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From: bakken@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Bakken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Micropose Games with GUS
Date: 21 Jan 93 18:58:16 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson

In article <1jmp1qINN1qn@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> dcoleman@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Daniel M. Coleman) writes:
>In article <C16xpz.JnH@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> itd11@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Don Utley) writes:
>>Is anyone having problems with Micropose games like Silent Service ][, Gunship
>>2000, and Harrier Jump Jet with the GUS? Well, I am. Mostly with the Digitized
>>Speech. It'll talk, but REALLY slow. And I do mean REALLY sloooooowwww....
>>Any and all help appreciated!!

>>Don Utley
>>(itd11@mentor.cc.purdue.edu)

>Yes, I find Civilization and F15-III to be painfully slow.  Even on a
>486DX2-66.  Deep hurting.  I really haven't found a cure though.

I've only had my GUS or even had an MessyDoS machine for two weeks.
But I've stumbled onto a cure.  I was fortunate to read in 
StarControl II (my only game other than Silent Service II) that
the extended memory management can slow things down.  They recommended
making a clean system boot disk, i.e.

	> format /s

I created an autoexec.bat file from a few things from my normal
autoexec.bat file (I think the Gravis stuff, paths and the
like).  When I boot with this it runs fine.  Before I learned this
it ran really slow, especially digitized speach.

BTW, I can't even get digitized speech going now---it hangs
at the loading 95% part.  I probably don't have something configured
right here in my autoexec.bat file---if anyone else knows what it
might be I'd be grateful to hear.
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From: gksmith@mcl.cc.utexas.edu (Glenn Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: SB Compatibility, are they really?
Date: 26 Jan 1993 22:00:50 GMT
Organization: University of Texas Computation Center
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I'm wondering about the compatibility of the various sound boards with
the Sound Blaster.  The PAS-16 board, ?Thunder Board?, and others claim
to be Adlib and SB compatible.  I assume that means FM sound?
I'm interested in the DMA speech and other voices that the SB has.

How many of these boards uses drivers to emulate the SB?  

Are any hardware compatible?

Basically, I want to select Sound Blaster when I use software and have
it work without losing any of the capabilities of the SB card.
 

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From: jsu@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Jinn Su)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:18:18 GMT
Subject: PAS 16 & TEXEL 3024 SCSI CD-ROM Drive on HP Vectra 486/33U problem
Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
From: dwahl@teal.csn.org (David Wahl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Microsoft Sound System Card
Date: 25 Jan 93 15:57:10 GMT
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
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Anybody know what the sound card is which comes with the Microsoft
Sound System?  I've seen the capsule comments in a couple magazines
which talk about the "business" audio and some of the software, but
I haven't seen any information about the capabilities of the hardware
and how it compares with the PAS, etc.

Thanks,
Dave Wahl
Cincom Systems, Inc.
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From: steveh@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Steve Howell)
Subject: Re: Sound Galaxy NX Pro vs PAS16!!
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 05:29:57 GMT



	The sound galaxy NX is a very harsh card.. lacks a lot of depth and
dynamic head space that the PAS easily manages to produce.

The Sound galaxy is a neat cheap card, but nothing like the PAS in performance.
(I have both... and the kids will NOT leave the machine with the PAS in it..
beats me...i didnt think sound was such a big deal to them!)



My 1c worth..



Steve H


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From: marc@csi.on.ca (Marc Sherman)
Subject: GUS DMA/IRQ settings
Reply-To: msherman@zeus.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: Carp Systems International
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:59:32 GMT

How do I go about changing the IRQ and DMA settings for the GUS?  The
jumper blocks for the port addresses are easily found, but I have been
unable to locate the blocks for the IRQ and DMA.

On a similar note, if I am not using the GUS for MIDI in/out (I have a
separate Roland MPU-IPC interface), will the MIDI IRQ line be hooked?
I already have a bus mouse using the default IRQ (5) for this setting.

Thanks...
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:07:42 EST
From: Matthew E. Bernold <MEB117@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: GUS: Various patch info wanted.

