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From: victor.ng@rose.com (victor ng)
Subject: OPTi chipset
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 21:26:26 GMT
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Date Entered: 12-12-92 16:19
I have a 486-33 Exclusive! motherboard with an OPTi chipset.  I'm going
to order a GUS and I need to know if there are going to be problems.
The numbers on the chips are :
        82C493/82C392/82C206

Thanks is advance.
BTW, why do the OPTi chipsets have problems anyway?

Vic
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From: ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran)
Subject: Re: GUS & Falcon 3.0
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:53:59 GMT

In article <1g8j53INNt7@male.EBay.Sun.COM> briant@ebba8.EBay.Sun.COM writes:
>Just got my GUS, managed to run Starcon2 - sounds great ! went to run Falcon3,
>but I don't have enough low memory.
>
>With SBOS taking apporx 17k of low mem, eemem386 (or whatever) and the bit of
>DOS that remains low, how do you get enough memory to run this beast!!
>

You have to load SBOS high.  To do this, make a batch file with the 
following commands:

@echo off
lh sbosdrv
loadsbos %1 %2 %3 %4

Name the file sboshi.bat and place it in your ultrasnd directory.  Run
it each time you want SBOS to load high.

BTW, I've heard that the old version of SBOS will not work properly with
Falcon 3.0 when loaded high, so this solution may solve one problem and
introduce another.  Look for SBOS 1.22 if this turns out to be the case.

Phat.
From: joak@ocf.berkeley.edu (Jonathan A. Kung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Ordered a GUS, what do I do?
Date: 16 Dec 1992 07:54:51 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
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Okay, I done gone and dunnit.  I called up Disk-Count and placed
an order for a GUS.  2-day shipping to get it to my house by the
end of this week.  Cost: $129+7 US.  I checked my chips for the
OPTi label before ordering, and thankfully, they were absent.

Now what do I do?

I've been reading the newsletter and this group (albeit not too
closely, I hadn't really believed I would be getting a GUS before
Christmas, but there it is...), and gathered some stuff, but could
anyone with tips, recommendations, advice, etc please reply?  I'd
like to get the card set up and running in as little time as possible.

I'm wondering mostly about:
1.  What kind of RAM specifically should I get.
2.  What kind of software (mod-players, music-makers, patches, songs,
    etc.) I should download.
3.  I'd like to be able to keep playing Stunts with non-internal-
    speaker sound, and I have an AdLib right now.  Can the GUS and
    my AdLib coexist in my machine?

Thanks!

-Jon Kung
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From: THOMASG@epx.cis.umn.edu (Thomas D. Gasser)
Subject: Re: GENERAL MIDI FTP SITE
Organization: Department of Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:07:24 GMT

In article <BzBFoJ.6E5@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca> ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran) writes:
>From: ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran)
>Subject: Re: GENERAL MIDI FTP SITE
>Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:33:55 GMT
>In article <724432228.AA00025@ship.wimsey.bc.ca> John.Smith@f7050.n153.z1.ship.wimsey.bc.ca (John Smith) writes:
>>Can anyone suggest an FTP site to get general MIDI files?  Trying to archie on
>>MID, or MIDI is a nightmare.  Would be nice to have more than just the sample
>>MIDI files to play on my GUS.  Thanx.
>> 
>>John
>>
>
>There are good MIDI files on archive.epas.utoronto.ca (aka klingon.epas...)
>in the /pub/pc/ultrasound/submit and ../midi directories.
>
>Phat.


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From: v062l48d@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Harold J Screven)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Gus Gripes Part II
Date: 16 Dec 92 03:54:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <9212152249.AA13840@suned1.Nswses.Navy.Mil>, jkb@suned1.Nswses.Navy.Mil (John K Bunk) writes...
>  ... <various gripes> ...
>HOWEVER, option (2) may be VERY appealing IF there was a
>program which can convert sounds from MIDI sample dump
>format or other popular sample dump formats to a GUS
>compatible format.  There are HUNDREDS of canned sample
>sounds for various samplers out there.  The question
>is can they be loaded into the GUS?  If so, how?

