From gus-general-request@gaia.ucs.orst.eduMon Apr 3 16:37:31 1995 Date: Mon Apr 3 09:37:03 PDT 1995 From: GUS Server Reply to: GUS Daily Digest Subject: GUS Daily Digest V21 #3 GUS Daily Digest Mon, 3 Apr 95 9:37 PST Volume 21: Issue 3 Today's Topics: A: That ADPCM question... Gravis fax, phone, email address GUS Daily Digest V20 #31 GUS Daily Digest V21 #1 GUS Daily Digest V21 #2 (2 msgs) Hope of a better MegaEm! Newest Gravis drivers... New GUS patches & utility, I think... Trying to understand key maps, General Midi, etc. War Craft with GUS Windows VFW + Quicktime 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, 2 Apr 1995 19:56:48 -0400 From: fta@wbb.com Subject: A: That ADPCM question... To all those who were wondering about a question I asked on the Digest a while ago... While using Windows with MS-Video 1.1d, I want to sample at 44.1 KHz, Stereo, 16-bits, with ADPCM compression. I then want to play these samples back (through the VFW1.1d drivers or the like). Can this be done? After agonizing over this for months, I asked gravistech@aol.com. The answer was "no"; the GUS Max (or GUS + daughterboard) itself is capable, but the GUS Windows drivers do not directly support playback or recording of ADPCM compressed samples. Hope this helps! However, I'm sure there are alternatives. Anyone know of an unobtrusive program like WPLANY.EXE (Windows Play Any?) that supports ADPCM sample playback and/or recording under Windows? DOS? It must be as "transparent" as possible like Media Player and Playfile. Thanks! --------------------------------------- | Call me "FRED" | | - Standard Disclaimer - | Toronto, Canada | | - Applies - --------------------------------------- ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Apr 95 14:33:10 EDT From: pbleile@chat.carleton.ca (Pierre Bleile) Subject: Gravis fax, phone, email address For Nuno, all I can give you is Gravis's Tech support, but hopefully the techs can deffer you to thier sails dep: Telephone: 604-431-1807 Fax: 604-451-9358 Support hours: 9 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. PACIFIC TIME Internet: tech@gravis.com Hope this helps. -Pierre --------------------------------------------------------------------- Cyberpunks live by 4 Rules: 1. Style over substance. Pierre Bleile (1st Year Electrical Engineering) 2. Image is everything. Carleton University 3. Take it to the edge. Email address: pbleile@chat.carleton.ca 4. Break the rules. --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 8:38:24 +0100 (BST) From: "Mark.Carline BSc Elec Eng." Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V20 #31 Subject: Re: GUS under Win95 ... >When I tried to do the full install option, it would lock up during the >hardware setting test phase. I've noticed this problem *ONLY* when ULTRAINT.EXE was installed from autoexec.bat - when I deleted this line it does'nt "hang". >I decided to try the installation again this time specifying certain >option of using a manufacturers' disk. I selected the \ultrasnd\windows\ >subdirectory and it found the oemsetup.inf file. It allowed me to install >the Ultrasnd Wave & Midi driver and opened up the hardware settings >dialog for the GUSMAX. I put in the correct settings and restarted Win95. So basically a nice little tip would be to copy all the information from "\ultrasnd\windows" to a floppy as when it asks for a manufactures disk insert the disk yuou copied the files to. Is there anything else you'll need apart from that directory ? >I now have my GUS-Max working with Win95 just great. So you have'nt seen *ANY* other problems *AT ALL* ??. Does the SKIING.AVI music play ok ? Mark. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Apr 95 08:14:19 CST From: Steve Sesterhenn Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V21 #1 Hey all, >back and buying a 32 bit SoundBlaster. At least IT is supported in OS/2. ^^^^^^ I prime example of how the aweful32 misleads people. They think it's a "32-bit" sound card or something. Get real. 16bit just like the rest, with worse sound and music quality than a GUS. >I need an easy way for my kids to get to their dos-based stuff. I have a >copy of win Kids Desk that's slick (but slow), and permits dos apps to >be launched from dos so that sound works. Windows exits and the >program runs. They get windows to return to Kids Desk at the same spot >when you exit the dos program. >This works fine with sbos and the old megaem. The new megaem refuses to >run because it still detects the presence of windows. I had always >thought that Kids Desk did its work