In article <1993Jan22.153058.21967@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>, apollo@ee.ualberta.ca
(Apollo Wong) says:
>
>Hi,
>
>Does anybody know what can I subsitute (within the limited set of patches
>we have for the GUS) for the following?
>
On a broader note, does anyone know where I can get my hands on a list of
instruments in the General Midi spec?  I want to know what instrument SHOULD
be assigned to each patch, and then be able to substitute as I see fit.

Also, any other midi mappings such as the Roland midi synths and others
would also be appreciated.  Making .CFG files for the GUS would be SO much
easier if I knew what the different instruments were SUPPOSED to sound
like in the first place... :-)

       Matthew E. Bernold             MEB117@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
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From: hsiaoe@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Eric Hsiao)
Subject: Re: PAS-16 Developer's Kit and Turbo C/PAS-16 contest
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:49:35 GMT

I remember seeing an update of the developer's kit files (dated January) on
Mediavision's BBS.  The filenames are disk1.zip and disk2.zip -- Maybe those
will help.  I think most of the routines on the version you have are based
on Microsoft C and Microsoft Assembler.

On a side note, MV is holding a shareware contest for the best DOS or Windows
shareware program that supports the PAS-16.  The prizes look pretty good, so
if you're writing something for the card, you might want to submit it for
the contest.  The deadline I think is July 93.
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From: perk@stud.cs.uit.no (Per-Ivar Knutsen)
Subject: Re: Pascal source for a modplayer wanted!!!
Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:07:50 GMT
Reply-To: perk@stud.cs.uit.no

The right "reply-to:" for this article is : perk@stud.cs.uit.no and NOT
baardh@stud.cs.uit.no...

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From: sl859@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: JJ is gone and 386 stuff
Date: 27 Jan 93 15:23:42 MDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Utah State University

>>What can we do to improve it?
> 
> Make it work with Qemm like civilized protected mode programs do, Matlab or
> Autocad for example.

If a program works with Qemm or Emm386, then it isn't a protected mode program,
just takes advantage of it.  Why?  A true protected mode program takes complete
control of protected mode and doesn't rely on a driver like Qemm to access it
for it.

Too bad, but it's true...if we use these Expanded Memory Managers...as an
example, I had a game that was running from 60 fps and I started swapping to
and from XMS...the game slowed down to 16 fps.

Joshua Jensen
CyberStrike of Renaissance
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From: mtrachsel@sgcl1.unisg.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Photo CD's with SBPro CD-ROM
Date: 21 Jan 93 14:52:32 GMT
Organization: University of St.Gallen, Switzerland

Does anybody have already checked the
new soundblaster cd-rom driver for kodak-photo-cd's?
I have just seen the driver and I wonder if it
works. Is it true that every (also non XA drives)
can read at least the first session of a photo cd?

Thanks for your replies.

Markus
From: dionf@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Francois Dion)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Ultrasound ftp INDEX!
Date: 26 Jan 93 05:22:14 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

If you are wondering what each file is on the Gravis Ultrasound archive site
(archive.epas.utoronto.ca, mirrored to wuarchive.wustl.edu), get the
file Index.all presently in the submit directory
(/pub/pc/ultrasound/submit)

If there are corrections to be done, you can email me.

Ciao,
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From: morgan@dl5000.bc.edu (Morgan Stair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: GUS and SimLife anyone?
Date: 25 Jan 93 17:00:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: dl5000.MORGAN.93Jan25120014
Distribution: all
Organization: Institute for Space Research, Boston College


  Bad news on GUS and SimLife.

  I'm running SBOSv1.22 (I like it better than SBOSv1.23 because
speach isn't drowned out by music) and it hangs.  In fact, it seems
that if I have SBOS installed at all, SimLife won't run.

  I'm not looking for suggestions, but I'm wondering if anyone out
there has it working (if so what are your settings) or is it a problem
specifically with SimLife.

  I'm going to try SBOSv1.23 tonight, and see what gives, but I'm not
optimistic :-( Symptoms?  If I have SBOS installed and run SimLife
SoundBlaster or Adlib mode, the system hangs.  It still recognizes the
3-finger salute, but that's about it.

  Commentary: I'm having too many problems that other people aren't
mentioning... "clicks" in digitized output of Ultima 7, MM4 can't do
digitized output, and now this with SimLife...  There's gotta be
something wrong with my card or my motherboard :-(.

