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From: stewarta@netcom.com (Alex Stewart)
Subject: Re: Turbo C SDK stuff (PAS-16)
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 19:43:13 GMT

Rob Lizak Jr. (lizakre@snybufva.cs.snybuf.edu) wrote:
: I downloaded the SDK for Pro Audio Spectrum 16 and Borland/Turbo C.  I have
: been trying to assemble the 3812A.ASM file for the longest time with Turbo
: Assembler with no luck.  Has anyone out there gotten this baby to assemble into
: an object module.  I get tons of errors flying up my screen!  (Undefined symbol
: @@, multiply defined symbol @@, etc).  I thought maybe I had a corrupt copy of
: the SDK, so I redownloaded, but the same problems occured.  Can anyone clue me
: in?

Sounds like the code was written to be assembled with some of TASMs advanced
options in effect, and doesn't specify this in the file itself.  You might try
experimenting with turning on LOCALS (put a line saying "LOCALS" at the 
beginning of the file or use command line option "/jLOCALS").  If that doesn't
work, try assembling it in IDEAL mode ("IDEAL" in the file or "/jIDEAL" in the
command line).

This kind of thing really should be specified in the file itself, but it is 
possible that it isn't.  Your mention of it choking on "@@" sounds like it may
be trying to use local labels when they aren't turned on.

hope this helps..
-alex

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: fisher@nodename.dec.com
Subject: Cakewalk and GUS
Summary:  It sortof works
Keywords: GUS, Cakewalk
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 01:30:56 GMT


In case some people are interested, Cakewalk Pro/DOS works with GUS and SBOS
(no switches).  It doesn't sound the best, but it does work.  I'm in the
process of getting Cakewalk/Windows which should support native via the Windows
drivers, and will report when I get it.

Burns

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: Ray.Chramega <Ray.Chramega@mixcom.mixcom.com>
Subject: COVOX VS SBPro - Which is Better?
Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:06:05 GMT


    As my subject header would suggest, I've read a lot of magazine ads for
COVOX and they make the COVOX sound system sound like a miracle card that
would run circles around SOUND BLASTER. I'm currently stuck with ADLIB so
I'm sure I'd be pretty darned impressed by anything better than I've already
got. I plan on moving up to something better pretty soon... but what? any
help will be appreciated.

    Thanks!

-Ray

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From: devasoft@cup.portal.com (David Michael Alves)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: AdLib Developer's Software 4 Sale
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 05:35:13 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: usa

I posted the following a little over a month ago, and am finally
getting around to posting it again after finding a buyer, but then 
not hearing from him again.  Anyway, if anyone is interested, send me
email.

**************

I have an extra set of the following manual and pieces of software for 
sale, all brand new, the latest versions, and still in the shrink wrap.  

These products are from AdLib, but will work with compatible cards (like
the Sound Blaster).  The entire set makes a great development system.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

1) AdLib Music Synthesizer Card Programmer's Manual ......... $30.00
   (Includes all the info you need to program music and 
    sound effects on your AdLib, Sound Blaster, or compatible 
    cards.  Contains manual and disks with source code.)

2) AdLib Visual Composer ..................................... 65.00  
   (Let's you easily compose music for your AdLib,
    Sound Blaster or compatible card.)

3) AdLib Instrument Maker .................................... 35.00       
   (Create instruments for your AdLib, Sound Blaster 
    or compatible card)           
    
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1st Class shipping and insurance is included in the above prices.  Mail me 
if interested, or if you'd like more information.

Thanks,
David Alves
devasoft@cup.portal.com
From: seah@ee.rochester.edu (David Seah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: "Digital ready" speakers - ?
Date: 28 Dec 92 23:12:44 GMT
Organization: Univ of Rochester, College of Engineering and Applied Science

In article <1992Dec28.080350.203429@uctvax.uct.ac.za> bxxmic01@uctvax.uct.ac.za writes:
>What does "Digital ready" actually mean when describing speakers?

It's a big hype word, implying that the product is capable of handling the
dynamic range that digital audio components are capable of.  In other words,
a "digital ready" set of speakers should be able to accurately reproduce 
the wide range of frequencies one might encounter, from the lowest lows to
the highest highs.  Digital Ready also implies that the speaker won't blow
up when it gets fed extremely high transients, such as cannons going off
in a quiet meadow.  If you had your stereo turned up so you could hear the
gentle chirping of the meadow crickets juuusssst before the cannons went
off, your speakers will go bye-bye.  If they are "digital ready", they might
not blow up quite as readily. 

>A pair of (Labtec SS-200) amplified speakers I have are described as "digital 
>ready" and "compact disc digital audio" is marked on them.  But is there any 
>functional meaning, or is this just hype?