I realized the need for this program also and I have decided to write one
myself that would convert files created from a MIDI sample dump to a .WAV file
and vice versa.  When the program is completed I'll let interested parties
know.

P.S. If other file formats other that .WAV should be supported let me know.

Thanks
Harold Screven (v062l48d@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu)
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From: akodama@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Arthur Kodama)
Subject: SoundBlaster Pro's CD Interface
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 03:28:05 GMT

I've read some messages here that mention how slow and not-so-advanced
Creative Lab's CD-ROM for the Soundblaster Pro's proprietary interface
is.  But what I really want to know is this: Would Creative Lab, if
they chose to in the future, be able to make a new drive with all the
kewl gnu features and capabilities and make it compatible with the
Soundblaster Pro's current proprietary interface?  Or is there some
inherent problem with the SB PRO's CD interface, such as maybe a slow
transfer rate, that would make the current CD interface impossible to
make a newer better drive for?

akodama@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
.

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From: wiggins@lightning.cs.odu.edu (Samuel E Wiggins)
Subject: PAS-16 + TBPRO = locked up?
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:21:17 GMT

Sorry, for this repost, but no one seems to have answered my previous one.
I got a *new* error with my PAS-16 the other day while playing .MOD's with
Trakblaster Pro.  Right in the middle of playing something, the program
stopped and gave me this screen in big, ugly 40-column mode:
	ON BOARD PARITY ERROR
	ADDR(HEX) = (5000:B2C2)
	SYSTEM HALTED
Does anyone have a clue as to what this is all about?
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From: moser@ks.id.ethz.ch (Stefan Moser)
Subject: Re: ALERT GUS vs SB-16+Wave module,
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 11:12:22 GMT

In article <dedmunds.724201120@sfu.ca>, dedmunds@selkirk.sfu.ca (Darran Edmundson) writes:
|> biggles@biggles.nsc.com (biggles) writes:
|> 
|> >I think everybody should hold on a second before they buy their next 
|> >soundcard. (Un)Creative Labs has just released their next generation
|> >SoundBlaster (SB-16 I believe -- I just saw a demo of it at CompUSA)
|> >The new 16-bit 44KHz sampling board lists at $349 and the *Add-On*
|> >Em-u chip WaveBoard is $249. Thats $598 to get te same sounds as a GUS.
|> >It does come with some nicer software tho'
|> 
|> Oh why did I rush out and spend $165 CA when I could have waited and
|> spent $598 US?  Just wait for the new software from Gravis that should
|> be out in the next little while.

Hold it, hold it. While I haven't heard the GUS yet I can't really compare the
two soundcards. But I know about CD-Players. There`s CD-Players for about
100$, right? And there's CD-Players for more than 1000$, right? And both
play CD's, right? Yet do they sound the same? NO, of course not!! (given 
that amps, speakers, cables and the CD match up with the player).

What I wanna say is that you shouldn't compare the price on the respective feature list alone. I recently saw frequency charts for both the PAS and
Turtle Beach Multisound. Now they both have 16 bit sampling. Only the TBM
is about three times as expensive as the PAS. And they sound the same because
they both record in 16 bit? Hah! You'd be surprised.

I will wait and then listen to both cards in a quiet moment and then decide
it the SB-16 is worth the money.

Stefan
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From: x54@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Markus Schill)
Subject: Undocumented Jumpers on SB 2.0
Organization: University of Heidelberg (Germany)
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 15:31:44 GMT


Does anybody know what the undocumented jumpers on SB2.0 are good
for.
I am trying to conect a CD ROM directly ( not leaving the computer's
case ) to the SoundBlaster 2.0 Soundboard and if possible direct the
CD ROM's audio-output to the speakers that are conected to the Soundboard.
I realized jumper 10 and 11, close to the jacks on the rear
of the board, and found no documentation in the manual. Can anybody
help ????
thanks,
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From: rcbear@athena.mit.edu (Rupert C. Young)
Subject: Pricing of Soundboards (SB16 and Multisound)
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 05:13:39 GMT

Just so you know the new wholesale on the Multisound is much lower.
Ingram, the largest wholesale distributer in the US sells them for under $500.
The large chains were close to the old wholesale price but have not caught
up yet.  I think the large chains just want to make a little profit while 
they can.  

