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From: dcole@ua.d.umn.edu (david cole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: PAS16/SBPro compatibility ???
Date: 24 Dec 92 04:51:40 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth
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In article <1992Dec24.005206.19993@news.columbia.edu> mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:
>In article <1100@dgaust.dg.oz> brown@dgaust.dg.oz (Fred Brown) writes:
>>
>>I'm having a PAS16/NEC Cd rom kit installed inmy system today, does anyone
>>know what "current" game programs are incompatible with the PAS16 ? My old
>>soundcard is a SBPro 2, can you run 2 cards from one system ie: Ultima
>>Underworld wont work with the PAS16 so I can run the program from the SBPro
>>instead (connecting the speakers to the card) ? Is this possible ? Current
>>programs I have on my HDD are: MM3, MM4 Clouds of Xeen, Treasures of the
>>Savage Frontier, Ultima 7 & Forge of Virtue, Buck Rodgers - Countdown,
>>Abondoned Places, Ishar, Prophecy of the Shadow, Dragonstrike & 
>>Spelljammer
>>Thanks
>>Fred
>
>Ultima Underworld works great for me with the PAS16!
>It even runs under OS/2 with full speech and sound!
>
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>* * * * * * == Meir I. Green == AmateurPkt N2JPG@W2XO.PA.USA.NOAM

Mediavision INCLUDES a copy of Ultima Underworld in both their FusionCD 16
multimedia package (based on Sony 31 drive and PAS 16 card) and the FusionCD
package (NEC 25 drive and PAS+ card).  You don't say what kit you are
getting, but it is pretty clear there should be no incompatibility between
the PAS 16 and UU).
Note, I haven't tried it yet myself, although I have the Fusion CD kit.  I
have tried Wing Comm II (included on the same cd-rom) and I got it to boot
and got sound, but it hangs sometimes and is very slow during the opening on
my 386sx.  Combat is ok.   The included Carmen San Diego World cdrom makes
better use of the cdrom, but also hangs part way into the game.  Just tried
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective II, and was worried because it specifies
a faster access cd-rom drive, but it worked fine.  Lots of digitized video.
There must be something very inefficient about Origin coding because the
speech sequences in WCII are much simper than the one's in Sherlock Holmes,
but they run much slower....  In any case, getting sound out of the PAS from
these games is no problem.  I also run them with Roland sound on, and feed
the Roland into the mixer on the PAS+, so I get Roland music and PAS
digitised sound...

Cheers,

Dave
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From: ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran)
Subject: Re: 669 files
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 10:58:43 GMT

In article <1992Dec31.043438.23336@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> ko_mike@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Michael Y Ko) writes:
>
>How do these 669 files compare to the midi files that are on the GUS disks
>and those available by ftp on epas?
>

The 669 files are quite noisy, due to poor sampling technique and to the
fact that the samples are only 8-bit.  However, the samples were created
with "built-in" reverb, so they sound a bit fuller than the crystal-clear
MIDI patches.  In addition, the 669 files sound exactly like they are
supposed to (minus a few effects).  With MIDI files, so many of them
were arranged for cards other than the GUS that you have to edit a lot
of them before they will sound right on the GUS.

>Also, how do the midi files compare to the mod files and rol files?

MIDI files played on FM cards such as the SB line sound downright corny.
ROL files as well.  MOD files sound realistic, but they are noisy.

MIDI files played *properly* on the GUS sound FANTASTIC.  Instead of
getting tin whistles like you do with the SB, you get REAL sampled
instruments.  One drawback of MIDIs, as Dan Nicholson has pointed out,
is that they don't provide as much control over the sounds as a format
such as MOD does.  What I'm looking forward to is the "super-MOD" that
takes advantage of the hardware on the GUS.  Player 669 for the GUS
is nice, but it's only 8-bit and 8 voices.

Phat.
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From: mpni@jyu.fi (Nieminen Mika Petteri)
Subject: Problems with PAS-16
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 11:59:37 GMT


Hello!

