Ultrasound Daily Digest Tue, 19 Jan 93 Volume 2 : Issue 16 Today's Topics: 669 composer GUS Press Release: Midisoft Recording Session to be bundled GUS Press Release: Power Chords to be bundled Has anyone got the MIDI working? I need assistance... Hey! Turn it up! (but be carefull) More Uploads Note to Brad Craig. OPTi and GUS SC2, GUS, and noise solution Simultaneous playback/record. Tons of Software for GUS! Ultrasound Daily Digest V2 #15 Ultrasound FTP Sites News (+ OS/2) Information about the UltraSound Daily Digest (such as mail addresses, request servers, ftp sites, etc., etc.) can be found at the end of the Digest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1993 12:48:02 +0700 (MST) From: Adam Cowen Message-Id: Subject: 669 composer To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Hi, has anyone been able to get the 669 composer on epas to work. I am using sbos v1.22 release version. I have also tried the sys driver and the 1.23 beta version. I have tried all of the combinations and nothing works, it always says that it can't find the Soundblaster. BTW the -o3 option will lock up my computer always. Any help is appreciated? Hmmm, will there be a 669 composer out supporting native gus? Adam Cowen ------------------------------ Date: 16 Jan 93 12:53:32 GMT From: bs@mda.ca (Bruce Sharpe) Message-Id: <3959@mdavcr.mda.ca> Subject: GUS Press Release: Midisoft Recording Session to be bundled To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Just found this on the Gravis BBS ((604) 431-5927): January 15, 1993 Advanced Gravis FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: ADVANCED GRAVIS AND MIDISOFT SIGN LICENSING AGREEMENT Advanced Gravis Computer Technology Ltd. and Midisoft Corporation have signed an agreement whereby Midisoft music authoring software will be bundled together with Advanced Gravis UltraSound(tm) multimedia PC hardware. The world-wide, non-exclusive licensing agreement extends to the end of 1993. Under the terms of the agreement, Gravis will license Midisoft Recording Session for Windows and a collection of MIDI songs for inclusion in the retail versions of the Gravis UltraSound sound card. The bundle will give users the ability to easily play, compose, record, and edit MIDI music for personal, business, or educational purposes. "A large percentage of our sound card customers are Windows users anxious to experiment with music composition and MIDI," said Grant Russell, Advanced Gravis president. "These customers are going to find our CD-quality sound and Midisoft's revolutionary software hard to beat, especially at the price. Gravis UltraSound, released in early October 1992, is a 16-bit 44.1 kHz, 32 voice stereo sound card with support for Standard MIDI, 256K of on-board memory, and a speed-compensating game port. UltraSound features wave table synthesis for true professional quality musical instrument reproduction. It features Ad Lib(tm) and Sound Blaster(tm) compatibility and supports Windows Multimedia Extensions. The suggested retail of the UltraSound bundle is $199.95 and will begin shipping in March 1993. Midisoft Recording Session for Windows is a notation-based MIDI sequencer that displays standard music notation in realtime during recording, editing, and playback. The program converts a PC into a multi-track recording studio. With the program, users with little if any music knowledge can easily edit existing MIDI files - such as those being included in the Gravis/Midisoft bundle. Amateur musicians and hobbyists with a knowledge of music can use the software to compose and record original music. "Our Recording Session is a sophisticated music authoring tool that's easy enough to use by mainstream Window users," said Raymond Bily, Midisoft CEO. Founded in 1986, Midisoft Corporation is a privately held company rapidly becoming recognized as the leader in music software technology for Windows. The Redmond, Washington firm develops a line of Windows, DOS, VIS, and Atari software which enhances the music experience of people of all ages and levels of music proficiency. Advanced Gravis designs, manufactures and markets high-quality entertainment devices for personal computers, including joysticks, PC GamePads, MouseSticks, and the new UltraSound, a 16 bit, 32 voice sound card for the IBM PC. For further information : Brad Craig, at 604-431-5020. ------------------------------ Date: 16 Jan 93 12:58:03 GMT From: bs@mda.ca (Bruce Sharpe) Message-Id: <3960@mdavcr.mda.ca> Subject: GUS Press Release: Power Chords to be bundled To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Just found this on the Gravis BBS ((604) 431-5927): January 15, 1993 Advanced Gravis FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: ADVANCED GRAVIS AND