontreal.ca

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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 15:37:01 EST
From: hallo276@osiris.elte.hu
Subject: help

I have a problem with the following games with my gus card: Warcraft, Beneath
the steel sky. Can anybody help me out?
             Thanks!
                         Herpai Gergely

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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 95 08:51:00 MST
From: tschmidt@pefs1.micron.com (Tom Schmidt)
Subject: Mega-Em not compatible with Helix Multimedia Cloaking

        I recently bought and installed Helix Software's Multimedia
Cloaking (from the makers of Netroom).  After installing their cloaking
drivers for MSCDEX and CACHECLK (cloaked replacement for SMARTDRV), I found
that Mega-Em 2.03 would no longer work.  It gives a "EMM compatibility
problem: Can not expand server GDT" error.  I've try using both 386MAX 7
and DOS 6.2's EMM386 for EMM drivers, but neither work if the CLOAKING.EXE
driver is loaded.  I tried using the -RGDT and -FGDT options of Mega-Em
as well, but all they do is lock up the system.  At this point, Mega-Em
is the only application that I have found that is not compatible with
the Multimedia Cloaking drivers.

        I looked through prior digests, and all I could find is that
Mega-Em starting with V2.02 supports Netroom 3.  But it appears that the
cloaking driver for Multimedia Cloaking is different than the one for
Netroom 3.

        Gravis, does the new Mega-Em that we have all been waiting for
since before Christmas fix this problem as well?  Can't we see an alpha
or beta version of the new Mega-Em like we did for MAXSBOS?  I'm sure
that you'd have hundreds of users that would gladly Beta site test it
for you, running many more applications than you have internally.

        My configuration:  486DX33VLB, DOS6.2, WfWG 3.11, GUS 2.4 with 1MB,
V3.59 GUS software.

                                        Thanks...Tom

_____      ___     Tom L. Schmidt, Manager, Component Characterization
  |  |    /   \    Micron Technology, Inc.
  |  |    \___     2805 E. Columbia Rd.  Mail Stop 376  P.O. Box 6
  |  |        \    Boise, Idaho USA  83707-0006
  |  |____\___/    tschmidt@pefs1.micron.com

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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 95 7:54:42 WET
From: MAMMET Jean-Francois <mammet@univ-mlv.fr>
Subject: Re: Megarace

In yesterday's digest Terry Lee asked for info about megarace with the gus.

There is a patch available directly from cryo on most bbs (didn't check on ftp,
but I can't seem why they would'nt be there too)
This patch allows you to use sbos with this game.

I'd like to say that this game was programed to have a native gus support
with soudtracks music. I know from the musician from Cryo that these soudtracks
where ready, and even ths gus routines ! As I know, Interplay didn't wanted to
include the gus support, but I don't know why ...

That's the same thing with dragon lore !
But with Commander Blood, the latest game from Cryo, you'll have a gus native
support in the new version, not the first one (they had a lat minute bug)
If you like impressive musics, you can buy it, it's awesome !
--
Mamos Of Lego System, Aka Jean Francois Mammet
mammet@merlin.univ-mlv.fr

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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 22:42:59 +0000 (GMT)
From: Quentinus <Samuel.Marshall@durham.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Midi-in

On Wed, 18 Jan 1995, GUS Server wrote:

> jase@nedlog.demon.co.uk (Jason Nedlog) writes:
>
> > All gus functions (wav and midi) appear to work perfectly from both DOS and
> > Windows except MIDI-IN which does nothing.
>
> > However I suspect that I can reject hardware/connector/wiring failure as if
I
> > use the midifier.exe, MIDI-IN works OK.
>
> Most likely is that your new motherboard doesn't support NMI. It is used by
> SBOS and by Windows for MIDI IN. If possible, bring your system back as it's
> not really an 100% IBM PC Compatible...I'd check it out via SBOS to be sure...

Do you use Stacker? If so, Novell's DPMI function causes MIDI-IN to work
incorrectly.. the solution is not to use the DPMI loader (Gravis tech
support say they're working on the problem). This problem really got me
bad 'cos I was working on a midi-sequencer at the time... it suddenly
stopped working, and I thought it was my program, when it was Stacker...

By the way, we can't get UAKM to give sound, even though it uses HMI
drivers. Music is fine and the card autodetects right, but the sound
is garbled. (It seems to play 1/2 a second, then skip a second, then play
1/2 a second, etc). Is there a fix for this? The manual says it's because
our video card is too slow (which it is) but this shouldn't affect the
game when it's not displaying any video (eg the sound setup, or when you
look at an item).

Sam

--> Home Page <-- ** Go on, try it! ** --> http://www.dur.ac.uk/~d405ua <--

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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 15:22:42 GMT
From: "Mark D. Billinge" <PPYLMDB@ppn3.physics.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: Playmidi ideas

I was just using Playmidi, and thought how nice it would be if there
was a realtime oscilloscope or FFT display.  I doubt it's beyond the
speed of many PCs to do this, and surely it's just a matter of
fiddling with the data from the line or mic in of the GUS, which
seems to contain the synthesized output - at least it does on mine!

Just a thought, but it would look very impressive.

Mark

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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 94 23:58:09 -0800
From: drkszk@ocf.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: GUS HMI update

        For those of you who have had problems with audio skips and distortion
in HMI-based games, I have some further info:
        There is a timer problem in the GUS HMI driver.  HMI is aware of it and
is notifying game companies of how to work around it.  In the meantime, you can
get rid of the skips by lowering your ISA bus speed until they go away (7.19MHz
for my machine).  You'll probably take a performance hit, though.