Friend of mine just bought Proaudio Spectrum-16 card (PAS-16). But we have
some, not so minor, problems.

While we're doing something in DOS, PAS-16 plays itself some FM-sounds through
speakers. I quess sounds are those internal FM-sounds included in PAS.
Also it "plays" sometimes just crisp and crasps very loud. 
Sometimes it doesn't play digized samples at all, or if does, very tinny
(pas volume settings help for this). 

Biggest mystery are those "automatically" played FM-sounds in DOS, without
running any music program. 

Computer setup: ADC 486dx-33Mhz
		ISA-bus
		Multi-I/O card (1 paraller, 2 serial and game port)
		
		and display driver. Floppy and hard-disk drivers are integrated
		into multi-I/O card.

We have changed irq and dma settings for soundblaster and PAS, but it didn't
help. We also disabled COM-2 from I/O card, but same results.

We also changed bus-speed from SETUP, disabled internal cache, but didn't help.

I also tested it in my machine (386sx-16Mhz), where it worked just OK.

So, if anybody is experience this problem before, we'd be very happy to have
any help.

Thanks
Mika


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From: htm@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Hal McMillan)
Subject: Re: pas 16 drivers
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 03:26:33 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Hewlett-Packard NARC Atlanta

I downloaded some updated drivers (TOOLS.ZIP) from Compuserve and they
included a file called FIXWAVE.EXE. What does this program do?

Also, SFX does some weird things. Among these this weekend was the
following wonderful message:

Fatal Error evm0010: xmm error: error=A0, function=09

It just seems very buggy to me. Are there any updated versions?

Hal
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From: kludge@hardy.u.washington.edu (Kludge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Soundcards for Music Composition (FAQ?)
Date: 31 Dec 1992 18:47:09 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <C04sCw.B9z@news.cso.uiuc.edu> whitehur@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Alan Whitehurst) writes:
>
>I have a 386 computer with a SoundBlaster installed, and recently
>acquired a MIDI keyboard.  I would like to use the MIDI keyboard and
>the computer to compose music.  I am thinking about buying the
>SoundBlaster Pro card, because of the builtin MIDI interface, but am
>rather new to this, and so am looking for advise.  What
>soundcard/software combination should I get to allow me to score
>reasonable music?
>
>And if this is a FAQ, could someone direct me to the FAQ archive?
>
>Thanks!
>

  If you're looking for something for MIDI in the <$200 range, I'd advise
you get a Gravis Ultrasound.  They are far better at MIDI synthesis than
the (excuse me, SB folks) pathetic FM bleeping that the SoundBlaster (Pro)
can put out.  It also has a MIDI interface built in, though it doesn't
come with a MIDI adaptor cable - that's an extra, but it shouldn't be hard
to find.  As far as software goes, WinJammer looks pretty good if you want
something that runs under Windows.  It's shareware, and you can find it
(among other places) on ftp.cica.indiana.edu in /pub/pc/win3/sounds as
winjam22.zip (that is the latest version, right?)

							Good luck!
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From: gting@fraser.sfu.ca (Gabriel Sii Kuok Ting)
Subject: Re: GUS and TB woes...
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:43:09 GMT

s106275@cc.tut.fi (Anssi Saari) writes:


>In <gting.725194139@sfu.ca> gting@fraser.sfu.ca (Gabriel Sii Kuok Ting) writes:

>>Couldn't stop myself when I managed to find a Thunderboard for CAD$50. 
>>Plunked the thing into my system with the GUS and voila... the answer to
>>most people's dreams... or is it?

>It isn't, native gus support would do that...

>>TB: 220h, IRQ 5
>>GUS: 240h, MIDI IRQ 5, GF1 IRQ 11, DMA 7.