The price of the new SB16, when it is available should be under
$250 from people like CompUSA going by their normal markup over wholesale.
The current wholesale is only about $35 more than the current SBpro or PAS16
price.
From: cyberman@exucom.com (Stephen R. Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: When will multichannel get equal time?
Date: 17 Dec 92 03:41:05 GMT
Organization: ExuCom MultiMedia Inc.
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Christopher Lane (NETOPRBL@ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu) wrote:
: Anyone got a rational answer? Any company reps out there wanna make me feel
: less forgotten?

	the reason why micro channel based cards are more expensive is
because MICRO channel is EXPENSIVE to build cards for.  Another legit
reason is MARKET share the Micro channel market is small compared to
the ISA market.  Something to think about.  

	Perhaps VESA will be a nice way to go? :)

Cyberman
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From: scoh@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Ulowell Dead?
Date: 11 Dec 92 23:17:57 -0400
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Hello.. I just called the Ulowell Site for the Xwing demo.. And 
I used to log in all the time with "anonymous" or "new" and now it says
Access denied for "anonymous" wjhat happened?

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From: markus@clement.info.umoncton.ca (MARC PAULIN)
Subject: Re: Sbos!=SBPRO
Organization: Universite de Moncton
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:23:02 GMT

In article <92351.232619MEB117@psuvm.psu.edu> Matthew E. Bernold <MEB117@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:26:19 EST
>From: Matthew E. Bernold <MEB117@psuvm.psu.edu>
>Subject: Re: Sbos!=SBPRO

>In article <1992Dec16.185301.7654@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
>cwatters@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Coyt D Watters) says:
>>
>>In article <1992Dec16.164820.538@mfltd.co.uk> sts@mfltd.co.uk writes:
>>>In article <If=oh_u00WBL81hJgV@andrew.cmu.edu>, Philip Andrew Nemec
>><blackdiamond+@CMU.EDU> writes:
>>>|> Okay - here are some specs from the developer's toolkit...
>>>|>
>>>|> * 8 or 16 bit playback.  Stereo and Monophonic.
>>>|> * 8 it recording.  Stereo and Monophonic.
>>>|> * Playback and recording rates up to 441.1 kHz.
>>>                                        ^^^^^^^^^
>>>                                  Wow!! All we need now is a couple
>>>                                  of gigs of memory to store the samples in !
>>
>>Err.  Not really.  441.1 kHz = 44.11 MHz.  Little power of 10 thing there.
>>
>Bzzzttt.  Sorry, but thanks for playing.

>Time for a little review on prefixes....

>1 MHz = 1000 kHz = 1000000 Hz

>Therefore, 441.1 kHz = 0.4411 MHz, not 44.11 MHz...
>Three little powers of 10 there... :-)

Owww!!!  More memory?!?!  Faster Hard Drive?!?!  Owwww!!!
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From: lu-chien-ping@cs.yale.edu (Chien-Ping Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: SB16 OS2/MMPM compatible->what does it mean?
Date: 18 Dec 1992 15:58:47 -0500
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
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In the most recent issue of PC mag, there is an ad for SB16 which includes
a comparsion chart for PAS, MS Sound system, and of course SB16. Concerning
compatibility, it claims that SB16 is compatible with OS2/MMPM, while the
other two not. What does it mean? I thought any souncard can be made 
compatible with OS2 as long as the specific driver for OS2 is available.
SInce I have heard that Media Vision is working on PAS driver for OS2 (or
they have released it).
Maybe the ad simply intended says, "yes, the SB16 driver for OS2/MMPM is 
avaviable now!"?