  Morgan
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From: mtrachsel@sgcl1.unisg.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Troubleshooting  for SBP and 486/50MHZ
Date: 27 Jan 93 15:19:19 GMT
Organization: University of St.Gallen, Switzerland

Littel help for SBPRO and 50 MHz Boards.

I was having problems like many other people also
to get my sbp working in my DX/50 AMI Bios and Opti
Chipset . Here's a small list
off things you can try to get it work a little bit
better. 

1. I had no chance with my sbpro 2 so I bought the sbpro 3.
   Maybe this is not nessecary for everybody.

2. If possible, set the at clock speed to 8.33 MHZ. That means
   ATCLK/6. Unfortunatly I have a videocard that is only working
   correctly when I set bus speed to 12.5 CLK/4. 

3. Turn on AT CYCLE Waitstate.Dont be affraid, you will not
   loose any performance. In my case the computer a little bit
   faster. Maybe because It was too fast anyway for the
   slow cards.

4. If nothing helps,, turn off the processor cache. In my case,
   this did get the sbp to work!

If anybody made different or other experiences with
sbp and fast boards please continue the list.

Markus
 



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From: stigo@ifi.uio.no (Stig Arne Olsen)
Subject: Re: Demo Group?
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 10:15:06 GMT
Originator: stigo@sognsvann.ifi.uio.no


I also think a demo-group would be great, but keep the binaries 
out. The amiga-scene has one (alt.sys.amiga.demos) and it could
be in the same style as that one (coding tips, talk about demos,
compatibility etc.).

Is there any FTP-site on this side of the atlantic (Europe) that
carries any demos? I've fetched the unreal-demo which was really
good, but the transfer rates are soooo slow from the US.

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From: reaper@tiger.WPI.EDU (Daniel M Afonso)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Keyboard and SBPro... How?
Date: 26 Jan 93 19:57:05 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
NNTP-Posting-Host: tiger.wpi.edu
In-reply-to: mtrachsel@sgcl1.unisg.ch's message of 26 Jan 93 02:54:28 GMT


	Are you sure you have:

	a) a good cable(s)
	b) The chanels set correctly
	c) The correct driver running
	d) Pray to the gods of windows
	e) make sure that the card is supposed do what you are tryig to get
		it to do. 

I've worked w/ midi many times, and I have experianced a bunch O' problems. If all the above step are checked, try to tunr your kybd on and off, and if that
don't work, call Microsoft.

	Dan
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From: awalsh@mta.ca (Andrew Walsh)
Subject: IRQ7? Was: UNREAL
Reply-To: awalsh@mta.ca
Organization: Mount Allison U, Sackville, N.B. Canada 
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:16:59 GMT

How  does one get a sound card into IRQ7 mode? Is there a parameter
or a dip switch or what? I REALLY want to get it to work.

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From: tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Photo CD's with SBPro CD-ROM
Date: 24 Jan 93 15:36:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: gpu.C1D7CE.DxK
Organization: UTCS Public Access

>> works. Is it true that every (also non XA drives)
>> can read at least the first session of a photo cd?
>> 
>For the second part:  The normal drivers can read the FIRST Session, now it
>only depends, how you handle the data stored. I really do not know how the
>images are stored on the cd (i.e. which format is used)

I think there might be a misunderstanding. I think the second part of
the question was not whether the standard Sound Blaster Drivers will
read Photo-CD single session disks, but whether an DRIVE can read
single session photo CD disks.

Every bit of information I have heard from Kodak and read on Photo-CD
indicates that an XA compatible drive is required to read single session
Photo-CD disks. Beyond this, to read multisession photo-cd disks you need
a photo-cd multisession compatible drive. Of course in both cases you need
compatible drivers!

tj
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From: tmcreek@eos.ncsu.edu (Tobin M. Creek)
Subject: Re: GUS v1.22
Originator: tmcreek@c00361-247dan.eos.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: tmcreek@eos.ncsu.edu (Tobin M. Creek)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:58:05 GMT