>>Result: It WORKS! At least, a few games I tried worked perfectly fine, but 
>>there were still a few games that balked:

>Hmm, I wonder what happens when your TB and GUS midi IRQs conflict?
I think the midi irq is only used for sbos, which might have been one of the
reasons for this strange behaviour when sbos was run. But I digress. I changed
the set blaster environment to *A240* (used to be A220) I5 T1 D1 and I've
managed to get limited success - Summer Challenge now works fine, but 
Wolf3d would only recognise the TB as an adlib. (This was after running sbos,
which caused a brief comp freeze, but came back after a while, no prob.)
Still no luck with Term 2029..

[...]

>F1GP was the biggest reason I put my TB back in. It sounded horrible with
>sbos, almost as bad as GPU with TB, engine sounds like a vacuum cleaner...A

You're telling me... I had F1GP set to *pc speaker* just to get some decent
speed on the thing and the sbos sound was... just as you put it. :) Luckily
the TB works perfect with it.. Now I'm a happy camper...

>Anssi

Thanks for the advice. Maybe I'll try it out with midi irq 7 and see what 
happens...
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From: markus@clement.info.umoncton.ca (MARC PAULIN)
Subject: Re: GUS-SDK anywhere?
Organization: Universite de Moncton
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 13:03:25 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.191638.62166@cc.usu.edu> sl8nl@cc.usu.edu writes:
>From: sl8nl@cc.usu.edu
>Subject: Re: GUS-SDK anywhere?
>Date: 18 Dec 92 19:16:38 MDT

>> Is there a GUS Software Development Kit available from anonymous FTP (something
>> like the PAS-SDK for the Pro Audio Spectrum)?

>The GUS SDK is a beta and not available at this time...except to a select few. 
>I do have one and am not impressed with it yet.  It contains nothing on how to
>program the card low-level, all C calls.

>However, Tran from Renaissance and myself have compiled a list of information
>to output through the card, playback voices, etc.  We will release this Sunday. 
>On Sunday I will also release a 32-channel Amiga Protracker player.

	Which FTP site???
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From: fliss22@snybufva.cs.snybuf.edu (Gregory R. Fliss)
Subject: PAS-16 problems
Keywords: PAS-16, SoundBlaster Woes, Windows, etc.
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 20:57:00 GMT
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Hello...

   Today I became the proud owner of a PAS-16 card.  Everything SEEMS to work
great for awhile...  However, after messing with the DMA levels and IRQs, I am
getting the following results after running certain pieces of software:

*Ultima 7 (Soundblaster AND Adlib did the SAME thing)
   -Sound was tinny, and the digital samples sounded like white noise at times

*Windows 3.1
   -FM sound is VERY weak (quiet)
   -Upon exiting, any digital sound is very quiet (in DOS  i.e. PLAY CHORD.WAV)

  After doing a PAS RESET everything sounds fine again, but I shouldnt (or
should I??) have to do this upon exiting windows.


The setting for the PAS-16 is  DMA=3  IRQ=2
The setting for Soundblaster is  220h base, IRQ=5

Norton reports an LPT2 on IRQ5 however!! I have no LPT2!!!!!  (is norton just
confused and this is normal behavior or what?)

Has anyone had similar results and have found a way to remedy the situation?

Please respond by e-mail if possible!

Thanks!
Greg Fliss

fliss22@snybufva.cs.snybuf.edu



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From: dfegan@lescsse.jsc.nasa.gov (Doug Egan)
Subject: Re: CD rom and SBPRO
Organization: LESC
Date: 30 Dec 92 15:11:45 GMT

In <1992Dec28.124148.4196@vax.cns.muskingum.edu> jbuddenberg@vax.cns.muskingum.edu writes:

>Do you have to get a particular kind of cd-rom for the sbpro?


	Only if you use the digital connector...
 
	You can hook-up ANY cd-rom to the analog connector called
     CD-in <I believe> it is the 4 pin connector. The pin config.
     is in your manual. You *WILL* however need to order a connector
     from the CD-rom manufacturer... 

