GUS Daily Digest Tue, 8 Feb 94 007 Volume 11: Issue 6 Today's Topics: 32bit AIL question Another Syndicate/AIL Twitch Capt. CaaaaveeeMaaannn! EA's NHL Hockey. Getting sound with Ultima VII Part 2 GUS install ver3.1 under OS/2 GUS settings many places Megaem and World Circuit MODUS NMI No TREMSTR.PAT...help! Question about gusmod SBOS is for 256K, huh? SBOS w/1 meg RAM WfW 3.11 ??? What motherboard and chipset work with GUS? Standard Info: - Meta-info about the GUS can be found at the end of the Digest. - Before you ask a question, please READ THE FAQ. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 18:14:38 -0800 (PST) From: jtang@argon.chem.ucla.edu (James Tang) Subject: 32bit AIL question Can anyone explain why the 32 bit version of AIL doesn't need a TSR or any of that sort of program to make it work? It is as if with 32 bit the GUS have native support. What's the technical/non-technical reasons behind it? james ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 13:18:14 -0700 From: Paul Tucker <tucker@homer.fc.hp.com> Subject: Another Syndicate/AIL Twitch Gus-heads: I installed the new AIL drivers in Syndicate. I made the jazz guitar mod to the .ini file. Sounds great!; however, there is one minor but exasperating problem. Once I'm done killing rival syndicate thugs and exit to DOS, I invariably get a DoubleSpace protection fault #16. If you have ever seen this error you know that it can be a religious experience, since it forces you to reboot and claims that all of your data could be lost. After I changed my shorts the first time, I checked out the FILE001.CHK only to find that it was unrecognizable crap. I deleted it. No resulting system problems, but I don't have any of my system files (or Syndicate files, or GUS files) compressed. Wierd, eh? Oh, one other little thing: If I shorten the intro and the Bullfrog title screen (by mouse-clicking), the GUS seems to output all of it's patches in sequence, over and over. If I don't shorten the Bullfrog title screen, this doesn't happen. Not a big deal, but........ Comments? Suggestions? Cash contributions? Paul Tucker tucker@homer.fc.hp.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 19:18:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Toby <T.W.Nichols@hertfordshire.ac.uk> Subject: Capt. CaaaaveeeMaaannn! Er? Whats this Dust 3D demo? where can I get it (it's not on ftp.uwp.edu)? Joe said it was part of a 20Mb demo and therefore won't be available for down load. WHY NOT? lack of diskspace on the ftp sites? I doubt that. *** _______ _____ _____ . . *** *** | | | | | | | *** *** | | | | << \ / *** *** | |_____| |_____| | *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pessimism? It'll never work. ------------------------------ Date: 07 Feb 1994 13:53:05 -0500 (EST) From: Iago <URZNTCB@grove.iup.edu> Subject: EA's NHL Hockey. O.k.. here's my problem. Although there is a reference in the README file, SBOS continues to not work with NHL Hockey. Here's what it does. It works fine up to the point where it has to load the playing portion of the game. (ie. It will give me the lineups, then freeze.) Does anyone have a clue as to what I am doing wrong? Thanks in advance. ]<urt ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 09:25:43 -0800 (PST) From: Eli Bingham <ebingham@tcsgi.mhs.mendocino.k12.ca.us> Subject: Getting sound with Ultima VII Part 2 Okay, I've tried EVERYTHING to get sound in this game. I patched in the AIL drivers but they don't work (says "can't initialize sound card") and there's barely enough RAM to load Ultramid (U7P2 makes you disable all memory managers, so no loadhi'ing). Mega-Em is of course braindead with an EMM (why does it NEED an EMM, anyway?). So, is there some sort of patch out there? Somebody help! Also...does anyone know whether Ultima VIII will have native support? ========================================================================== Eli Bingham ebingham@tcsgi.mhs.mendocino.k12.ca.us ebingha@ctp.org ========================================================================== "NASA sucks. Huh huh huh, huh huh." "Yeah. Heh heh, heh heh." "They gave us a stupid DN. tcsgi.mhs.mendocino.k12.ca.us. Huh huh huh, huh huh." "Yeah. That sucks! Heh heh, eh heh heh." