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From: hsiaoe@aix.rpi.edu (Eric Hsiao)
Subject: Re: Microsoft soundcard?!?!
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 22:23:52 GMT

In article <715110757.F00005@cloud.pub.uu.oz.au> hamish@cloud.pub.uu.oz.au (Hamish Moffatt) writes:
>In a msg on <Aug 11 15:58>, Mike Chapman (mike@ftp.com ) writes:
>
> MC> Microsoft is coming out with their OWN sound card.  All they 
> MC> said basically was CD- quality sound and Multi-media for Win 
>
>Doesn't =every= new soundcard maker claim "CD-quality" sound?
>
>
>Hamish
Yes, but only the Pro AudioSpectrum 16 & the Gravis do so far (assuming we're
talking about the DAC). The Gravis needs a daughtercard for a 16-bit ADC, but
from posts here, people say that it will have a 16-bit DAC.


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From: ptran@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran)
Subject: Re: Gravis address ???
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 12:05:50 GMT

In article <92238.123616ERGUL@TRMETU.BITNET> <ERGUL@TRMETU.BITNET> writes:
>I need the address of Gravis (who is releasing UltraSound) urgently.
>Can anybody provide it?
>
>Thanks
>Ayhan Ergul   ergul@trmetu.bitnet

This is the address in the manual of another product of theirs (Gravis
Gamepad):

Advanced Gravis Computer Technology Limited
111-7400 MacPherson Ave.
Burnaby, B.C.
CANADA V5J 5B6

Phat.
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From: u895027@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Mark Mackey)
Subject: Thunderboard and 486-33
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 02:02:08 GMT

There's been much debate on the net about the problems the poor little SB has 
coping with the 486-33. Since I've just upgraded the old 286 I need to buy a 
new soundcard for the new computer, and I need to know which ones will work
with the 486. The SBPro seems to be OK from what I've heard (with a few bugs :)
but is rather pricey. One card I've seen round at a very reasonable price is
the ThunderBoard (fully Sb compatible, or so they say...). Does this card 
work on a 486-33? Is it truly SB compatible? Any and all help on these pressing
problems appreciated.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: rmyers@ics.uci.edu (Richard E. Myers)
Subject: programming SB/SB PRO
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Summary: where to get some free stuff
Keywords: SBDOS10
Reply-To: rmyers@ics.uci.edu (Richard E. Myers)
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 02:57:14 GMT

I did a little archie search and came up with the following anonymous
ftp site for the free development package SBDOS10:

  cobalt.cco.caltech.edu : /pub/heathh/sb

You can also find a few other libraries and general programming info
that should be helpful.

Best Wishes,

  -- Richard

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From: mark@pacifier.rain.com (Mark Jacobson)
Subject: Ultrasound- Has it been released like they said?
Organization: Pacifier Online Data Service (Public Access Unix/bbs)
Distribution: all
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 00:56:21 GMT

I just wanted to know if anyone knows whether Ultra Sound
has actully released their board yet?  I was told by my 
Employer that they were to be released on the 20th and others
in this area said the 17th now are they actually gonna be here
next week or are they shifting the release date yet AGAIN! or
are they just on a big back order?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: smintz@sedona.intel.com (Stephen Mintz exp 11/92~)
Subject: Re: Creative Labs SB 16
Originator: smintz@alamo
Organization: Intel Corporation
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 20:50:03 GMT


In article <Bu0FDy.4tE@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, dem21178@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dan Montroy) writes:
> smintz@sedona.intel.com (Stephen Mintz exp 11/92~) writes:
> 
> >Looks like the sb 16 release date has been moved up, it now has a release date
> >for the end of this month!!
> >Stephen
> 
> I'm curious...does anyone know if Creative Labs will  offer an upgrade program
> for those of us who currently have SB Pros?  And will the CD-ROM for the SB
> Pro work with the SB 16?
> 
> Dan
> -- 
> Dan Montroy
> University of Illinois
> d-montroy@uiuc.edu
The Answer is yes to both, there will be an upgrade policy though I don't know
the details yet, and yes your old CD ROM will work with the Pani CD rom unit!!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Amiga Vs PC sound (idiom or truth?)
From: nunn@nutmeg.ntu.edu.au (JsNO  BAR---NUNN)
Date: 4 Sep 92 16:16:44 +0900
Distribution: world
Organization: Information Technology, Northern Territory University
Keywords: Unknown