through winstart.bat or something, >but, alas, Norton Utilities show a little piece of windows still in >memory. But p-mode games work when launched this way, so megaem >should be able to work. Ok. Sounds like your "Kids Desk" program just runs a DOS window that then executes the program your kids want to run. When they are done, the DOS window is exited, leaving Windows just where they left it. You can test this by hitting ALT-TAB while one of them is running. The reason the new MegaEm doesn't work is that it is designed to run in protected run alongside other protected mode apps. It uses different trickery than the last version, and probably that is why it refuses to run: because it would probably crash windows. p-mode apps SHOULD work because Windows emulates the DPMI server, so there should be no problem. The solution is to just use the last version of MegaEm that worked, and don't use the new beta version under windows! Later, Steve ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Apr 1995 18:42:52 GMT From: Matt@machine.demon.co.uk (Matt Robinson) Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V21 #2 > Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 17:27:50 +0000 > From: Samuel Audet > Subject: MegaEm 3.03b > > > Instead of whining about how bad the beta Megaem is, why don't we get > > off our arses and beta-test the sucker? > > Because 'bout 50-60% of gussers does NOT have a GUS 3.xx or a Gus Max, > get it? You don't need a GUSMAX to use the new megaem, it runs just as well without, maybe you're thinking of MAXSBOS. As for the gus version number, maybe GRAVIS should offer a cheap upgrade and they can recycle the 2.xx or sell them off for scrap. > And I don't see any game I have where I would use MegaEm, they all have > native support. Then don't bitch to us about it, why should we care? If you don't need it, great so what? Don't use it. No worries. Hakuna Matata. Matt -- -----------------------------------------------+------------------------------\ I want to say I love her | Matt Robinson: | But how can I explain? | Matt@machine.demon.co.uk | The truth about my past? Impossible! | Lion king worshipper, X-Phile| Too many ghosts remain. | GUS user, FDC nobody, the man| | with a sig that never stays | He's holding back, he's hiding | the same for long :) | But what I can't decide, | Ask me ANYTHING Lion King | Why won't he be the king I know he is | related. | The king I see inside? | Bosa Simba! | -----------Simba & Nala-----------The Lion King-+------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 13:19:26 +0200 (MET DST) From: appel@stack.urc.tue.nl (Stanley Appel) Subject: Re: GUS Daily Digest V21 #2 > Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 17:27:50 +0000 > From: Samuel Audet > Subject: MegaEm 3.03b > > > Instead of whining about how bad the beta Megaem is, why don't we get > > off our arses and beta-test the sucker? All the people who a whining about the new mega-em must have taken the time to test it, get it. And about the size of the whining i thinkg a lot of people tried it. So all whining is good whining NOT?? Stanley > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Apr 95 17:22:10 +0200 From: Olof Sundin Subject: Hope of a better MegaEm! Greetings, everybody! All who have problems with the new PM MegaEm: there is hope! Look at this letter which I got from Jayeson the other day: >Thanks for the info. The SB emulation should work much better in the >next version of Mega-Em. > >Jayeson Sounds good, eh? Let's hope for the best! /Olof Sundin (adb3_6@und.ida.liu.se) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Apr 1995 12:24 +0100 (WET) From: Thomas.Petersson@mainz.dk Subject: Newest Gravis drivers... Hi. I wondered where i could get the newest gravis driver. I suppose its version 3.59? I went looking at archive.epas.utoronto.ca but the directory where they where supposed to be, was empty? I'd appreciate if i could be told where to find the latest version. Thanks in advance ************************************************************************ * Thomas Petersson Tlf: +(45) 38 34 77 88 * * Systemkonsulent Fax: +(45) 31 19 16 25 * * Erik Mainz Gruppen * * Dortheavej 7 * * 2400 Koebenhavn NV * * Denmark * * * * E-Mail : Thomas.Petersson@Mainz.Dk * ************************************************************************ What we hear we forget, What we see we remember, What we do we understand. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 00:09:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Loren Kling (that's me) Subject: New GUS patches & utility, I think... I was on America On Line tonight (Sunday, April 2, 1995), and I saw a program that supposedly has a lot of new GUS patches plus a utility program that makes swithing General Midi patches a lot easier. I would like to be able to get this program from an FTP site rather than downloading about two hours worth from AOL. Does anybody have it already? What file name is it under? If not, then I'll have to see how much time it will take to download.-- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | Loren Kling | * lkling@ucssun1.sdsu.edu * | SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 00:12:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Loren Kling (that's me) Subject: Trying to understand key maps, General Midi, etc. -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | Loren Kling | * lkling@ucssun1.sdsu.edu * | SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 14:35:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Guru Bob Subject: War Craft with GUS Hey folks, Get the upgrade for War Craft at wuarchive.wustl.edu /systems/ibmpc/ultrasound/games/flop115.exe. I think this one's better than the ail30 since flop115.exe has better volume balance. __ __ _____ _____ _____ _____ __ __ ,, \ '-' \ | __| | | | | | / `-' / ,, {::]|||||||||||====]| | | | | _| | |[====|||||||||||[::} '' /_.-.__/ |_____|_____|_|\__|_____| \__.-._\ `` ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 20:14:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Jake Zaagman Subject: Windows VFW + Quicktime In responce to all with Windows AVI, and Quicktime playback problems - here is my story. I have been getting alot of static, and pops using VFW (1.1a to 1.1d) and Quicktime (1.1.1 and 2.0) in windows. So much that programs that used those were unusable - the sound was to horrible. My system 486sx33, 8 megs, GUS (Revision 2.4), 250meg HD, scsi cdrom. I tried everything from moving the cards around, changing irq's, dma's, buffers, rewriting configs, Posting on the Internet and Gravis bulletin board. Alas no answer, so I struggled for the last month to figure it out. The answer lies in the Windows drivers. I went back to the 1-93 drivers in the file GUS0035.ZIP file, VFW and Quicktime worked fine. Then I tried the 5-94 drivers in the GUS0042.ZIP file, and got all the scratchs and pops again. Something happened in the rewrite of the drivers to cause the rev2.4 boards to haywire out. It turns out you can install the 1-93 drivers by copying the GRAVSULTR.386, and the 2 .DRV files into the windows system dir. If you have the 3.59 windows software installed the CONFIG icon will still call up the driver setup - just the older one. So now I run the 3.59 software and 2 year old windows drivers - BUT it works. At least it should - seems these pc's are so picky your mileage may vary. You don't know how close I was to (God Forbid!) buy a Soundblaster for windows...... Please don't hit me! Jake Zaagman jpizza@intnet.net Jake Zaagman ** jpizza@intnet.net ** Brewing and computing! ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V21 #3 ****************************** To post to tomorrow's digest: To (un)subscribe or get help: To contact a human (last resort): FTP Sites Archive Directories --------- ------------------- Main N.American Site: ftp.orst.edu pub/packages/gravis wuarchive.wustl.edu systems/ibmpc/ultrasound Main Asian Site: nctuccca.edu.tw PC/ultrasound Main European Site: src.doc.ic.ac.uk packages/ultrasound Main Australian Site: ftp.mpx.com.au /ultrasound/general /ultrasound/submit South African Site: ftp.sun.ac.za /pub/packages/ultrasound 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 ftp.st.nepean.uws.edu.au pc/ultrasound ftp.luth.se pub/msdos/ultrasound Gopher Sites Menu directory ------------ -------------- Main Site: src.doc.ic.ac.uk packages/ultrasound WWW Pages --------- Main Site: http://www.xmission.com/~grue/gus.html Main European Site: http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/ultrasound/ Main Australian Site: http://ftp.mpx.com.au/archive/ultrasound/general/ http://ftp.mpx.com.au/archive/ultrasound/submit/ http://ftp.mpx.com.au/gravis.html Mirrors: http://www.st.nepean.uws.edu.au/pub/pc/ultrasound/ GUS digest: http://gpu.srv.ualberta.ca/~itam/digest.html MailServer For Archive Access: Email to Email to New Submit Files Mailing List: Email to with content "subscribe epas-list " Hints: - Get the FAQ from the FTP sites or the request server. - Mail to for info about other GUS related mailing lists (programmers, musicians, etc.).