HOWLING DOG SYSTEMS SIGN LICENSING AGREEMENT Advanced Gravis Computer Technology Ltd. and Howling Dog Systems have signed an agreement whereby Howling Dog's music software will be bundled together with Advanced Gravis UltraSound(tm) multimedia PC hardware. The world-wide, non-exclusive licensing agreement extends to the end of 1993. Under the terms of the agreement, Gravis will license Power Chords for Windows and a collection of MIDI songs for inclusion in the retail versions of the Gravis UltraSound sound card. The bundle will give users the ability to easily play, edit and compose MIDI music for personal, business, or educational purposes using a familiar guitar interface and powerful drum kit. "A large percentage of our sound card customers are Windows users anxious to experiment with music composition," Grant Russell, Advanced Gravis president. "These customers are going to find our CD-quality sound and Howling Dog's revolutionary software hard to beat, especially at the price." Gravis UltraSound, released in early October 1992, is a 16-bit 44.1 kHz, 32 voice stereo sound card with support for Standard MIDI, 256K of on-board memory, and a speed-compensating game port. UltraSound features wave table synthesis for true professional quality musical instruments reproduction. It features Ad Lib(tm) and Sound Blaster(tm) compatibility and supports Windows Multimedia Extensions. The suggested retail of the UltraSound bundle is $199.95 and will began shipping in January 1993. Power Chords for Windows is a object oriented music sequencer that makes use of a playable on-screen guitar as one of its input metaphors. Users can create chord objects, strumming patters, drum parts, melody and base parts, all with the mouse. Compositions are created by dragging the various parts into position in a song framework. This interactive approach to music making shows the true power of the Windows environment. Power Chords also supports standard midi functions. Amateur musicians and hobbyists with a knowledge of music can use the software to compose, play and record original music. "We are constantly receiving reports from users of Power Chords who can't believe how quickly and easily they can create music on their computer," said Eric Bell, President of Howling Dog Systems. Howling Dog Systems is a relatively new company devoted to the production of top quality music software in the Windows environment. Advanced Gravis designs, manufacturers and markets high-quality entertainment devices for personal computers, including joysticks, PC GamePads, MouseSticks, and the new UltraSound, a 16 bit, 32 voice sound card for the IBM PC For further information: Advanced Gravis Brad Craig, at 604-431-5020 Howling Dog, Eric Bell, at 604-436-0420 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jan 93 09:42:48 CST From: levitt@vault.WUstl.EDU (Scott Levitt -- Summer HS Coop) Message-Id: <9301181542.AA01404@vault.WUstl.EDU> Subject: Has anyone got the MIDI working? I need assistance... To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Hi, I have the Soundblaster PRO midi interface, a Korg 707 digital midi keyboard with in out and thru, and Voyetra Sequencer Plus. But I can't get it to recognize the MIDI. Does the Soundblaster PRO midi kit need modifying? Also, I noticed when I tried to play a .mid file thru the midi port it sounded terrible...can anyone help with this problem? Thank you... Scott Levitt levitt@informatics.wustl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jan 93 17:30:03 EST From: dionf@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Francois Dion) Message-Id: <9301182230.AA01707@brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA> Subject: Hey! Turn it up! (but be carefull) To: Ultrasound Daily Digest > From: "Bryon Daly, ECE Dept, UMass, Amherst" > Subject: Misc. GUS problems > > First, I'm getting some sort of weird feedback sometimes. Let me explain my > setup: The gus line out goes into the AUX input on my stereo. The SPEAKER-B Oh look stimpy! Smoke coming out of the card... And oh, what's that! My power amp is melting! Happy, Happy, happy, joy, joy, joy... THREE reasons why you shouldn't do that: 1- The line in (~30Kohm) expect a 1 or 2V peak to peak signal max. Anything more than that will cause clipping and can damage the input circuit. 2- Your amp SPEAKER-B is in serie to SPEAKER-A and so your amp sees an extremely high impedance. The transfer function is far from effective and so your amp is producing most of its watts in heat, instead of audio. 