Hype!  We bought their "top of the line" (and I use the term loosely) SS-400
speakers as a Christmas present.  They had the frequency response of a tin
plate rattling in the wind.  They probably would have survived the cannons
and meadow test, primarily because these speakers are so inefficient that 
they cut down the signal-to-noise ratio way down to where it can't hurt
anyone.  They would have been acceptable for something like a SoundBlaster,
had they not started to smoke and crackle soon after testing them with a
new Gravis Ultrasound.  The left speaker cone was ripped or something...
this may have saved our lives.  I think we had a run of extreme bad luck,
so your SS-200s are probably fine if you're not dead by the time you read
this.

We bought some Radio Shack speakers...a definite step up as far as I'm
concerned.  The Minimus 7 speakers ($49 per speaker) are really quite nice,
made of durable cast aluminum (no boomy bass) are are also 2-way for better
overall reproduction of bass and treble.  The Shack carries some less
expensive speakers as well, but they are of the single-cone variety.
They aren't amplified like the Labtecs, but a 2-watt per channel amp drives
them adequately (so far...:/


>Replies via e-mail would be appreciated.
> 
>Thanks
>Mike


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From: ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran)
Subject: Re: GUStuff
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 08:36:01 GMT

In article <1gut2iINNi27@agate.berkeley.edu> joak@ocf.berkeley.edu (Jonathan A. Kung) writes:
[...]
>I still haven't gotten any digitized sounds on Falcon3, even when
>I cut the cache (I have just 2 megs) for about 600Kb expanded. I
>tried sbos w/ and w/o -o2, loaded high, but I didn't get any speech.
[...]

I've just yanked my SB out of my machine to see what living with just
SBOS was like.  The first thing I tried was Falcon 3.0.  Using SBOS with
no switches at all, I got music and speech out of the game.  What version
of SBOS do you have?  I know that 1.20 didn't play the speech correctly.
In fact, it would just choke and leave you musicless as well as speechless.
SBOS 1.22 works fine for me, however.

Phat.
From: cyberman@exucom.com (Stephen R. Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: TSR to Disney Sound Source -> Covax DAC (LPT type DAC)
Date: 29 Dec 92 03:43:31 GMT
Organization: ExuCom Multimedia Inc.
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Tooraj Enayati (tooraj@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au) wrote:

: Before I sit down and start writing a TSR to translate the output of
: programs sending music to a Disney Sound Source into a Covax Sound Thing 
: (the usual home made DAC which connects to LPTx), does any one know of
: such a thing. 

: I had a look at afew ftp sites but couldn't find any thing. I am sure
: there are a lot of people out there who'd love to have something like
: that. 

: Please if you know of such a program send me mail or post here.

	I have some bad news for you.  Unless your computer is REAL
REAL REAL REAL fast this won't be very useful.  The reason is that the
Disney Sound Source has a hardware fifo that clocks it's data output
at a fixed frequency.  When the data runs out it uses the printer port
interupt to notify the program.  The program then fills the fifo
again.  

The fifo is only 16 bytes BUT this is sufficient divide the number of
interupts by 16.  For example the fifo is playing at 8k samples per
second.  this means only 500 interupts per second as opposed to the
8000 your TSR would have to provide.  Not only that but the TSR would
have to provide semi acurate timing.  Also many programs DIRECTLY run
the port.  So this will totally defeat your TSR.

The solution is to build you own Disney sound sorce.

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From: ylee@norton.uwaterloo.ca (Yuri Lee)
Subject: Re: Is the GUS' wavetable synt compatible with EPS-16??
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 17:24:19 GMT

In article <d2henan.726064569@dtek.chalmers.se> d2henan@dtek.chalmers.se (Andreas Henning) writes:
>No, it must have some sort of synthesizer. I've been
>playing around with the patches, trying to feed them through
>a sample player, like Blaster Master, and most patches
>sound horrible, so they can't be pure samples.

It will sound horrible since Blaster Master cannot playback 16-bit samples.
From: DCROWLEY@brownvm.brown.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: PAS-16 Midi MPU-401
Date: 24 Dec 92 16:09:17 GMT
Organization: Brown University - Providence, Rhode Island  USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: brownvm.brown.edu
News-Software: BNN via BNN_POST v1.0 beta

Voyetra makes a couple of midi adaptors for  your sound card.

A generic Roland Mpu-401 interface with one port. Model # V-4000.

A dual port midi box. Model # V-22. (2 in - 2 out)
Above with Roland Mpu-401 Daughter board. Moel # V-22m.

