GUS Daily Digest Sun, 6 Feb 94 007 Volume 11: Issue 4 Today's Topics: [GUS] New Software -- MIDI in Windows Digital sound with Mortal Kombat? EPAS, gus0037, gus0038 and all the rest of it.... Epas is all messed up fast ftp site Getting Mega-Em to work?! GUS0038 gus0038 @ archive.orst.edu GUS Daily Digest V11 #3 GUS Daily Digest V5 #2 GUS demo of cavemen. midi access No MIDI sound in Windows with new drivers(GUS0038.zip)?! playmidi probs? install or not Problems with MODUS revisited SBOS 3.7 locks up on unload Spectre VR Windows Midi with new drivers You can find GUS0038.ZIP at... 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: Sun, 6 Feb 94 01:56:07 -0500 From: Phat H Tran <ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca> Subject: [GUS] New Software -- MIDI in Windows Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard Anybody not getting MIDI output in Windows after installing the new drivers in gus0038.zip, just delete your old ultrasnd.ini from your \ultrasnd directory, and use the restore file(s) option in setup.exe to copy the new ultrasnd.ini over to your \ultrasnd directory. Then just start up Windows. No need to edit the PatchDir fields as the new Windows driver will do it for you. The reason the new ultrasnd.ini wasn't copied over by the install program in the first place is that it has a rather old date stamp (circa Dec. 1993), and install.exe only copies over files that are newer than the ones you already have in your \ultrasnd directory and its subdirectories. Many people have edited ultrasnd.ini or had it updated by some other program, and, as a result, have a copy of ultrasnd.ini dated later than the one on the new install disks. Phat. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 12:31:39 -0500 From: TOMMYLEE@uhura.trinity.toronto.edu Subject: Digital sound with Mortal Kombat? Has anyone managed to get digital sound to work with Mortal Kombat? Tommy. ------------------------------ Date: 5 Feb 94 15:52 -0800 From: Thomas Wong <twong@civil.ubc.ca> Subject: EPAS, gus0037, gus0038 and all the rest of it.... OK, first to all the new comers of Internet, ftp, submit directory and where to find newly submitted files......etc. [Here is one more thing to put into the FAQ?] Whenever something new comes out, it gets submitted to the submit directory of _some_ ftp site. In fact, people find things very quickly hence normally within the first hour someone uploads it to a ftp site, we'd see tons of messages on it already. So in our case, since we're talking Ultrasound archive hence Ultrasound files, files are submitted to ..... Ftp site "archive.epas.utoronto.ca", Directory "pub/pc/ultrasound/submit". Now every couple of weeks, I go and validate these files, make sure they should be on our archive, are virus free, actually works....etc. Then I move them to the appropriate directories in our archive. Which then in term gets mirrored all over the world to our other archive sites. So in more cases than not, when something new and wonderful comes along and everyone is talking about it, it is probably still sitting in the above mention submission directory. With that said..... Now, our current problem. Something happened to epas and the submit dir is empty. We, the GUS admins, have been trying to figure out what happened all of yesterday but have been unable to contact Adam, the real sys admin of epas. The way things are setup is that the submit directory actually gets its own filesystem and the mounting point is the submit dir. Last morning, this filesystem was unmounted for some reason. So we can only assume that epas was having problems and Adam had to unmount it for repair reasons and is up to his neck with trying to get things going hence hasn't replied to us yet. One thing for all to note though. You can gain access to our full archive through our other GUS ftp sites. For example, archive.orst.edu is our official North American full GUS archive site and it even has a mirror of the submit directory (as does other of our ftp sites) So you can still download yet-to-be-validated files from these sites. The only problem, till we get epas going again, is no submissions. But you can still download. And for all those who complaints that epas is too slow and what not, just remember that we have OTHER ftp sites. We have archives all over the world. And they _do_ mirror epas's submit directory as well. This is the beauty of our setup so that if something goes wrong, we can fall back on all of our other sites around the world. So.... Here is the list of our sites with directory info.... Thomas. ============================================================================== FTP Sites Archive Directories --------- ------------------- Main N.American Site: archive.orst.edu pub/packages/gravis wuarchive.wustl.edu systems/ibmpc/ultrasound Main Asian Site: nctuccca.edu.tw PC/ultrasound European Callers ONLY: theoris.rz.uni-konstanz.de pub/sound/gus Submissions: archive.epas.utoronto.ca pub/pc/ultrasound/submit Newly Validated Files: archive.epas.utoronto.ca pub/pc/ultrasound Mirrors: garbo.uwasa.fi mirror/ultrasound MailServer For Archive Access: Email to <mail-server@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 Feb 1994 12:24:33 -0500 From: "Mark the @#$%*" <MJHEMELG@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU> Subject: Epas is all messed up What happen to epas, the submit directory is empty and all the directory dates are screwed up. On another note for all you people looking for gus0037 and gus0038 they are still alive and well on archive.orst.edu in the pub/packages/gravis/submit directory. Happy Gus'in Bye ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 94 09:12:51 PST From: ebulalacao@csupomona.edu Subject: fast ftp site Here's a faster FTP site.... archive.orst.edu I usually get like 20kbytes+ on transfers... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 94 20:14:15 PST From: uc931@freenet.victoria.bc.ca (Eddy Piasentin) Subject: Getting Mega-Em to work?! Hi everyone, (This is my first post, so if it something is wrong, no abuse...thnks) Anyway, I got mega-em after reading about how people loved it, etc... and nothing I do gets it to work with my GUS. In particular, I want to see if it produces better sound than SBOS in World Circuit, but when its loaded and seemingly running like it should, there is no sound effects or anything at all. What should I do? I am fairly new to the world of GUS and sound cards in general so any advice is appreciated. Also, does having more memory on the GUS improve the sound effects for games, or does it primarily help with music files and composition, etc.?? I am wondering if I should bother with the upgrade. Again, with World Circuit using SBOS the engine sounds a bit musical...its not *that* bad, but its a bit of a let down, but if more memory will help, then I will try it out. Thanks for all the help. -- ************************************************************************ | Eddy Piasentin uc931@freenet.victoria.bc.ca | | Victoria, British Columbia (CANADA!) | ************************************************************************ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 01:24:10 -0700 (MST) From: "Shawn T. Rutledge" <rutledge@enuxsa.eas.asu.edu> Subject: GUS0038 Hi. I've heard a lot of comments about GUS0038.zip, but I can't find it on epas. Maybe it got deleted. Can somebody repost it? -- _______ KB7PWD (_ | |_) shawn.rutledge@asu.edu __) | | \__________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 09:35:47 -0500 From: Dale Luther Bewley <dbewley@tech.iupui.edu> Subject: gus0038 @ archive.orst.edu It's @ archive.orst.edu /pub/packages/gravis/submit I believe, but be forewarned, it's a mess in there! :-) _________________________________________________________________________ ANIMALS ARE NOT FOOD! _____________________________________________dbewley@etsun.tech.iupui.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 12:52:14 -0500 (EST) From: jennifer carson <jcarson@bach.helios.nd.edu> Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V11 #3 To those who are having trouble finding the gus0038.zip files, try: archive.orst.edu in the pub/packages/gravis/submit directory... That is where I got my copy of the file(s)... (They work just peachy-fine, and install was a breeze...) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 94 17:38:51 PST From: Scott Bobo <scott@mothra.rose.hp.com> Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V5 #2 Hi all - I tried running Wing Commander II the other night and found that after the first couple of words on speech at the beginning, the speech stopped. The music continued, and the storyline went on to the next shot, but then stoppped there. Anyone seen this before? The last time I ran it I was using a 386DX40 motherboard, and now I'm using a 486DX40 overclocked to 50MHz. Several other things have changed in the meantime, but even with an absolutely basic CONFIG and AUTOEXEC, it still hangs. Any tips? I'd be surprised to learn that the new motherboard was causing such a specific problem. But then, maybe not. Scott ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 08:08:19 -0800 (PST) From: swoo@netcom.com (Sky Woo) Subject: GUS demo of cavemen. The other day I was at Fry's Electronics and I saw a Gravis Ultrasound setup with boxes of GUSes around a computer with a GUS in the system. On the computer there was this demo of several cavemen, bashing soundcards to pieces. The soundcards had the names of SB, PAS, and Adlib. After cracking the soundcards in half, a big earth quake occured and the earth split. Out of the big crack in the ground, an Ultrasound emerged. The cavemen were shocked. There were also some other parts to this presentation. There was the vector world flyby part from Second Reality. Parts from the 3D sounds demo by DUST. There was also this other demo by Epical promoting the GUS. So my question is, does anyone know where this demo is. I'd like to see it again. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 94 18:20:51 PST From: bmuell@odel.sp.trw.com (Bernie Mueller) Subject: midi access After upgrading via gus0038, my problems with the SB/midi conflict seemed to disappear when testing the installation with setgus. However, now Recording Session, Power Chords, etc generate no sound. In fact, the windows media player cannot be made to produce sound either. Before the upgrade, I could get sound but nothing through the Ultra Sound midi adapter: now I have lost the sound also. However, now as well as before, the sound associated with games (xwing, wing commander,etc) is fine. Any suggestions, anyone? Bernie Mueller ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 94 15:04:48 PST From: chrism@huey.nic.bc.ca (Chris Mackay @SO) Subject: No MIDI sound in Windows with new drivers(GUS0038.zip)?! I just installed the new drivers in GUS0038.ZIP, and from the DOS side, they look real good and some of the midi files seem to sound better as well. I also installed them into Windows, but don't get any sound from MIDI files. I fire up MidiSoft, and it plays 'em but there is no sound. I might not have MidiSoft configured for MM Windows now that I think about it. But if you have any further suggestions, please leave me a note here or via email. Thanks!!! The SB is dead, long live the GUS!!!!!! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 94 12:58:51 CST From: Jim English <jenglish@hpserv.keh.utulsa.edu> Subject: playmidi probs? install or not I just got gus0038.zip, and im debating not to install it due to the listed probs people r having with playmidi. I read something about new patches in the new full install disks (something like 192 and it used to be 189 or something), would this cause any other probs? Where can we order the new install disks? when? how much? I'd rather install all the new files than chance patch # problems. -jim -- ______________________________________________________________________________ Jim English - jenglish@hpserv.keh.utulsa.edu / EJP51823@vax1.utulsa.edu ______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 94 10:23:03 EST From: dmcintyr@muselab.ac.runet.edu Subject: Problems with MODUS revisited >> pretty worthless to me. WinMOD may not sound that great, but it doesn't >> drag like that. >MODUS is just as light on the CPU as a DOS GUS MOD player, so CPU speed >isn't your problem (I have a 386-33 and MODUS runs full speed on it). >You might have another program which is trying to use the WAV/MIDI portion >of the GUS driver at the same time that MODUS is running. MODUS requires >sole possession of the GF1, so anything that attempts to play sounds or >music through the GUS at the same time as MODUS will screw up or cause >MODUS to screw up. Actually, that brings up another point. GUSMOD doesn't work at all. It hasn't worked since I changed my GUS over to 240,5,5,11,5. Not that it's a major loss or anything. As far as MODUS, I determined what the problem is. I'm not exactly sure WHY this is the case, but any MODs that were created/edited with MODEDIT 2.00 (an old and really crappy MOD editor that I used to use back when I actually cared about MODs) will drag and otherwise get distorted to the point of sounding terrible. It just so happened that the only MODs I tried were ones I had composed myself, and they were all screwed up. When I played some other MODs they were fine. So, that brings me to my next question: What's a good MOD editor/tracker type thing that works with the GUS so I can load and re-save these things to get rid of whatever flakey thing is in there? --Michael-- << dmcintyr@muselab.ac.runet.edu >> <<dmcintyr@vt.edu>> ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 18:53:33 -0800 (PST) From: mikebat@netcom.com (Mike Batchelor) Subject: Re: SBOS 3.7 locks up on unload Not the GUS Server once wrote... $ $ ------------------------------ $ $ Date: Fri, 04 Feb 1994 12:42:36 -0400 (EDT) $ From: DMC5483@ritvax.isc.rit.edu $ Subject: Little problems with new Gravis soft $ $ And a little comment, I also lost keyboard control when I $ unloaded the new SBOS (using -f) from memory!!1 This happens to me, too. I do not have to USE it, just load, then unload, bang - keyboard dead, time to reset. It requires no other software whatsoever (except DOS, of course) to reproduce this. Otherwise, it seems to work just fine. As long as I do not unload it, I can continue to use the PC. -- Mike Batchelor | UseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinuxUseLinux mikebat@netcom.com | xuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesUxuniLesU ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 Feb 94 12:27:35 MST From: Juggler <IH23%UTEP.bitnet@UTEPVM.EP.UTEXAS.EDU> Subject: Spectre VR Has anyone gotten the GUS to work with Spectre VR?!? I've tried SBOS and MegaEM (the latest in the 38 pack). Can anyone send any hints my way?? --- - = Juggler = - [ IRC: jugular - vrave: jug ] IH23@utep.bitnet IH23%utep@utepvm.ep.utexas.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Sometimes I wonder about the karmic implications of our actions" -Farmer Vincent in "Motel Hell" --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 Feb 94 04:50:39 EST From: beanstalk8@aol.com Subject: Windows Midi with new drivers I am not getting any windows midi with the new drivers, I can load mod's and wav's, though, and everything else works ok. I can't even load any patches. I have 1 meg of memory. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 21:05:17 +0200 From: Ori Peleg <orip@CS.HUJI.AC.IL> Subject: You can find GUS0038.ZIP at... Hello all. Yesterday's digest was totally crammed with 'where can I find GUS0038.ZIP' messages, so I just thought to give you all a pointer. It isn't on EPAS, at least I couldn't find it there at any directory, but after half an hour of searching I remebered that EPAS has this disk-space problem. So, I found that it IS available at 'archive.orst.edu', at the directory '/pub/packages/gravis/submit'. Simple, no? Bye. - Save a plant - eat a vegeterian. ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V11 #4 ******************************