Derek
drkszk@ocf.berkeley.edu

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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 08:34:11 MET
From: "Roy Koesters" <KOSTERS@brc.medtronic.com>
Subject: GUSMAX & WIN95

Hello,

I do not know if this is a frequently aksed question but I am
considering installing/trying WIN95 on my system. Because I am very
pleased with my GUSMAX, I use it for games, music (MIDI & TRACKERS), I
would like to know if I can still go on using my GUSMAX as I am
used to.

Are there allready drivers available for WIN95 or will the WIN3.x
drivers do???

Thanx,

Roy Koesters

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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 21:24:36 GMT+2
From: "Henry Timmerman" <HENRY@vm1.vm.ee>
Subject: GUSMAX's memory upgrade ?

Hello!

Can anyone tell me what DRAM chip to use when upgrading GUS Max from
512KB to 1MB ? I know it must be 256x16, 40 pin, surface mount DRAM,
but what I'm asking is can I find that kind of a chip from f.e. any
network or display adapter ?
Any help is appreciated !

P.S. What is that MAXSBOS so many people been talking about ?

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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 95 15:43:32 PST
From: "Ferdinand Mataragnon" <E3140016@BCITVM.BCIT.BC.CA>
Subject: GUS MAX memory chips

Hello. How many memory chips does the max use? Also, could someone
please give me the numbers so I can find the right one? Lastly,
are the chips surface mount type?

Thanks in advance.

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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 16:35:38 -0500 (EST)
From: Kai Wu <kw10@crux2.cit.cornell.edu>
Subject: Help with mic recording needed!

        I can't seem to record properly with the GUS under Windoze.  I'm
using a microphone (an Apple Mac mono mike with a stereo plug) which I've
already tested with a tape recorder and it worked fine there.  When I use
Sound Recorder or Goldwave under Win 3.1, I have to shout into the mike
at the top of my lungs before even the faintest sound is recorded; a
regular volume voice is not picked up at all.
        I've tried fiddling around with the ultrinit.ini, setting the mic
input levels and gain to numbers like 75 and 100, but with no luck.  Can any
fellow GUSer out there shed the light??

Kai

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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 14:01:21 GMT+0100
From: "F. Viktor" <VIKTOR@evt.bme.hu>
Subject: MAXSBOS

What about maxsbos.zip?
I read that this is a SB emulator for MAX only?
What is the difference between GUS and GUS MAX, i mean that
difference, that this program uses?

Why is it better than SBOS? What is it at all?
Did somebody tried it out?
It is new, it is in the submit dir on every GUS FTP site.
It is 1 Megabyte long! Please tell me something about it!!!

Viktor

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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 95 15:41:13 CST
From: Steve Sesterhenn at Zenith_SCS <smtplink%Steve_Sesterhenn_at_Zenith__SCS@J
anus-ccm.zenithe.com>
Subject: MegaEm for Protected Mode

     Hey All,

     I don't have convenient access to the digest and haven't been up on
     things lately.  Is the new Megaem for Protected mode out yet?  If not,
     what is the latest expected date of release?

     By the way, anyone been able to get the Dark Forces demo to produce
     ANY sound out of a GUS?  It runs entirely in DOS/4GW protected mode,
     but it has no native GUS support and won't even recognize SBOS.  Has
     anyone had any luck with this?
     Oh, Descent rocks with the GUS.  Kicks the crap out of dinky SB.  If
     you have problems try running it from a boot disk with bare minimums,
     like just the ultrasound init stuff and environmental vars.

     Thanks for any and all help regarding MegaEm and/or Dark Forces,

     Steve Sesterhenn

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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 14:28:34 -0600
From: Tom Sedlack <toms@superman.rtsg.mot.com>
Subject: Revision Upgrade Path

I am currently running v3.53 (with the windows patch applied) on my 1 MEG
GUS.  I was going to upgrade the software to v3.57.  My question is, do
I need to go to v3.56 first or can I go straight to 3.57??  Are there any
features/utilties/programs included with 3.56 that are not in 3.57??

Thanks,

Tom

toms@superman.rtsg.mot.com

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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 95 11:28:06 EST
From: GREGO FILIPPO <e303724@er.uqam.ca>
Subject: subscribe

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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 13:23:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Matt Bachand <raistlin@cts.com>
Subject: System Shock CD W/Digital Sound?
Message-ID: <Pine.SCO.3.91.950119132141.24894A-100000@crash.cts.com>

I can get the Music to work fine in SYSTEM-SHOCK CD, but I can't get the
Digital sound to. It freezes once I turn up the volume to hear a sound.
It defaults to off, then i turn up the volume in SYSTEM SHOCK to get the
sound to come out, i hear a few seconds of something, then it freezes and
reboots my computer. I have a p-90 Plato w/16megs of ram. Please help.

BTW, i am using AIL30 *.MDI and *.DIG files. I tried to copy them over
Sblasters', and awe-32's sound files, freezes on both. PLEASE HELP!

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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 09:10:18 +0100
From: Martin Laukkanen <martin@triode.apana.org.au>
Subject: Us Navy Fighter with GUS

        I would like to know how US Navy Fighter works on GUS's out
there, I want to buy it but my friend said that it doesnt support GUS and
he couldnt get any sound from it! Someone must have has some experience
with it?

Thanks in advance..

----
Random OF xTatic....
or      Martin OF Laukkanen.    (martin@triode.apana.org.au)

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