3- The card is feeding back thru the stereo input stage, adding to the normal feedback, and overdriving the amp. It is possible to remove this feedback, but you'll still have problem 1 and 2. > outputs from the stereo go into the line-in on the GUS (should this be mic-in > instead?) My stereo lets me play from 2 input sources at once, so I can have > both my CD player and the sound card playing at the same time (very convenient > for certain games with sound effects but no music). It normally works fine, > but sometimes, I get all sorts of garbled output on the stereo. It only > happens if I have the stereo volume up past 5, and I have just run ultrinit. When you run ultrinit you physically connect thru a CMOS switch the line in to the GUS out (and also the CDROM audio in). Now, if you are sending to the GUS line in what is coming out of the GUS out thru your amp SPEAKER-B out, you get feedback. Now In your case, it only happens with the line-in enabled because by using the SPEAKER-B out, you feed a low ampere/high voltage signal, which is not amplified a lot by the LM317 (but is still damaging) and so it is stopped by the CMOS switch. In my case my mixer has a maximum transfer of power because i'm using a 2V line out to the GUS, and if the CMOS switch is open, it still leak enough to cause feedback. My solution: i have a patchbay to physically disconnect the GUS line-in when i'm not recording, and when i'm recording, i monitor thru my headphones on my mixer. So what should you do? Plug your CD player to the GUS line-in, plug the GUS line-out to the CD input on your stereo. Voila. Of course, if the computer is off, you cant listen to your CD player... The other solution is to connect your preamplified out to the GUS and you wont have to disconnect physically if you use the utility i have uploaded which is called "set". (it sets the line-in, mic-in, line-out, enabled or disabled without any text output). Can be found on archie.epas.utoronto.ca in the submit dir. > It seems as if the GUS is taking the stereo's output and passing it back in. It is. disconnect the line-in if you are sending back the signal. It can cause damage to your amplifier and speakers (and because you are using the speaker out it's also possible it is damaging the GUS LM317s). > SBOS immediately stops the problem, as does running playfile -r (no other > Also, is there anything wrong with my setup as it is, that might > be unhealthy for the card? Very definitely... Do not use the SPEAKER out. (And you say you were getting acceptable sound?????) > ------------------------------ > From: ebynum@server.cs.jhu.edu > Subject: No more static! > > Well, my thanks go out to Apollo Shau-Yang Wong. He hit the problem > right on the head in yesterday's digest. Seems I had memory clogged up with > device drivers. I booted from a clean floppy, using low memory to set up a > 4-meg ramdrive. The static's all but gone (there is still a little when I > record a DDD compact disc, but I suppose that's to be expected with 8-bit > recording). Time to look into the 16-bit daughter card? Several advices: if you have a 286, do boot with a clean system. On a 386, i'm running with qemm, stacker, smartdrive, ansi, vga-ntsc, mouse etc... and even with all that, i have no problem. In fact the samples i have recorded are better than all the 8 bit samples i have found on the net when i was recording from a CD or a recent tape (i record on Sony Metal masters on a TEAC with dolby C, HX-Pro, fine bias, dynamic bias adjust). Of course if you record from a video or an old Fe tape sans dolby, you'll get lots of noise. Another important point: if you can adjust your line out on your preamp, adjust it so that the VU meter "led" on USS8 will slightly light on heavy drums. That way, you'll get a better S/N ratio even if you introduce a little clipping (symmetrical). As for the 16 bit card: yes it's time for it. A 16 bit 22KHz signal sounds better than an 8 bit 44KHz signal from the tests i have done with my EPS-16+ for a digital file playback. For instruments, it is a little bit different. Some 8 bit stuff sound better than 16 bit stuff (mostly because they are synthetic sounds from 8 or 12 bit synths). > Second, make sure the signal's not too loud (or soft). Oftentimes > the line out from a stereo receiver has no adjustable volume control, so you > have two options: > > 1. Manufacture your own connector, using the speaker outputs. Then > you can adjust the volume manually (attribute this idea to > ko_mike@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu; he's actually implemented it). Definitely not a good idea (or at least use a 8 ohm to 10K audio transfo. they are most of the time the red ones and the green ones are 8 to 1K) > 2. Get a direct connection from the headphone output to the > microphone-in jack on the GUS. This, *in combination with* > the line signal (hint - use USS8) works well for me. I wouldn't use the MIC-in for anything serious as it has a