A Quad port midi box with smpte and other stuff. Model # V-24s. (2 in - 4 out)
Above with Roland Mpu-401 Daughter board. Model # V-24sm

I got this info from the Voyetra Catalog that came with the PAS-16.

Voyetra - 1-800-233-9377
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: larry@mits.mdata.fi (Lasse Hero)
Subject: Re: GUS: SBOS vr 1.22
Organization: Microdata Oy
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 18:18:16 GMT

frank@cs.yorku.ca (Frank Pikelner) writes:

>Hello,

>I'm buying the GUS today, and I keep hearing about the new driver for emulating
>the SoundBlaster. The version everyone talks about is 1.22, is it available
>via anonymous ftp? WHere?

In fact the latest one is 1.23 (beta?), available at archive.epas.utoronto.ca
in /pub/pc/ultrasound/submit (or soundutil/).

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From: p.e.morris@larc.nasa.gov (Philip Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: CDROM Help
Date: 23 Dec 1992 13:56:33 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center
Distribution: world
Reply-To: p.e.morris@larc.nasa.gov (Philip Morris)
NNTP-Posting-Host: atbmac1.larc.nasa.gov
Keywords: PAS

 >Hello all!
>   Im interested in getting a CDROM for my machine. I already have a PAS-16
>in there. Now, does anyone know if the Texel 5024 will work ok with the PAS?
>Also, anyone know if the Mitsumi is any good? Thanks.

I have a Mitsumi in my machine with my PAS-16 and Have had only one problem.  
I can't find a cable to 
connect the CD audio to the PAS internally.  So I have a jerry-rigged cable 
right now.  Personally 
between the Mitsumi at home and the Toshiba at work I prefer the Mitsumi, 
because you don't have to 
use CD caddies.

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From: jayward@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Jay Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: gus with opti 82C495
Keywords: gus opti
Date: 3 Jan 93 17:42:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: pdxgate.6646

brawicz@fraser.sfu.ca (Boleslaw Andrzej Rawicz) writes:

>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?).

I have a 486/33 with three OPTI chips marked 82C206, 82C492, 82C493 (I
don't know which "chipset" this would be referred to as).  I am having
no troubles with THREE soundcards installed at once.  I have an LAPC-1,
an Ultrasound, and a PAS-16 all peacefully coexisting.  The GUS and the
PAS-16 can only be used one at a time (ie.  I use a boot swithcher to
select the drivers for either one or the other) but the LAPC-1 has no
problems existing with either one.  Just make sure that you don't use
address 230h for the GUS if you want it to work with the LAPC-1.

Good Luck!


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From: aa344@yfn.ysu.edu (Joseph Maruschek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: Is the GUS' wavetable synt compatible with EPS-16??
Date: 3 Jan 93 18:38:06 GMT
Reply-To: aa344@yfn.ysu.edu (Joseph Maruschek)
Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH


In a previous article, knepley@CS.ColoState.EDU (Ranseus Jim Knepley)) says:

>In article <d2henan.726064569@dtek.chalmers.se> d2henan@dtek.chalmers.se (Andreas Henning) writes:
>>pja@snakemail.hut.fi (Petri Juhani Jarre) writes:
>>>>   Does anyone know what kind of synthesizer the GUS has?
>>>None? Every posting I have seen imply that it is simply sample
>>>playback hardware.  
>>No, it must have some sort of synthesizer. I've been
>>playing around with the patches, trying to feed them through
>>a sample player, like Blaster Master, and most patches
>>sound horrible, so they can't be pure samples.
>
>It was my impression that a patch consists of two or three (maybe more?)
>samples of the instrument at different pitches.  When the GUS is playing,
>it finds the sample closest to the note it wants and runs it through a
>filter to change the frequency while keeping the same dynamic.  It's
>more than sample playback hardware, but not too much more.

You're right, the GUS can do more than just playing back digital
samples.  All of the patch files contain at least one sample, and
as Yuri Lee said, they are 16-bit samples.  You can hear the
sample in the patch file if you do a PLAYFILE -16 -o335.  The
sample begins at an odd offset and consists of unsigned binary
data.  Some patches do have multiple samples taken over the range
of the instrument; for example, the acpiano1.pat file has at
least 6 samples. 
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From: knepley@CS.ColoState.EDU (Ranseus (Jim Knepley))
Subject: Possible FAQ (is there a FAQ?) re: GUS sources
Summary: GUS pointers wanted
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 03:56:06 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University

Before I shelled out the cash for my Gravis Ultrasound, I remember reading
about FTP sites and a mailing list specifically for the GUS.  Can anyone
point me in the right direction for either/both of these?