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From: wolfi@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Schwanke)
Subject: Re: Sb Pro out in the dumps
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 14:20:44 GMT

scoh@ac.dal.ca writes:

>Geeze the SB Pro isnt even true stereo.,..
 
??? Two 8 bit DACs and ADCs aren't 16 bit 44 kHz, true.

But it IS as much stereo as you can get.

Many CD-players only have one DAC, and are still not labelled mono :)

Greetings

Wolfgang

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From: cwatters@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Coyt D Watters)
Subject: Re: Sbos!=SBPRO
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:56:55 GMT

In article <bjornhk.122.724616844@dhhalden.no> bjornhk@dhhalden.no (BJORN HAAVARD KLEVEN) writes:
[me writes]
>>Since this is a wavetable card, how hard would it be to make samples of 
>>all the allophones (phenomes, whatever) which make up language and put them
>>together to do synthetic speech?
>>
[snip]
>>I want more flexibility than simple playback of digitized speech, but I 
>>want to approach the quality of it.
>
>The problem which speech-synthesising, see, is the text-to-sound conversion. 
>Sampling the phonemes simply isn't enough. Just think about the words
>
>thanks. thanks? thanks! thanks... thanks!?! 
>
>By using the 4 phonemes this word needs (I won't attempt to transcribe them 
>here..:-), all the five words would sound exactly the same, although they 
>have different stress. But that's only a small problem - the punctuation 
>tells us what we need to know. The tough(er) part comes when it comes to 
>different pronounciation of the same letter, or of the same sets of letter, 
>even.  Consider: 'laugh' and 'ghost' the 'gh' part is spelled the same way, 
>but it doesn't sound at all the same when it's spoken. Now, these problems 
>were just a couple that came to mind (the SB talker included with the SB has 
>actually solved both), there are a lot more, and not an expert. It is 
>possible, but it'll take a lot of work.

Hmmm.  Must be the text-speech software.  My Currah's software handles
Ghost and Laugh pretty well.  It also featured a "dictionary" which allowed
for customized pronounciation.  Macintalk was a LOT worse than the 
Currah Cart on my C64.  The Currah's software also did pretty good with
punctuation, although averything else would be spoken in a monotone.

It did, however pronounce ghoti as G o (long o) tee.  

Of course, if SBtalker solves it.....(big grin).  Will SBtalker work with 
SBOS?

-Coyt
From: swkgohw@nuscc.nus.sg (Sir Launcelot Du Lac)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: SB16 Released at Last!
Date: 17 Dec 92 02:31:52 GMT
Organization: National University of Singapore
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Well met Phat,

ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran) writes:
: 
: That's like asking if your 1Meg of video memory will clash with main memory.
: The GUS' RAM is totally separate from main memory. 
: 
: Sorry, Sir Launcelot, but this line of reasoning does not make sense.  RAM is
: better than ROM, and does not introduce any drawbacks (except maybe price)
: whatsoever.  I'd rather have RAM to store any sounds and instruments I want
: than be limited to preset ROM patches.  ROM isn't all bad, but if I can't have
: both ROM and RAM, then I'd choose just RAM instead.
: 
Aye, I know that now, thanks to the Blue Beetle who enlightened me on this
issue at lunch yesterday :):)

Well, it looks to me like the issue now is really whether the Wave Blaster
and MIDI Blaster wilt be using RAM or ROM, or a combination of both. 
Let's hope so, so that when I contemplate which option to get to give me
General MIDI capability, 'twould be a straight fight between GUS, Wave
Blaster, MIDI Blaster, and Roland SCC-1.  Since I already have the SB16,
I'll only look at the General MIDI capabilities for all the options.

I think I'll also go ask Origin when the time comes, after all, they were
the ones who advised me to go with SB16, though in all fairness, that was
at the beginning on the year when the GUS was not out. :)

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From: pmw@ocf.berkeley.edu (Po-min Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: voc2wav - problems?
Date: 16 Dec 1992 08:27:39 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
Distribution: usa
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Has anyone actually gotten the program voc2wav to work?  Whenever I tried to
use the program on a .voc file, it would convert, but the output .wav file
did not look any different in size, plus when played it only gave the first
few seconds of the .voc file.  Answer/advice appreciated.