dynamic gain controller (it flattens outrageously bass) > ------------------------------ > From: F. Wallace Peers > Subject: Oddss and Ends > > (2) WHEN TELLING THE DIGEST ABOUT THIS WONDERFUL NEW PROGRAM YOU"VE > UPLOADED TO EPAS, PLEASE SAY WHAT THE FILENAME IS! It's rather > fustrating searching through files trying to guess which one is the one > you want. (just a pet peeve of mine :-) ) Usually there is a .txt file. It is the description... Which brings to mind: people who have uploaded huge archives of midi files, please upload a .txt with the titles. We need an INDEX file for each directory on epas, so we will need that info (i wont reupload all that) Ciao, -- Francois Dion ' _ _ _ CISM (_) (_) _) FM Montreal , Canada Email: CISM@ERE.UMontreal.CA (_) / . _) 10000 Watts Telephone no: (514) 343-7511 _______________________________________________________________________________ Audio-C-DJ-Fractals-Future-Label-Multimedia-Music-Radio-Rave-Video-VR-Volvo-... ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Jan 93 23:27:22 PST From: mtichy@sfu.ca Message-Id: <9301180727.AA26527@fraser.sfu.ca> Subject: More Uploads To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Gussers are in for another treat. I'm going to upload some more 669 files to klingon.epas.utoronto.ca (128.100.160.36). Simon2 Massbach and Shadow which is the best of the batch. Also the first intro with GUS support by the incredible leaders in DEMO technology, RENAISSANCE! This one is called Daretro because it was coded by Daredevil with some nice 8-channel --More--(49%) music by C.C. Catch. Heh, heh, I'm not going to upload this one quite just to let you suffer a bit. For those of you who are new or are still in the dark, 669 files are 8 channel "mod-type" music files. You can play them on a SB or SB Pro with COMPOSD13.ZIP. However, I would reccomend playing them on an UltraSound with P669GU0.ARJ as they sound the best on a GUS. Snoop around the \pc\pub\ultrasound\submit or \pc\pub\ultrasound\ soundutils directories to find the stuff. Don't forget to buy Josh's Cyberstrike game when it comes out. You gotta support the GUS and help Renaissance go to next years DEMO competition, The Party for a show down with the Future Crew! Enjoy the files fellers! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jan 93 14:04 EST From: "Matthew E. Bernold" Message-Id: <9301181904.AA00225@orca.es.com> Subject: Note to Brad Craig. To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Here's a copy of a note I sent to Alan at GravisTech, and to Chris Yuzik, hoping that one of them will forward it to Brad Craig. If anyone happens to know a direct mail address for Mr. Craig, please let me know, and I'll send it directly to him. Let me know what you think...but more importantly, let GRAVIS know what you think. Beta testing is one thing, but being a beta-tester on your own time and money, and not getting copies of the new and improved package for your time and effort is NOT my idea of a good time.... :-) ---------- Mr. Craig; As a user of the Gravis Ultrasound card for nearly two months now, I was both happy and upset to read the two press release announcements about the new Ultrasound software bundles from Midisoft and Howling Dog. I have been using this card, as I said, for almost two months WITHOUT the benefit of any sort of finalized software. I've dealt with feeling like a beta tester, and not having any programs that support my soundcard. I've dealt with flaky emulators and bad windows drivers and shortsighted programmers who didn't bother to include patch caching in their programs. I've basically suffered through things with a great card and NO software support. The whole point of this letter is to find out if Gravis plans on treating it's current customers (especially the ones on internet who have been fighting for this card for almost 6 months) to a taste of REAL software, or if we are going to be left out in the cold. Will current owners of the GUS also get these software bundles, or will we have to buy them, thereby proving that we have just been beta-testing the card for all this time? I sincerely hope that Gravis doesn't turn it's collective back on the customers who risked their money buying a board that wasn't even supported yet, that had no software to speak of, and doesn't even have a real SDK available. BTW. I STILL think it's a great card, after all I've said in this note. I just don't want to have to spend another 25+ or so dollars to get software I could have had by just waiting for this "final release" package instead of buying the "BETA version" back in November. Thank you, Matthew E. Bernold The Pennsylvania State University ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1993 03:24:32 GMT From: jenqvist@klaava.Helsinki.FI (J Juhana Enqvist) Message-Id: <1993Jan16.032432.7117@klaava.Helsinki.FI> Subject: OPTi and GUS To: Ultrasound Daily Digest In article <1993Jan15.093209.11190@netcom.com> stewarta@netcom.com (Alex Stewart) writes: >it may fail completely on another. Does anyone have any detailed information >regarding which chipsets/motherboards/speeds/manufacturers/GUSes this appears >to be afflicting? I've been thinking about upgrading sound cards, and here I >just got a nice OPTi motherboard for christmas... It seems (what I have been reading from this group) to be a problem with only some 486 motherboards. Mine is one of them. I've got two machines, both with an OPTi chipset. My GUS works with no problems in the 386/40 machine, but in my 486/33 (392/491 chips), I had to disable external cache in order to get it work decently. SBOS stuff worked great with the cache, but Playmidi and windows kept saying 'On Board Parity Error'. Disabling the external cache (256K) didn't seem to affect noticeably to the speed, so I'm quite satisfied with this now... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1993 17:30:50 -0500 From: "Frank Pikelner" Message-Id: <9301182230.AA00920@cs.yorku.ca> Subject: SC2, GUS, and noise solution To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I confirmed the solution proposed by someone on the net (sorry, I forgot the name), but using the P669 player with a sound file prior to running SC2 or MELEE fixes the noise problems reported with the 1MB upgrade. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- --- Frank Pikelner /~\ \ \ \ Technical Assistant, Department of Computer Science \- \-- York University (Toronto, Canada) '\^/; \ \ Internet: frank@cs.yorku.ca _{!}_ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 93 01:08 EST From: "Matthew E. Bernold" Message-Id: <9301190608.AA11441@orca.es.com> Subject: Simultaneous playback/record. To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I just had a strange experience with my GUS in Windows. First a bit about my setup. I've got an external amp with three inputs and two outputs. The line out on the GUS is hooked into an input on the amp, and the secondary line out on the amp is hooked into the line in on the gus. I've got a tape player on another input of the amp, so I can play on the tape player and record on the GUS. I was playing back a MIDI file in Windows, and wondered if I could record the output in a .WAV file, so I fired up the pocket recorder. (from EPAS) I started the MIDI file, and then tried to start the recorder, but I got an error that the pocket recorder couldn't open the device. Then, I tried it the other way around. I started the recorder and then started the MIDI file. This time, aside from a few seconds of silence at the beginning, it worked fine! I recorded part of the MIDI file into a .WAV file. I've still got a couple of questions though... 1) Does anyone know why I can't start recording once I've started playing a MIDI file? The input and output shouldn't have anything to do with each other. If a program uses the output, it shouldn't also tie up the input, should it? 2) Since I can record the output of the GUS, it is obviously not a hardware limitation. It must be a driver bug. (or omission) It seems to me that the driver checks the status of the output device when a program tries to use the input device. Can anyone confirm/deny this? Thanks in advance, Matthew E. Bernold MEB117@PSUVM.PSU.EDU <> meb@haydn.psu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1993 03:46:19 GMT From: mtichy@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Tichy) Message-Id: <1993Jan18.034619.1085@sfu.ca> Subject: Tons of Software for GUS! To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Somebody might want to cross post this to the games forum. I just pulled it off Gravis BBS. Titles Planned for UltraSound Support! Shipping the 1st Qtr. of 1993 Publisher Working Title Rel.Date _____________________________________________________________ 1. Electronic Arts NHL Hockey Feb-Mar Ultra Chuck Yeager Dec-Jan They have planned support for other titles, but can not release the working names of the titles as of yet. 2. Interplay Buzz Aldrins RaceintoSpace Jan. Interplay has planned support for all future titles in 1993. Interplay now handles VirginGames and they are also planning to support GUS. -More-3. Accolade Star Control 2 Shipping Already selling thousands of copies per month, the box is being sticker with labels stating that (This Product Supports UltraSound). Accolade plans support for other titles for 1993. 4. MicroProse World Circuit Shipping David Leadbetter's Golf Jan-Feb Harrier Jan-Feb These titles will have either a patch to support the GUS or will have re-vision with UltraSound support. 