In article <1993Jan21.203955.4916@lclark.edu>, harrison@lclark.edu (Mark Harrison) writes:
>
>In article <1993Jan21.203040.4468@lclark.edu> harrison@lclark.edu (Mark Harrison) writes:
>>In article <1993Jan21.013610.19783@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c60c-2lu@web-2a.berkeley.edu () writes:
>>>I just saw the GUS install disks v1.22 uploaded to epas.  I used the v1.21
>>>install disks...my question is, is there any advantage to getting the newer
>>>install disks and installing them?
>
>Sorry about that last one.  The text got lost somewhere along the line. 
>Anyway, I tried the new disks out to see if there was any difference. 
>There really wasn't much that I could see.  Some things had newer dates,
>some older (the readme file is dated from October???), but mostly
>everything was the same.  If you have v1.21 and all the update files, I
>can't see any reason to load these. 
>
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If you like all your eggs in one basket (like me), this is worth getting.
It does not include the new mixer, but I added it using ezarc.

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From: awalsh@mta.ca (Andrew Walsh)
Subject: UNREAL sound help
Reply-To: awalsh@mta.ca
Organization: Mount Allison U, Sackville, N.B. Canada 
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:13:43 GMT

Greetings

I was forwarded here from c.s.i.p.g. I downloaded the amazing demo 
UNREAL but I couldn't get the sound to work. I have a 486/25, 
ATI Stereo F/X card, and 1MB SVGA and 4MB of memory. I tried 
loading different drivers, but with tapiati it wouldn't load
at all. Any suggestions?
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From: starr-daniel@yale.edu (Daniel Starr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: GUS vs. LAPC-1 stuff....
Date: 27 Jan 1993 15:55:14 -0500
Organization: Yale University Science & Engineering UNIX(tm), New Haven, CT 06520-2158
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In article <C1J0r1.Fr1@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca> ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran) writes:
>In article <1993Jan27.064552.43267@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> ry01@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ROBERT YUNG) writes:
>>Anyway, doesn't the LAPC-1 have only 128K of ROM to hold all its music? They
>>sound great and I think they're 16bit. Now why does the GUS need so much more
>>memory to hold music (ie: up to 1mb)??
>>
>
>The LAPC-1 only stores the attack transient as samples... the sustain
>is handled via FM synthesis.  The GUS uses samples for the sustain
>as well as the attack, and thus, requires more memory.

I have an LAPC-1, while I keep hearing about the GUS.
Can anyone tell me from experience:  in native mode, how does the GUS sound
compared to the LAPC-1 (or SCC-1)?  If it's as good or better, how does it
arrange to be half the price?  If it's not, why/how is it better than a
boring Sound Blaster Pro?

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From: rford@datatek.csir.co.za (Richard Ford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: MT32 manuals and other info please...
Date: 26 Jan 1993 06:27:19 GMT
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Morning all

I have just purchased an MT32 tone generator but without the manual.  Does 
any kind soul have an electronic copy of same - or, any info on modifying 
the tones, saving the banks etc...

Thanx in advanx - Richard
From: stewarta@netcom.com (Alex Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: About Sound Cards
Date: 25 Jan 93 19:11:20 GMT
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Lee Fu Wing (fwlee@cs.cuhk.hk) wrote:
: Can any tell me about the features about GUS?
:   1.  The full name of this sound card.  

Gravis UltraSound.

:   2.  The price of this card

Not sure.. was hearing things about US$130 not too long ago, I think.

:   3.  The manufacturer  

Advanced Gravis
(don't know the address or phone number.  anyone?)

:   4.  The characteristics (eg. sampling rate, no. of bits...etc) 

44.1 ksamples/sec, 16-bit, wavetable synthesis music generation.

:   5.  Compatibility  (SB compatibility or SB pro compatibility)

All SB compatibility is done through a software driver, and thus has problems
with some programs that need SB compatibility.  Most programs work, however,
and programs written specifically for the GUS can produce far better output
than the SB ever could.

:   6.  Quality 

Basically a high-end card for a low-end price.  The one drawback is its SB
emulation.  The one major plus is its wavetable synthesis.  If all you ever do
is play games, you probably don't want it, but if you're interested in anything
more sophisticated, it's quite nice.

: Thanks for anyone who try to answer my question

Note:  I don't yet have one myself.. this is all based on what I've read in
this conference.

-alex
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