From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: Sound boards (ENOUGH ALL READY!!)
Date: 31 Dec 1992 08:43:53 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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In article <1992Dec30.140115.17000@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> felixc@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (felix.cabral) writes:
>
>This is not comp.sys.ibm.pc.GUS. oops! I mean comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.
>Lets keep this subject where it belongs. Besides, I'm tired of hearing the
>GUS groupies rave about how wonderful it is without telling people it sucks
>when it comes to playing soundblaster compatible games. Oh, excuse me it does
>work on some games if you spend the hours setting it up properly for each
>game.
>

Hi there. You should really join the Ultrasound mailing list. There is a
databse of all the options you need to work with just about all the
games there is out there. You know now wonderful netland is. We all love
to share info and someone is compiling a database of all the settings
needed.

And the other point being, if you read the mailing list, and know that
we have 2 ftp sites for the Ultrasound, and since a lot of stuff are
done in software, Gravis can release fixes/patches as soon as they are
available. And that's exactly what the ftp sites and the Gravis BBSs is
for (among all the other demos and stuff people love to share on the net
that also ends up in the sites). As soon as there are fixes release, all
we have to do is download them and replace our old files with the new
one. Can't do that if it's hardware. And can't have future features
added either! Anyways, among all the fixes and new set of install disks
and whatnots we can download, there is also the latest and greatest
version of the SBOS (SB/Adlib emulation program) we can download. I'm
using version 1.22 right now (1.23 is now available as well) and this
version (if you'd check the databse of all the games and parameters used)
is about 99.9% compatible with all the games. And you don't need any
parameters for most games using this option as well. Version 1.23 is
supposed to be a .sys fiule that is loaded in config.sys. So no
parameter fiddling is needed at all since you just load it once. But
anyways, even version 1.22 which I'm using is just about 100% except in
some games, it doesn't sound quite right. But that's only 1 game out
of too many to count. And some games sounds better under Ultrasound than
on a real SBOS. Check out the mailing list where we have poeple with
both cards in their machines.

Gravis is constantly releasing stuff that we can download for free. I
heard there is now another windows driver available, and a new program
for patch loading. I'll have to check these out. I think we are already
there as far as SB compatibility is concerned. And we are moving into
other areas of software improvements and innovations. Check out the
mailing list for owners and owners-to-be. I'll include info at the end
of this message.

Thomas.
__________________________________________________________________________


	Greetings!

	There's been a lot of talk lately about the Gravis Ultrasound,
as well as the mailing list for it.  I thought I'd put in my two cents
worth on the topic, as I happen to know a little about the mailing
list... I'm the administrator.  :)

	To join, mail to the request server.  It will help you get
signed up.  This is also the address for accessing the mailserver.
Just send mail to:

	ultrasound-request@dsd.es.com

	To post a message onto the digest, mail to:

	ultrasound@dsd.es.com

	If you have trouble with the server, feel free to mail to:

	ultrasound-owner@dsd.es.com

	This will put you in touch with a real human.  If you can't
mail to that, just mail me directly and we'll figure something out.
The server isn't perfect, though, and I'd  really appreciate it if
you'd let me know what goes wrong with it if you try to use it and it
croaks. 

	Thanks for your time!

Note:

The FTP sites are archive.epas.utoronto.ca in directory pub/pc/ultrasound
and wuarchive.wustl.edu in directory systems/msdos/ultrasound.

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