5. Ibis EarPlay Jan RiffTutor Feb Well know for their Music programs. They plan support for all up-coming titles. 6. S.S.I (EA AFL) Great Naval Battles Shipping -More- This program supports GUS through an SBOS patch. They are also planning a re-vision in Jan. They plan support for the Gravis UltraSound board as well as the PC Game Pad. S.S.I. is well known for their Combat Simulations and D&D Software. 7. Three Sixty (EA AFL) Battle Cruiser 3-D Feb Three sixty is well know for their air, combat, and war simulations games. They plan support for GUS with several other titles in 1993. 8. Epic Games Drum Blaster Jan This shareware is planning support in all their new titles Track Blaster, Zone 66, Solar Winds, Savage Crusade, Armada 2525, Screen Tracker, and several other titles. 9. ID Software Bio Hazard Feb-Mar Major Stiker Famous for Wolfstein 3-D. They are planning support for all new titles in 1993. -More- 10. Apogee Software Pickle Wars Feb-Mar Big things are planned for GUS support this year, including new educational titles. 11. Psygnosis Lemmings 2 Feb Well known for their arcade style games, Lemmings and Oh' no More Lemming's. They plan support for Gravis UltraSound in several of their tiles in 1993. 12. Mystic Software Music Works Shipping Mystic Software is planning to bring out several other music titles that will take advantage of boards rich sounds. 13. Odessey Software Space Wars Jan They are coming up with a Wing Commader type game with GUS support. Received great press in Computer Gaming World Nov. edition. -More- 14. New World Computing Empire Deluxe Feb New World is an AFL of Broderbund Software. They have planned support in all their future releases. 15. Hollyware Johhny Quest Feb Famous cartoon adventure of the sixties, has several titles planned for Gus support in 1993. 16. Win Jammer Software. Win Jammer Jan One of the finest Music Shareware companies. Wind Jammer is producing a new commerical Midi Sequencer with Gus support. 17. Kesmai Corporation Air Combat Warrior Feb On-Line gaming system has big plans for supporting the Gravis Ultrasound. -More-18. The Blue Ribbon SoundWorks Ltd. Feb-Mar Super JAM This well known Music has been producing music titles for everal years now. They are also working on othe MPC tiles.and have had several features in Keyboard Magazine. 19. Norsehelm Products Inc. Ragnarok II Mar Seven Wonders Arcade adventures game producers. Looking forward to supporting GUS. 20. VOR Technologies, Inc. Empires of the Known Universe Mar On-Line gaming system. They are working on adding support of GUS to take advantage of the digital audio. 21. Intel Corporation 960 Family Features Demo's Feb. They are planning to use GUS in several of their Multi-Media -More- projects. 22. IntraCorp Inc. Terminator 2 Chess Feb Trump Castle 3 Mar One of the top game producers, they have produced such hits as Hme Alone 2, Bridge Master and Dark Half. 23. MidiSoft Recording Session Jan Midisoft will support GUS in all the future titles. 24. NovaLogic Comanche Maxium Overkill Shipping AFL of EA. Produced the number 1 selling fall title. NovaLogic produced a SBOS for their title. The Sound Balster version only plays mono. The GUS rocks in stereo, with much clearer sound effects. 25. Bt Software Enterprises Xanthus Feb PC Composer Mar -More- Bt has produced 3 selling titles to date. Will support GUS in all future titles. 26. Mercer Comp Systems Midi Performer Feb Music Software Company plans on support of GUS with several new titles in 1993. Also look out for Josh's CYBERSTRIKE. It's like smash TV with some wicked Graphics and awsome music. 4-channel music for SB owners and more for GUSers. Later. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jan 93 10:20:29 GMT From: M.D.Hennessy@cen.exeter.ac.uk Message-Id: <18283.9301181020@olib> Subject: Ultrasound Daily Digest V2 #15 To: Ultrasound Daily Digest Can anyone explain why the 669 player just leaves a 'Clearing memory...' message and hangs on my computer ? (Tried the same files on a friend's and they worked.) Mark.H. ------------------------------ Date: 17 Jan 1993 10:16:02 GMT From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong) Message-Id: <1jbbl2INNh9s@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> Subject: Ultrasound FTP Sites News (+ OS/2) To: Ultrasound Daily Digest GRAVIS ULTRASOUND FTP SITES NEWS ========================================================================== Ftp Site: archive.epas.utornto.ca Directory: pub/pc/ultrasound wuarchive.wustl.edu systems/msdos/ultrasound -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi all. I just finished validating the latest batch of submissions in the submit directory (in archive.epas.utoronto.ca). Thanks