Doug 
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From: riedl@xerxes.cs.umn.edu (John Riedl)
Subject: GUS and Windows
Organization: /home/xerxes/faculty/riedl/.organization
Distribution: comp
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 22:23:01 GMT

Three questions about using the Gravis UltraSound in Windows:

1) If I've ever run SBOS, I have to reboot (warm is sufficient) before
running Windows, or I get terrible sound in Windows (loud crackles and
pops).  "sbos -f" doesn't seem to help.

2) WinJammer looks really neat, but I can't get it to play MIDI files
on my GUS.  Everything looks like it's working, but nothing comes out
of the speakers.

3) Playroom works with the GUS.  Kids love the sound!  (Mostly words:
all the sound effects still come out the DOS speaker.)  However, my
kids want me to set it up so they can double-click on an icon in
Windows to run it.  Worked fine for Playroom without sound support,
but I don't know how to safely start up SBOS, run Playroom, and free
SBOS in Windows.  Is there a general technique for doing this with DOS
programs that use the GUS?

Thanks for your help!
John
From: ghartzog@terapin.com (Garrett Hartzog)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: PAS-16 problems
Date: 26 Dec 92 17:58:00 PST
Organization: BBS

The problem with the volume is due to windows mixer settings. Change the mixer
settings to boost up the volumes.

Garrett Hartzog
ghartzog@terapin.com
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From: brawicz@fraser.sfu.ca (Boleslaw Andrzej Rawicz)
Subject: gus with opti 82C495
Summary: will gus work with 486/33 with opti 82C495?
Keywords: gus opti
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 04:45:53 GMT

Hello:
  Recently there has been a lot of posts about opti chipsets and
the Gravis Ultrasound. I have a 486/33Mhz with the opti 82C495
chipset, will the gus function properly with this configuration?
I also have a trident graphics card and a roland lapc1 (can it
co-exist with gus?).

thanks

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From: smintz@sedona.intel.com (Stephen Mintz exp 11/92~)
Subject: SB16-asp, getting one!!!!
Originator: smintz@sedona
Reply-To: smintz@sedona.intel.com
Organization: Intel Corporation
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:09:07 GMT


For those of you who acually want one, and don't line in New Zealand, Japan,
Singapore, or anywhere else but the good old US of A, Ingram Micro-D just took
order of 2,000 Sb-16 asps, first come first serve, so call your rep now!!!
The SB-16 in my opinion (not that is means much) is the best card out on the
market, under 300 bucks.
Stephen
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From: rlee@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Ralph Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: TURTLE BEACH MULTISOUND - ARE SAMPLES USABLE IN MUSIC??
Date: 28 Dec 1992 01:23:10 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: tartarus.uwa.edu.au

I really hope someone can answer this questions because I have an uncle
coming over from the U.S. and I really want to purchase the Multisound
but I'm not sure of this question.

I'd really to use the samples I make of instruments myself for music
together with the Emu proteus x/r synth.

Is that possible???? 

Also, is the multisound getting old???  Should I wait for the ensoniq
card....???

I want the best quality music for the lowest price at the moment and I
know that Emu systems have very good synthesizers...

thanks in advance,
Ralph
rlee@tartarus.uwa.edu.au
From: lirou@irit.irit.fr (Patrick LIROU)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: french speech with SoundBlaster card
Date: 22 Dec 92 10:54:51 GMT
Organization: IRIT-UPS, Toulouse France


I'm using SmooothTalker, a text to speech driver manufactured by First Byte,
with a SoundBlaster card.

I'm looking for a version producing french speech or an equivalent product.

Who can help?

Thanks.

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From: adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al Dhir)
Subject: GUS Memory problem
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 04:31:57 GMT

I have a GUS with 1 meg on board (70ns original + 768k of 80ns).  Every time
I run the DRAM program I end up with the last bank of 2 chips reported bad.
Everything works OK (well, almost...read on), but this concerns me.