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Feb 1994 16:22:24 +0200 From: CRTGRA01@Uctvax.UCT.AC.ZA Subject: GUS install ver3.1 under OS/2 Hello All, I have been using my GUS for some time now under DOS. Recently I have upgraded to OS/2. I am trying to use the version 3.1 installation but am having a problem when selecting the Ultrasound IRQ in the SETGUS program. My Ultrasound is at base address 210 as I have 3 com ports and am running SIO for my comms driver and it doesn't like anything except com ports at addresses 220 to 260. Every time I try and test the Ultrasound IRQ the session crashes. Can anybody help me through this as I know there are folks out there who have had success (in a limited way) with their GUS'es under OS/2. BTW if I do a version 1.21 install (Gravis *still* have not sent me my 2.06 disks) it installs perfectly and I can play my MIDI files with no problem. Any ideas?? Mnay thanks for the time and trouble, Grant ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Feb 1994 12:20:36 -0800 From: Harlan Hilman <hilman@ichips.intel.com> Subject: GUS settings What do I need to set my GUS to for: Doom Civ Master of Orion F117 X-Wing ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 23:36:58 +0100 (MET) From: richard ritsma <rr2@dds.hacktic.nl> Subject: many places I am new in the Cyberspace, but as a GUS owner i am spoilt to see so many places (sites) who's carry's software for de GUS! How is that possible, is this a sort of new advertizing? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Feb 1994 12:56:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Kids run for the nutritious taste of Sampo <JKS4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> Subject: Megaem and World Circuit Megaem will not produce any sounds in World Circuit since all sounds during the game are FM- as of yet, megaem does not get FM sounds. This was mentioned in yesterday's digest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Improving the world is a simple prospect; take | Jeffrey K. Salzmann - - these easy steps: | RIT (A 4 year school)- - 1) Kill any happy accordian players, especially | Sick of it, really! - - those dorky looking ones that 'jam' | Fly Benneton-Ford! - - 2) Kill any idiot that drives 40 MPH in the | Eater of pizza - - left lane using a cellular phone | Send $$$$ - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 94 16:31:55 EST From: dmcintyr@muselab.ac.runet.edu Subject: MODUS Is there any way to contact the author of MODUS through the Net? I have absolutely no idea why, but any MODs that I created with ModEdit will not play properly. All the samples get distorted. I tried loading the offending MODs into KingMod for DOS and then re-saving them, hoping that might correct the problem, but no dice. Whatever's unique about these particular MODs doesn't bother GUSMOD, WinMOD, or MODPLAY (for Sound Blaster only) but it does bother MODUS for some reason. It's as though the samples in these MODs are in a different format or something, which I know to be false, since I ripped almost all of the samples used in the MODs in question from other MODs, all of which play just fine. Any ideas on this one folks? How 'bout I upload one of the offending MODs and see what sort of luck everyone has with it? I never suspected anything might be funny about these MODs before, but something must be non-standard. (Oh, BTW, they all play just fine with the GUS hack for Wolf3D too, so MODUS is definitely the odd man out for not being able to play them properly.) --Michael-- << dmcintyr@muselab.ac.runet.edu >> <<dmcintyr@vt.edu>> ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 10:41:00 -0500 From: terry.gritzan@dt-can.com (Terry Gritzan) Subject: NMI 1. Well I upgraded to a 386DX40 board and got one with the "nmi procedure disabled". Could someone explain what this means? Will this cause any other problems than not being able to run SBOS? I'm not terribly hurt by that. Sounds like it is time to pick up a cheap SB for real compatibility. 2. I am using Megaem to get SB DAC support in the meantime. Are their any plans to work on or release a non-protected mode megaem? Thanks in advance terry.gritzan@dt-can.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 09:29:42 -0800 (PST) From: Eli Bingham <ebingham@tcsgi.mhs.mendocino.k12.ca.us> Subject: No TREMSTR.PAT...help! Hello- I just upgraded to v3.1 of the GUS software. The software I had before was rather old (HONKTONK.PAT instead of HONKY.PAT) and now it seems there is a 'new' patch which I don't have (TREMSTR.PAT, Tremelo Strings). Is there some way someone could uuencode this .PAT file and email it to me? I'd appreciate it. ========================================================================== Eli Bingham ebingham@tcsgi.mhs.mendocino.k12.ca.us ebingha@ctp.org ========================================================================== "NASA sucks. Huh huh huh, huh huh." "Yeah. Heh heh, heh heh." "They gave us a stupid DN. tcsgi.mhs.mendocino.k12.ca.us. Huh huh huh, huh huh." "Yeah. That sucks! Heh heh, eh heh heh." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 94 08:28:08 PST From: Rick Skalsky <skalsky@aaai.org> Subject: Question about gusmod I'm running a 386-40 with the gus using 2.06 disks and have had a problem develop. Everything in windows works fine, but the dos gusmod and mod demos just lock up when I try to run them with the gus included mod files. Oddly, dmp plays mods fine. Any ideas what's going on? When I run gusmod, the file is loaded, then the screen locks up and I never hear anything. They initially worked when I installed them under Dos 6.2 with Netroom memory manager and I have tried re-installing the gus software still using the same irq's and addresses. Oddly, everything else works fine, mididemo and all gus windows programs. I've made no other changes to my system which has 16 megs of memory, and 1 meg on the gus. Gusmod and moddemo or whatever it's called used to work fine with this setup. No other cards or system software have been added. Let me know if anyone has any ideas. Thanks, Rich ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 09:49:32 -0700 (MST) From: shannon@physics.Arizona.EDU (Shannon Miller) Subject: SBOS is for 256K, huh? Very interesting. I still find it suprising that a more lifelike representation of the SoundBlaster cannot be obtained, since SBOS is hardly what I would term a "full emulation" (whereas MegaEm is right on the money). Now that I hear SBOS was developed for 256K boards... would a 1MB board sound better, and if so, can it be done? All the people I know have already or would be willing to upgrade the memory on their GUS to 1MB. Doesn't seem like an unreasonable request... By the way, how many programmers are there at Gravis, anyhow? The references constantly made on this mailing service make it seem like there's only one or two... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 17:45:34 -0500 (EST) From: gt7039a@prism.gatech.edu (An anonymous word of wisdom.) Subject: SBOS w/1 meg RAM SBOS only is optimized for 256k of memory, right? Would there be any was to produce a SBOS that took advantage of the full meg of RAM? Is this possible for better FM emulation? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 00:28:04 -0500 From: gmyles@cml.com (MajorBBS: Amber) Subject: WfW 3.11 ??? Has anyone tried the newest (or any for that matter) Windows drivers with Windows for Workgroups 3.11 Add-on for Windows (try saying that 5 times fast). This is billed as Microsoft's intermediate upgrade for Windows while we wait until the end of the year for Win 4.0. It includes a fair bit of 32 bit features that Microsoft claims speeds Windows up by 50%. I have heard real world reports of about 30%. - Thanks - Garry Myles ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 03:07:33 -0600 (CST) From: cycheah@mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu (Chor Yee Cheah) Subject: What motherboard and chipset work with GUS? DATE: Feb 7th 1994, 0305 FROM: Chor-Yee, Cheah SUBJECT: What motherboard or chipset works with GUS? I have been a happy GUS owner since the day I bought it, JAN 93. I was using a 386DX25 motherboard with CHIPS chip set and IIT 25Mhz math-co. GUS works great on it. However, my mother board was spoiled when I was trying to take out my math-co processor to play "DOOM" :-(. Now I've to get a new motherboard. I'm thinking of get a 486dlc40 VLB or a 486slc40 VLB motherboard. But, after calling few places, that I found in Computer Shopper, all of them seems to use OPTI chipset :-(. Is the old OPTI problem fixed? What's is the lastest update on that? It seems that I hardly them in the net nowadays. Is there any motherboard that won't work with GUS? Will there be problem if I would like to use midi in device on windows or dos? I have try running GUS on my friend's UMC motherboard. At first the sbos did not work. But thanks to gravis the SBOS v36 works and solve the NMI problem. GUS work fine in windows, however, when I hooked up keyboard (synth) to the midi in, it didn't work :-(. How do I know the motherboard has working NMI? Anyone knows what motherboard has working NMI and what does not have? Any suggestions where to get working NMI motherboard? Somebody please help, I can't live without GUS :-( Thanks. Patrick Cheah (cycheah@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu) ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V11 #6 ******************************