  A mate of mine tells me that even though Amiga's only have 4 channels
and AdLib & SB have 11 channels; Amiga's are better because each channel
can have an finite number of voices. I have always had the common belief
that voices and channels are the same in concept. Is my friend correct?.



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From: jpl1@Ra.MsState.Edu (John Patrick Lestrade)
Subject: Is it here yet?
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 01:09:28 GMT

I think you all know what I mean.  Well, is it?
(I have been away from netland for a short while)
Patrick

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From: tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Big delay from Gravis
Date: 28 Aug 92 00:39:48 GMT
Organization: clearer than blir

In article <1992Aug27.030100.4328@midway.uchicago.edu> nbw1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>Just heard today from reliable sources...that Gravis
>has pushed the release date of the Gravis Ultrasound to
>...
>NOVEMBER 8th.

I've been following this Gravis thing for quite some time. (You too?)
You can split the people interested into several camps:

1. I own an XXX soundcard, I'm happy with it and could care less.
2. I'm tired of waiting I'm gonna buy an XXX soundcard.
3. I'm sold on the Gravis Ultrasound and I don't care how long
   it takes to come out, it's the best technology available.
4. Available? Hey guy, get a clue, it's VAPOR, VAPOR, VAPOR!
   Get a life.

But the interesting thing is that for all the people waiting there
seem to be too many who plan on getting the thing as soon as possible.
Personally, when I see that the date has been pushed back again, I
mentally add another two months *after that* that's it's gonna take to
get a consensus opinion on how good it is and decide whether *I* want
one. If November 8 is true I won't even be making a decision until
next year. If the company is having these kind of problems getting it
on the market, do you really want to take the chance? I mean, the
thing might not work as advertised. And with all the back orders they
may be pushing production so much that the things won't be reliable.

File this post under the Caveat Emptor variety. And let's just hope
I *don't* get the chance to say: "I told you so."

-- Tad Perry   Internet:    tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: smintz@sedona.intel.com (Stephen Mintz exp 11/92~)
Subject: Re: PLEASE HELP: SB 1.0 gibberish!
Originator: smintz@alamo
Organization: Intel Corporation
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 20:17:43 GMT


I don't think it is speed of the Bus sound more like a DMA conflict, are you
sure, you don't have something set to DMA 1?
From: bill@solaria (Bill Neisius)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: unreal?
Date: 3 Sep 92 16:33:21 GMT
Reply-To: bill@solaria.hac.com
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Bruno Grossniklaus (grossnik@iam.unibe.ch) wrote:
: Hi there 
: 
: I just wanted to run unreal (386DX DRDOS 6.0 QEMM).
: mem reports 634KB free memory but unreal does
: not run. It says there are still 9920 Bytes needed.
: (634 - 600 = - 9 ???).
: 
: So what am i doing wrong?

I had exactly the same problem; for some reason UNREAL will not
work with DRDOS 6.0.  The only way around it is to reboot with
MSDOS 5...
From: harrison@lclark.edu (Mark Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Ultrasound shipping!
Date: 2 Sep 92 17:24:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: lclark.1992Sep2.172453.13830
Organization: Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR

In article <1992Sep2.145344.23852@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> quan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Tony Quan) writes:
>
>The US office of Gravis says that the Ultrasound began shipping
>on August 31.  Now let's see whose first to get one...
>
>--Tony
>quan@cs.stanford.edu

Now where can I get one?  I tried CompuUSA and they told me it wasn't
comming out until Oct 8 and wouldn't take my order.  I know EA has them,
but I have lost their number.  Also does anyone have a list of the games
that you can get from EA (The ones from the flier?)  Any other places?

