Apparently-To: john.smith@gravis.com Ultrasound Daily Digest Thu, 30 Sep 93 0:07 MDT Volume 6: Issue 29 Today's Topics: 669 files CDin Plus Line in Convince me Dune with Megaem. Getting Ultrasound on display Great Idea for Ultramid. Looking for a player program that will handle .au MT patches New game with GUS support. NHL Hockey and the Ultrasound NHLPA Hockey NT and NeXT Problem with WinModPro ver. .04b Readership update Sierra Drivers: Incredible!!!! Sierra Games - no sound at all [GUS-Dig. V6 #27] Star Control 2 wierd sounds subscribe Ultrasound daily digest v Ultrasound Daily Digest V6 #27 (2 msgs) Where is it? 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, 28 Sep 1993 22:43:39 -0500 (CDT) From: v345@rex.uokhsc.edu (Anthony C. Toppins) Subject: 669 files Message-ID: <9309290343.AA10027@rex.re.uokhsc.edu> This is my first posting. Could someone please explain 669 files and tell me if there is a windows 669 player available. I currently use p669. Thanks in advance. - Tony Toppins University of Oklahoma College O' Medicine ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 12:16:52 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew See Subject: CDin Plus Line in Message-ID: <199309300216.AA03413@arthur.st.nepean.uws.edu.au> I have finally got a cable to attach my Texel CDrom to the 4 pin connector on the GUS. However, I am also using the line-in on the GUS for my SB compatible card. Question: Is there a reason that I shouldn't be doing this? Will I blow up my GUS :-) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 93 11:01:11 ADT From: Damon Brodie Subject: Convince me Message-ID: Lately I've ben seriously considering a sound card. I've decided one one of either the Ultrasound or the PAS-16. Currently I'm leaning towards the Ultrasound, but I need to be pushed a little more. Question: Does the Ultrasound work with some of my favorite games: Flight Sim 4/5 Syndicate Falcon 3 F-117 Question 2: Will the optional daughter board make the playback of Audio-CDs sound better than the PAS? Does this board take an additional slot on my PC? Question 3: If a game has native GUS support, does it then sound better than the competion? If so what specifically sounds better? Is the sound more dynamic? more instruments? Thanks for any input. Damon Brodie. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 17:53:01 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew See Subject: Dune with Megaem. Message-ID: <199309280753.AA18739@arthur.st.nepean.uws.edu.au> I am playing the CD version of DUNE with Megaem, and a couple of the MIDI sequences don't quite sound right. Anyone got any ideas? Incidentally, the game is better than T7G. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 93 13:36:23 EDT From: ROYCE LIAO Subject: Getting Ultrasound on display Message-ID: <9309281736.AA25094@boyne.math.lsa.umich.edu> I don't think even a loud campaign will bring Ultrasound into stores. I mean, most people want Soundblaster compatibility. Most computer users don't want to fool around with setting switches or loading TSRs. Why do you think a lot of tech-support calls to computer companies are about "stupid" things like forgetting to load the mouse driver, or losing the autoexec.bat file? Since most of us are relatively familiar with the operations of an IBM (MS-DOS), changing IRQs/DMAs, config.sys, etc. might be routine for us. But I've never seen a computer store demonstrate games on a Roland sound- card. So sound quality usually doesn't factor into advertising a game product. Even with 7th Guest...Egghead stuck it on 486-33 Gateway with SB-16ASP (no waveblaster) People owwed-and-awwed at the screen...not really noticing the sound quality (or lack of it.) Just wondering, are all those horror stories about high return rates (GUS) actually true? Were most of the GUSes sold by mail-order catalogs and the niital EA $99 promotional offer? This would imply that GUS is primarily being purchased by customers already aware of the GUS's capabilities ( 32-voice wave-table) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 17:51:15 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew See Subject: Great Idea for Ultramid. Message-ID: <199309280751.AA18715@arthur.st.nepean.uws.edu.au> I can't think why someone hasn't thought of this before... When sierra etc, wish to support the GUS thru Ultramid, why don't they include a small text file called say MIDI.DAT, that is simply a list of the GM patches used by that game. Ultramid can then load the full versions of all these patches, onto the GUS, and away you go. They would have to settle on a standard format for the DAT file. But gee, wouldn't it make things easier? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 93 08:12 EDT From: CHEDBERG@hamp.hampshire.edu Subject: Looking for a player program that will handle .au Message-ID: I am trying to find a program that can play (or decode) files with the extension .au attached to them. I am running an IBM PC with Windows, PC Speaker using sound drivers. I _might_ have an Ultrasound soon, but I don't know. Let me know about _anything_ that will work on the PC. Thanks muchly. -Chris Hedberg ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 00:22:32 -0500 (CDT) From: Phil Johnson Subject: MT patches Message-ID: do for me... are they only usuable in windows...? Can someone please fill me in? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | pjohnso2@ub.d.umn.edu Univ. of Minnesota - Duluth | "Lawnmower Man's in | ----------------------------------------------------- your head now, | | Jake." | | -- Jeff Fahey in | | Stephen King's THE | | LAWNMOWER MAN | |_____________________| ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 17:38:39 -0300 (ADT) From: Gravis Ultrasound Lover Subject: New game with GUS support. Message-ID: It's official. Darksun from SSI has Gravis Ultrasound support. I got it today and installed it. It sounds damn good too. The game still uses ULTRAMID which is included with it, but it handles it by itself. I mean, it loads it and removes it without the help of the player. So you don't see it. You don't have to worry about memory problems. I saw Darksun from Gravis' list and it came out with GUS support. Now, I'm waiting for Return To Zork and Dracula. Marc Y. Paulin /-----------------------------------------------------------------\ | Fidonet: 1:255/200 Internet: markus@info.umoncton.ca | | Talk: markus@clement.info.umoncton.ca | \--------------+------------------------------+-------------------/ | Gravis Ultrasound forever!!! | +------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 93 12:47:15 EDT From: SLAUGHTC@WMAVM7.VNET.IBM.COM Subject: NHL Hockey and the Ultrasound Message-ID: <9309281648.AA00940@orca.es.com> I recently purchased the game NHL Hockey from Electronic Arts. On the box, it states that it supports the Soundblaster. No problem, I thought. To make a long story short, with SBOS 2.0B10, I only get music, but no sound effects. With older versions of SBOS (2.04 and 2.08) I get the sounds and digitized voice, but it becomes very drawn out, and unrecognizable, and thus screws up the rest of the game. Does anyone have any idea as to what I could try to get this to work? I was also unable to get it to run under a full-screen OS/2 2.1 session. Has anyone gotten this to work? Any help is appreciated. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 12:29:02 -0400 (EDT) From: "Bonjour, Le Prof" Subject: NHLPA Hockey Message-ID: <01H3IR330NHY9VUUQP@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> Has anybody got this game to work with any of the GUS drivers? The box doesn't say what card it supports, but sings incessant praise about a plethora of audio snippets. So does it work with MegaEm, AIL, or SBOS?? /Jeff **************************************************************************** * VietNam vets are not Fonda Jane. Skydive- It's good for your heart. * * Racecar spelled backwards is racecar. If it's a BMW, she's worth it. * * Bonjour, Le Prof. I never met Napolean, but I plan to find the time. * * If you ask a woman if she likes Steely Dan and says "You mean the band?" * * marry her at once. I'd be Grateful if they WERE Dead. Avoid see-through * * beer. 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Can anyone help? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 10:13:22 -0300 (ADT) From: Gravis Ultrasound Lover Subject: Re: Readership update Message-ID: On Mon, 27 Sep 1993, Dave DeBry wrote: > I've heard rumors of the digests reaching BBSs via > FidoNet and various other UUCP-type leaps. I subscribed many friends to the digest by giving their Fidonet address as the return address. So, they're not rumors anymore. :) Marc Y. Paulin /-----------------------------------------------------------------\ | Fidonet: 1:255/200 Internet: markus@info.umoncton.ca | | Talk: markus@clement.info.umoncton.ca | \--------------+------------------------------+-------------------/ | Gravis Ultrasound forever!!! | +------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 08:28:53 -0500 From: John Patrick Lestrade Subject: Sierra Drivers: Incredible!!!! Message-ID: <199309281328.AB14718@Isis.MsState.Edu> Well, just a few comments on the sierra drivers for the gus. I finally got them to work with space quest 5. I am at a loss for words to describe the difference between this and my old sbos method! I literally could not believe my ears (and I have cheap speakers!). Someone recently complained about needing to use ULTRAMID. I load it in high memory with qemm and it's no problem. One question I have is whether or not I should be hearing speech in the game. I thought I was getting all of the sounds when I was using sbos, but I noticed last night with the new sierra gus driver that there are other sounds that I was missing (e.g., exiting the fighter trainer when Roger gets caught pretending to be a pilot, there are more mechanical sounds of hte door opening. It's great!) But now I wonder if there are not some other sounds, including spoken words, that I am not hearing at all. If you have a gus and a sierra game, get the drivers now. and call or write sierra and thank them. -- John Patrick Lestrade cnesta::lestrade or SSL::lestrade lestrade@ra.msstate.edu Gueaux Saints Gueaux! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 23:26:00 -0400 From: "Alexander Majarek, Sascha, SAM" Subject: Re: Sierra Games - no sound at all [GUS-Dig. V6 #27] Message-ID: <17E3C51646@subz-nov.uibk.ac.at> Try to unload SBOS, Megaem, etc. (whatever is for emulation on your GUS) and load the supplied (with the Sierra-Drivers) Ultramid-driver by typing: lh ultramid -c -m100 Hope this helps, SAM ********************************************************************* *Alexander.Majarek@uibk.ac.at * There are 3 ways (fast, sweet, sure)* *Perthalerg. 1c/11 * for a man to ruin himself: * *A-6020 Innsbruck * 1. Gamblin' (fast), * *AUSTRIA (EUROPE) * 2. Women (sweet) & * *Tel.: 0043-512-84-26-15 * 3. Computers (sure) * ********************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 93 21:12:56 PDT From: mikebat@netcom.com (Mike Batchelor) Subject: Star Control 2 wierd sounds Message-ID: <9309290412.AA04832@netcom5.netcom.com> Playing Star Control 2 with either native GUS, or SBOS, a lot of the sounds are really screwed up. Playing melee in GUS mode gives a really raucus metal screeching noise when moving on the menu. That goes away with SBOS, but other parts of the main game sound out of tune, or sometimes even backwards, like the sound data was signed wrong, maybe? It's hard to describe, but has anyone else heard this, or know of a fix? It happens with a stripped clean system, himem.sys and dos=high, and nothing else but the mouse. -- Mike Batchelor | mikebat@netcom.com | This space for rent mikebat@qdeck.com | ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 93 00:36:57 EST From: adrianr@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (adriano ennio raiola) Subject: subscribe Message-ID: <9309281436.13851@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU> subscribe ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 93 11:25:43 From: john.smith@gravis.com Subject: Ultrasound daily digest v Message-ID: <9309281125.A5979wk@gravis.com> >Internet sites. I've heard rumors of the digests reaching BBSs via >FidoNet and various other UUCP-type leaps. > And, of course, the infamous Message Board at Gravis, where the >digest is printed out everyday and hung up to dry. :) FYI - the digests (regular and SDK) are zipped up here every day with a little program I wrote to peek at incoming mail, and then they are sent out to every Gravis node around the world and also sent out over the SOUND BOARD CONNECTION NETWORK, which has some 1000 BBS systems around the world. So it gets out there --- ~ QMPro 1.50 05-8925 ~ All rising to a great place is by a winding stair. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 08:44:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Phat H Tran Subject: Re: Ultrasound Daily Digest V6 #27 Message-ID: > Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 02:18:05 -0400 (EDT) > From: tommylee@io.org (Tommy Lee) > Subject: help... > Message-ID: > > I just bought my Ultrasound on Friday (yes, after reading the digest for a > couple of weeks, I caved in to the hype!), after playing around with it for a > few days, I now have a few questions... > > First of all, can I register Mega-Em? Or will I soon be able to get a > fully functional copy of it from Gravis in the NEAR future (I'm talking a week > or two, MAX). > Jayeson has asked people to hold off registering until negotiations with Gravis are completed. I don't know how long they will take. However, if you want to use a version of Mega-Em without the 20 min time limit _now_, download version 0.9B. It doesn't sound as good as 1.00, though. > Second, I notice that when using Mega-em, some of the sounds seem to be > slightly screwed up. What patches should I pick up, and what should I replace > to fix this? Keep in mind, that I'm entirely new to this Gravis thing, so I > don't know how to changes patches yet either... > Get GUNS.ZIP from Epas, unzip it, copy pistol2.pat into the /ultrasnd/midi directory, and edit patch 127 of ultrasnd.ini to be pistol2 instead of ringwhsl. That should get many GM sound effects to play properly. > Finally, when I ran the SETGUS program, the program informed me that when > testing DMA for SBOS and for the Ultrasound, that they were busy (huh?), and > that testing failed. However, everything seems to run just fine!?! Is this > just a bug in SETGUS, or am I in for a nasty surprise in the near future? > Not sure. If everything seems to run fine, they should continue to do so. > Oh, and one more thing. I noticed when trying X-Wing with Mega-Em that > sometimes (especially when a lot of instruments are being played), I can hear > a slight clicking or static-like noise. What the heck is this, and can I get > rid of it? > Sounds like you're experiencing clipping. Turn down Mega-Em's volume (its default is 127, which is a little loud). Note that turning down your amp won't get rid of the clipping as it is occurring in the digital stage. > Date: Mon, 27 Sep 93 9:38:04 CDT > From: Fitzgerald Jr Steele > Subject: Sierra > Message-ID: <199309271438.JAA24284.48837@icaen.uiowa.edu> > > Since we've all been talking about Sierra lately, I was wondering...Is > there any way to contact Sierra Online through the Net? I know their BBS Try sierras@aol.com > Date: Mon, 27 Sep 93 09:29:13 -0400 > From: gkmaier@crl.mobil.com (Greg K. Maier) > Subject: Sierra Drivers - no sound at all > Message-ID: <9309271329.AA26542@crlux1.crl.mobil.com> > > I am playing "Quest For Glory 1: So You Want to be a Hero" and can't get any > sound using Ultramid and the Sierra drivers. I can choose "Gravis Ultrasound" > in the install program and select it for both audio and music effects, but > when then game plays, there is nothing but silence. I have played with it > for a few hours and can't get any sound. > Is this the VGA one or the original version? I think the compatibility list lists only the VGA version of Quest for Glory 1 (if even that). Not all Sierra games work with the new GUS drivers. Phat. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 20:01:17 -0400 From: Alan Campo Subject: Re: Ultrasound Daily Digest V6 #27 Message-ID: <199309290001.AA05722@tigger.jvnc.net> ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 13:25:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "George A. Montemayor" Subject: Where is it? Message-ID: Where is my GUS Digest for September 29,1993? I didn't get it today! -GEORGE ------------------------------ End of Ultrasound Daily Digest V6 #29 ************************************* To post to tomorrow's digest: To (un)subscribe or get help: To contact a human (last resort): FTP sites: archive.epas.utoronto.ca pub/pc/ultrasound wuarchive.wustl.edu systems/msdos/ultrasound archive.orst.edu pub/packages/gravis FTP mail server: mail-server@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de Hints: - Get the FAQ from the FTP sites or the request server. - Mail to for info about other GUS related mailing lists (UNIX, OS/2, GUS-MIDI, etc.)