for all the contributions! Special thanks to the programmers of the GUS native mode softwares!! All the files have been scanned for virsues and all seems to work fine. They have been placed in their approproiate directories with one additional note. There is now a new directory for all the Windows programs ...../ultrasound/soundutil/windows. A couple of notes from me as far as the new files go.... - More 669 files! These are great! A number are more complicated and more impressive than the last batch. All GUS owners must try 669 files. They are awesome. How well do they work with the base card (256k)? I have 1 Meg and they work fine. But just in case someone asks, do theywork ok on the 256k cards as well? Anyone out there still have a 256K card? - GUSMOD (official release, 1.1, not beta!) works great! I can hear my MODs in stereo now (wow and the others have alwasys gave me mono on my GUS only). Thanks Renassiance group! - The New WinJammer works wonderfully with the GUS now that it loads patches tself. No more needing Patch Manager! And of cousre you can now have a list of midi files playing in the background automatically under Windows. Pretty neat stuff. I haven't played with the mid*.arj and mmjbox much yet. Can't remember if they load the patches themselves too.... OK, here is the OS/2 part I was talking about... For all you OS/2 owners out there, even though I've always had OS/2 crash on me with a trap, even with Gravis' playfile and playmidi, gusmod works! Under OS/2 in a DOS windows. No crashes. So what Ihave been doing now is playing a list of my MOD files in a DOS Window in the background (using a batch file. Need a gusmodjukebox . :) ) while do ing my work in other windows. Works great! All I need now is a ftp site with a whole bunch of MOD files I can download with great songs. :) Now I realize all you Windows people will come out now and say... we've always been able to do this. ANd now with Winjammer patch loading (gus compatible), we can do it in the background too. A whole list of songs with better program interface et al. Well, no arguments from me here except all the things OS/2 can do that Windows can't like multi DOS windows all working at once. Really neat how I can download a file, play songs, and be reading my QWK from my local BBS all at the same time. :) But anyways, we can now (or at least I can) do this in DOS, Windows, and OS/2 using the Ultrasound. The Ultrasound is getting better everyday! Now if only playmidi and 669 player can work under OS/2 as well.... Actually I have a question here. Wasn't the 669 player for the GUS written by Tran of Ren? Same fellow who just wrote this gusmod which does work under OS/2? It'd be wonderful if someone can forward a message to him asking him if he can get the 669 player to work too now that gusmod works. Especially since the 669 files really shows off the Ultrasound more than mods, hence sounds better and would make better background music. :) Thanks. Well, that's all the blabbling from me for now. Thanks for all the uploads! I only mentioned some above. But thanks to ALL uploaders! Keep'em coming. :) Thomas. P.S. People keep asking me why I don't have a .sig..... well, my problem is I'm involved with so many things here on Internet that my sig will be a screenful and I'll get flamed for having too big a sig and wasting bandwith. :( ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jan 93 14:36:28 EST From: snowdog@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (Rodney CHANG) Message-Id: <9301181936.AA20254@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca> To: Ultrasound Daily Digest I have a problem w/ setup. When I run setup to let it configure the ports for me, I get a EMM386 error right after I configure the base address. After many different configurations that still didn't work, I decided to set the ultrasnd variable manually. The manual explains the ultrasnd variable, but I didn't find anything about the the ultradir variable. Can anyone tell me what I should put in my ultradir variable? Thanks in advance. ------------------------------ Date: (null) From: (null) To: Ultrasound Daily Digest YRRAAHHHHHH!!!!!! >Also included to all GUS owners a new SBOS that does not use any >options, and the program Patch Manager and a new set of Window's >driver's. We will also include a coupon for ULTRA CHUCK YEAGER for $15.00. YA YA YA YA YA YA!!!! >Well, does it sound cool or what ? :) I can face exams a happy man.... --- .sig's are neat, | Andrew McCallum .sig's are fun, \ andrewm@zooid.guild.org .sig's tell where to flame someone. |andrewm@terranet.cts.com SUPRESS THE POOR, SAVE THE RICH, KILL THE STRANGE ------------------------------ End of Ultrasound Daily Digest V2 #16 ******************************