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From: boutell@cshl.org (Tom Boutell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard,rec.music.marketplace
Subject: WANTED: Midi Card (MPU401 Compatible)
Date: 27 Aug 92 13:04:10 GMT
Organization: Cold Spring Harbor Labs

I'm looking to pick up a basic, working, MPU401 or MT32 - compatible MIDI card 
for my IBM compatible. I've got a Yamaha PSS480 just itching to be hooked up 
to my CPU, so I don't need something with its own sound - generation 
capabilities.

Anyone out there got a MIDI card they're interested in cutting loose?
Please respond by email. This is a serious inquiry.

-- 
Tom Boutell, boutell@cshl.org

Clausthaler is the best non - alcoholic beer in the known universe.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: ap@jyu.fi (Patric Aalto)
Subject: Re: .MOD editors, MIDI converters
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 06:29:11 GMT

In article <Tk57PB2w165w@eternal.chi.il.us> jgostin@eternal.chi.il.us (Jeff Gostin) writes:
> 
>     2. In lieu of a MIDI-style editor for .MODs, is there a MIDI->.MOD
>          converter? Again, it's my understanding that this is not
>          available, but it's worth asking. I do comprehend the fact that
>          MIDI formats are inherently different from MOD formats, so no
>          flames on this, please. :-)

I made such a beast for my personal use a few months ago. It sort of works,
but I then lost interest to develop it further. The main problem is to fit
all the important info of a MIDI file into only four channels of MOD. The
converter needs to use a lot of heuristics to do this properly. I got really
nice results from a few simple MIDI files, I could upload these somewhere
if someone is interested. Then again, I got really poor results when I
tried to convert some of my own compositions.

Another problem is to find the correct samples (and sampled at a correct
pitch) to use. I sampled all the intruments the original MIDI files used
from my LAPC (which I used to have at that time) and created a new sample
file format that included information about the sample note.

I might start working on the program again sometimes, you never know...

Patrick Aalto
ap@tukki.jyu.fi
From: marrevola@iris-dcp.es
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Waveedit stupid?
Date: 27 Aug 92 15:58:30 +0100
Organization: REDIRIS, Red Nacional de I+D

Does anybody know where to find a wave (or voc9 recorder for windows?
Waveedit is so stupid that allways takes MIC as input (even if record in
stereo.

manolo@taf.fundesco.es
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Cakewalk for Windows.
From: davidw@ida.dsir.govt.nz (David White)
Date: 30 Aug 92 21:26:10 GMT
Organization: DSIR/IDA Auckland, New Zealand

In <1992Aug28.135255.20414@bnrmtl.bnr.ca> barsz@bmtlh168.BNR.CA (Peter Barszczewski) writes:

>In article <92241.084640MEB117@psuvm.psu.edu> you write:
>|> I've seen lots of posts recommending Cakewalk for Windows, and Cakewalk Pro,
>|> for writing MIDI music.  What I'd like to know is where can I get my hands
>|> on this program?  Is it commercial software, or Shareware, or PD? 

>It is commercial software.  It *used* to be a good cheap sequencer (like Turbo
>Pascal used to cost under $50), but now it is fairly pricey.  For the cheapest
>price look to your favourite mail order house, or discount music store.