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From: isc10192@nusunix1.nus.sg (KOH KHANG WEE)
Subject: I tot SB16 was out !\
Organization: National University of Singapore
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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 01:42:45 GMT


Gee... just went to a local exhibition, here in the home of Creative
technology.... to think the SB16 is out all over the world and Creative
insists that all stocks are in the US and etc. and they dun have any for
sale in Singapore.... YET. ! Geee...... talk about neglecting roots.
Anyway.... saw this interesting new sound card by WEARNES..... it is a
 8 bit sound card which is marketed in direct competition with the
SBpro2. BUT.... it offers upgrade from daughtercards... to 16 bit
sampling and playback.... MPU-401 compatible interface..... gee and all
this for more then S$20 (US$1 = S$1.6) less then a pro2. One thing
though.... this card is presently realsed only in Asia.... those
overseas wun get it till next year....
i took a listen to it and it seems quite impressive.... the sounds are
not as noisy as my present Sbpro.... and the digitised speech from a WC
demo seemed so much nicer then at home (mind u i connect my sbpro to a
Hifi amp with BOSE AM-5 speakers.....and still dun get SOLID digitised
speech).... but.... i dun know anything else about it.... the phamplet
give out was rather brief.... Anyone out there seen this and care to
comment ?

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From: tarjan@iastate.edu (RC Cola)
Subject: Re: SB16 Released at Last!
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 04:01:38 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.025427.21639@nuscc.nus.sg> isc10192@nusunix1.nus.sg (KOH KHANG WEE) writes:
>Sir Launcelot Du Lac (swkgohw@nuscc.nus.sg) wrote:
>: 
>: Hail People!
>: 
>: At long last, the Sound Blaster 16 ASP hast been released in it's home
>: country, Singapore!  Cost is S$498 (about US$300-350).  But now, I'm a
>
>	Gee...great (sic !) at this price.... i just can't afford it ! I
>don't know why the price is so high, now i am thinking only about the
>PAS 16, maybe it could be a better card, at a better price... moreever
>it is supposed to be MPU-401 compatible (soon ?) Anyone care to commend
>? Also, one Creative spokesman told me the card was for high end users,
>if so, why din they improve on the SBpro2, which has loads of problems
>with my 486 ? Why hasn't Creative done anything to solve it ? And come
>out with an affordable stereo sound card ? Creative is getting on my
>nerves. It is abandoning it's roots....singapore based customers. BTW.
>has anyone heard of the new Wearne's 16 bit sound card ? It is
>definately cheaper then the sb16 but offers 16 bit sampling too... at
>only s$278.....     
>
>: little uncertain as to what to do, for the MIDI Blaster is touted for
>: release early next year.  This wilt allow playback of General MIDI format
>: sound, so 'twould be nearly as good as the Roland SCC-1.  The Wave Blaster
>: daughterboard for SB16 will also allow this.  The question now is: should
>: I get the SB16, then the Wave Blaster? or wait for the MIDI Blaster and
>: connect that to my current SB Pro? or get SB16 and then the MIDI Blaster?
>: Any advice anyone?  Also, dost anyone have a more specific date as to when
>: the MIDI Blaster wilt be released?
>:
>
>	i guess it all has to do with whether u play games more or do
>sequencing more..... if u do the later i suggest waiting for the MIDI
>blaster.... or better still get a Roland SCC-1 or a Tutle beach
>Multisound ! Gee... i wish i had the money..... any loansharks out ther
>

Well YOU DO! Lets see.. you want General MIDI.. Check.. 16 bit playback.. Check
32 mono Channels.. check, 16 stereo .. check, SCSI, well its an option.. 
wavetable.. check (about a 150-200 dollar OPTION on the sb16)

And it does SB emulation to boot... What is the name of this nice peice that 
does everything you want? ITS THE GUS!!!!

I have one.. I love it..
BUY ONE!!

129 from Disk-Count!

Cya


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