Today I dled the new Windows drivers from the Gravis BBS along with the
new Patch Manager program (nice!).  Since the Patch Manager has a constant
display of available GUS memory, I decided to fill up GUSes memory with
patches in order to test the memory (to see if everything sounded OK with
the memory filled).  Well, it didn't.  When memory got up into the highest
bank of 256k, one or two of the Drum kit patches started sounding messed
up.  Very upsetting I must say.  I noticed that the non-drum kit sounds
always sounded OK though.  Even if I first load the Drum kit patches, and
then fill up the memory by loading a bunch of the non-drum kit patches, all
sounded OK except for one or two of the DRUMKIT patches.  It makes a wierd
staticky noise during playback of the affected patches.  Upon unloading of
the other patches, the Drumkit patches which wer previously affected sound
OK again.  It seems like the GUS is always moving the patches around in
memory every time they are loaded or unloaded.  Is this true?  If not, 
it could just be a problem with the GUS and not with my memory.

I am asking for opinions here, about what I should do.  I don't feel like
opening up my machine until its absolutely necessary (I have this HUGE tower
case neatly tucked under my desk...).  Think I definitely have a ram problem
or can someone tell me whether this happens to them also...?  Is the DRAM
program probably reliable in this case?

Thanks for any help/suggestions...

(I'll UL the new drivers and program to epas ASAP)
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From: gting@fraser.sfu.ca (Gabriel Sii Kuok Ting)
Subject: Re: GUS & Links 386
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 23:20:08 GMT

timothy.folkins@rose.com (timothy folkins) writes:


>Date Entered: 12-31-92 14:58
>I am having a problem trying to get Links 386 and the GUS to
>work together. My Links 386 version is 1.08, my SBOS version
>is 1.22 (From GUS0011.ZIP, I believe).

>Quick background
>----------------
>486-33 ISA, 8 MB RAM, 160 MB HD, DOS v5.0

>Links 386 works fine without SBOS loaded. When I load SBOS, (with 
>-o1 and -x2 options (as mentioned in the compatibility list),
>Links, and my machine experience a seizure, followed by a 
>complimentary re-boot!

Try SBOS without the -o1 option. Then load Links with golf /s and turn off
the background sounds (the irritating frog calls etc...). Works great on
mine...


>If anyone can help, I would really appreciate it. Thank you in 
>advance.

>regards,
>tef

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From: brown@dgaust.dg.oz (Fred Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: PAS16/SBPro compatibility ???
Date: 21 Dec 92 23:03:23 GMT
Organization: Data General Australia, Melbourne


I'm having a PAS16/NEC Cd rom kit installed inmy system today, does anyone
know what "current" game programs are incompatible with the PAS16 ? My old
soundcard is a SBPro 2, can you run 2 cards from one system ie: Ultima
Underworld wont work with the PAS16 so I can run the program from the SBPro
instead (connecting the speakers to the card) ? Is this possible ? Current
programs I have on my HDD are: MM3, MM4 Clouds of Xeen, Treasures of the
Savage Frontier, Ultima 7 & Forge of Virtue, Buck Rodgers - Countdown,
Abondoned Places, Ishar, Prophecy of the Shadow, Dragonstrike & 
Spelljammer
Thanks
Fred

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: Mark Kovarski <kovarski@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Compare SB-16 or PAS-16
Organization: ZOOiD BBS
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 22:20:37 GMT



I have noticed that several publications are advertising the Sound Blaster-16.
When comparing the SB-16 and the PAS-16, what are the advantages and
disadvantages when both are compared. Which one is the best buy for the $$$?

Mark K.
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From: jsalcido@nmsu.edu   (Jason Salcido)
Subject: what is the best?
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 00:12:51 GMT


I was wondering if someone could e-mail me the sound card they thought was the  
best.  Here are my needs:

(1) 16 bit sound
(2) generic interfaces so I can use it with one of the 300k CD-ROM drives
(3) price range is ~200

Can someone tell me which one is the best (soundblaster, pro audion spectrum,  
roland, etc).  Thanks for any help.

Jason
jsalcido@nmsu.edu