There is a demo available on cica:
  \pub\pc\win3\demo\cwdemo.zip
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From: witek@b8.b8.ingr.com (Vic Witek)
Subject: Re: FM Synth - SB Pro Vs. PAS16
Summary: [D[D[D[D[D[D[DWindows not needed!!
Organization: Intergraph
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:10:05 GMT

In article <amigo.715208009@milton>, amigo@milton.u.washington.edu (The Friend) writes:
> 
> 	The major factor I'd consider a Pro Audio Spectrum 16 over a
> Soundblaster PRO is that it is a _much_ quieter card - no bus noise,
> line hum, etc. The 16 bit stuff is the nice extra more-less, especially when
>  the cost now is close to a SBPRO. The software included with the PAS16 is 
> excellent, except for the DOS recorder - which is a pain. Developers will
> no doubt be supporting the PAS16 through a conversion driver so you can use
> 8-bit samples through the 16 bit stereo channels... a simple process. In
> the meantime you have the SB-compatible card already there - and can
> play 16 bit stereo at the same time. 
> 
> 	As to the volume control - its neat to have a mixer that controls
> all sound on your PC - even the PC speaker sound is routed through the PAS
> output with volume control. Course you have to boot Windows 3.1 to use it, but
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Why not just enter PAS * at the command prompt.  Viola!!! Mixer and Volume
Controls at you fingertips!! 
 
> most of the software included is for windows anyhow. The mod player uses
> the 16-bit stereo out, converting from 8-bit - the sound is a bit cleaner too.
> But still the sample noise is from the original sampler.
> 
> 	The PAS16 is _the card_ I'd buy today, but I bought a SBPRO a few
> months before it was released so I'm happy at the moment. The UltraSound will
> be the best overall card to buy _when it becomes available_. Creative Labs
> best be entering the 16-bit sound market soon or else make all thier cards
> considerably cheaper...
> 
> 						--> Mike


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From: ftw33616@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (.)
Subject: SoundBlaster Manual
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 00:51:35 GMT

I was given a soundblaster pro as a gift While I was working In Taiwan, and I
didn't even think about the fact that the Manual wasn't in english until I
opened it.

I was wondering, is there any policy concerning exhanging manuals?  I there
any chance that If I return the original manual, that they will send me an
english one?


			- Frank Wang
			  ftw33616@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: mchen@groucho.cs.psu.edu (Michael Chen)
Subject: Re: Ultrasound Answers from Gravis
	<1992Aug19.051035.4989@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
	<1992Aug26.231120.28380@tc.cornell.edu>
	<BtMK1L.AD7@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:07:40 GMT

   Well, since it uses wavetable (sample playback) synthesis, I think that 256K
on the Ultrasound will probably be used to hold the samples themselves, not the
silly little .MOD files (when was the last time you saw MODs with all of the
sample data for their songs?) to be more efficient.  And in that case, at 16-bit
the serious musician will definitely want more than 256K, which is roughly four
seconds of mono at 44.1 kHz.
   Not to trash the card; I think it's a great idea.  But realize that cards
like the SCC-1, which is the Sound Canvas rack-mount sample-playback module on
a card, use four megabytes of ROM sample data.  256K is squat.
   But if it takes $33 1 meg SIMMs, then that's okay...

--- Mike
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From: gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington)
Subject: Re: UNREAL.ZIP (Was Re: Assembly'92 Demos)
Organization: Contract to CSC, Victoria Uni, Wellington, New Zealand
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 01:23:46 GMT
	<1992Aug28.091105.24616@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
	<1992Aug28.132426.9482@eecs.nwu.edu>

wsmr-simtel20.army.mil is mirrored in several sites:
	wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/msdos/
and	oak.oakland.edu:

to name two.  It is recommended that you use a mirror, rather than the
original.

Cheers;

nat
(gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz -- Nathan Torkington -- is the electronic text and
 MS-DOS archivist for the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
From: cpirazzi@bonk.esd.sgi.com (Chris Pirazzi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Anyone used PAS-16 SCSI for disk?
Summary: yup
Date: 25 Aug 92 18:40:54 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA

>>>--Can I use the PAS-16 to control other SCSI devices?
>>>Yes.  Trantor Systems [authors of TSLCDR.SYS]
>>>can be reached at 510-770-1400 for a $59.00 
>>>driver set which supports all SCSI hard drives, removable hard drives 
>>>and magneto-optical drives.  Currently there is no driver support for 
>>>tape drives or scanners.
>
>>does anyone have experience with using this package ?
>
>>sounds too good to be true ...
>

well I decided to go for it, and it works.  

So far, using a Seagate 94191-766 640 Meg SCSI disk with the Trantor 
drivers I just got, I have had no problems accessing the drive from
lots of different programs including Windows.

All I need now is OS/2 support for the card and the driver ...

	- Chris Pirazzi
From: dwong@terapin.com (Don Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: TrakBlaster and QEMM
Date: 28 Aug 92 18:24:16 GMT
Organization: BBS

Has anybody gotten
TrakBlaster to work with QEMM?  It always locks up when I run it with QEMM and
it's too annoying to reboot with another config just to hear some MODs.  The
TrakBlaster Pro that came with my brother's PAS-16 has no problems with QEMM,
so I was wondering if there's some way to fix this.

Please reply by mail if possible.  Thanx.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: lemieux@eecg.toronto.edu (Guy Gerard Lemieux)
Subject: Re: Ultrasound Answers from Gravis
Date: 27 Aug 92 01:46:52 GMT

orb@alchemy.tn.cornell.edu (Randolph Turner) writes:

> And they still may even with a Gravis card.  You see, if the Gravis board
>doesn't have a good chunk of buffer space and hardware support for
>automatically feeding all those DACs from that buffer, the PC would still be

The Gravis card is reputed to hold 256k to 1MB of memory.

That should be pretty good for MODs.

Guy
From: m91mfr@tdb.uu.se (Mikael Fredriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: .xmi file format
Date: 31 Aug 92 09:57:06 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Scientific Computing, Uppsala Univ., Sweden

Hi, in the game Ultima Underworld there are some midi-files called 
.xmi. Does anyone know if it is possible to play / edit these files and
which program I need to do it. Or... Is it possible to convert them to
'ordinary' .mid files?

I don't have a soundblaster / soundcard myself so I am posting this for
a friend of mine.

Thanks de Micke


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From: bonney@esds.mdc.com (Greg Bonney)
Subject: off-brand sound card problems
Keywords: thunder card, boom board, CompUSA, sound blaster
Organization: Visual Simulation Systems
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 17:05:39 GMT

A few months ago, I bought a Boom Board from CompUSA.  (Reportedly, this
board is identical to the Thunder Board.)  The first problem I had was in
Windows.  The Boom Board didn't come with Windows drivers, so I tried to
use the Sound Blaster drivers that came with Win3.1.  Windows warned me
that I should get the Thunder Board driver, but the SB 1.5 driver seemed
to work okay.  Unfortunately, though, when I ran wolf3d from Windows, the
digitized sounds didn't work.  I assumed this was a Windows problem, not
a problem with the board, and decided not to worry about it.  Well, last
week I bought Falcon 3.0, and the digitized sounds didn't work (with or
without EMS, BTW).  The people at Spectrum Holobyte said the Thunder Board
was SB 1.0 compatible, and they (SH) only support 1.5 and up.  This didn't
make sense to me, since the Windows SB 1.0 driver wouldn't work with my
Boom Board.  Anyway, to make a long story short, I returned the Boom Board
to CompUSA (I still had my receipts and all the packing), and spent the
extra $20 to get a genuine Sound Blaster (1.5).  Now wolf3d works under
Windows, Falcon 3.0 works great, and IMHO the genuine Sound Blaster
actually sounds a little better (or, at least, different).  I've also found
that the Sound Blaster comes with some fun bundled software (which is
probably worth the extra $20 by itself).  BTW, the people at CompUSA
didn't give me any hassles (if they had, they would have lost a customer).
And in all fairness, the Boom Board makes no promise of being SB1.5
compatible.  It just says it's SB compatible, which is true.
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