Thanks much,
  Jim

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: marcs@crpmks.uucp (Marc Snyder)
Subject: Re: pas-16 internal cd audio cable?
Organization: CIBA-GEIGY Corporation, Additives Division
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:26:50 GMT

In article <Bzo2LB.BHq@visix.com> linda@visix.com (Linda Thomas) writes:
>I have a pas-16.  I also have a texel internal cd-rom (hooked up to an
>ultrastor scsi controller). I'm trying to find where I can get a cable to
>go from the audio out on the back of the cd-rom to the internal audio in on
>the pas.  No such cable came with either the pas-16 or the cd-rom. Any
>pointers to where such a cable could be obtained would be greatly appreciated!

I don't know if the audio port on the back of the Texel is the same as
the one on my NEC-84, but if it is, I ordered the cable from the NEC
spare parts department.  It cost me ~$10.  

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: shane@cs.UAlberta.CA (Ruman Shane James)
Subject: More Ultrasound problems
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 22:19:07 GMT

	After solving one problem with the windows drivers I'm faced
	with another.  When windows starts up it states "Error 3 loading
	acpiano1.pat" or a similar message for every instrument in the 
	ultrawin.cfg file.  Then the media player wouldn't make a sound.
	Of course any help would be greatly appreciated.
							Shane
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: VGA GAME & SOURCE (FRING11.lZH)
From: nunn@it.ntu.edu.au (JsNO  BAR---NUNN)
Date: 23 Dec 92 11:20:43 +0900
Reply-To: nunn@it.ntu.edu.au
Distribution: world
Organization: Information Technology, Northern Territory University


  I've now distrubuted my VGA game that I was working on. As noted in
comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard, it's a game where the ground graphics
scroll. There's not a lot of code, but it is very useful for somebody
who wants to learn how to do this. I think you will be impressed though.

You will find it on: "wuarchive.wustl.edu" in the path: "/pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS"


This software is freeware.

  This release is not really documented properly. In another few weeks I will
relase another version with very detailed source documentation.

:JSNO
From: athornto@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Alexander William Thornton)
Subject: .MOD file specifications.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Reply-To: athornto@ics.uci.edu (Alexander William Thornton)
Organization: Anteater Central: The University of California, Irvine
Date: 23 Dec 92 04:00:42 GMT

Hello, netters.  I need to get the file format specifications for any and all
of the various .MOD file formats.  Any FTP sites would be helpful, though if
you happen to have such a file and could simply E-Mail it, wouldn't we all be
a lot happier?  Thanks in advance.

- Alexander W. Thornton, Anteater-at-Large

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: gting@fraser.sfu.ca (Gabriel Sii Kuok Ting)
Subject: SBOS v1.23 uploaded to epas
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:32:55 GMT

Ok, I have just uploaded the file to epas. For those with ftp access, it
is at archive.epas.utoronto.ca in the pub/pc/ultrasound/submit directory
as gus0009.zip. If you have trouble connecting to archive, as a temporary
measure you can ftp to klingon.epas.utoronto.ca or 128.100.160.36.

Happy GUSsing!
Gab.

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From: caross@acsu.buffalo.edu (Christian A. Ross)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Seeking SBPro Programming Information
Date: 29 Dec 92 04:26:15 GMT
Organization: UB

I am seeking references on how to program for the SoundBlaster Pro soundcard.

Does Creative Labs offer a software development kit, and are there any books
available similar to the _Programmer's_Guide_to_the_EGA/VGA_Cards_ by 
Ferraro? 

I would be especially interested in any freeware source code (any language)
demonstrating how to access the card to output digitized sound, voice and 
music.

Thanks in advance.
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From: gting@fraser.sfu.ca (Gabriel Sii Kuok Ting)
Subject: GUS and TB woes...
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 10:48:59 GMT

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?

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:

Wolf 3D: won't recognise the existence of an SB or Adlib. I think Phat mentioned something about running SBOS and unloading it, but when I tried it, I got
garbage out of the TB and the computer froze. Hmm... doesn't sound too nice.

Terminator 2029: music played fine, but no digital sounds at all. And yes, I 
did mess around with the term.exe file so it would play digitised sounds via
irq5 (posted some time back) - after all, the sounds worked fine with the GUS
on irq5...

Summer Challenge: Now here's an interesting one. It won't work when I set it
to ThunderBoard, but worked happily in SoundBlaster mode. (Hmm... did I get a
TB or not?) That is, until I ran Windows, and all hell broke loose. Now it 
won't recognise the music device (SB) but recognised the Sound device (also
SB)... even after I cold-booted the machine. Oh great...

On the up side, my other games worked flawlessly. Ultima 7, F1GP (yay!) and
a few others. Can anyone offer any advice as to what is wrong and what can 
be done to solve my probs? Phat?
Thanks in advance.

Gab.
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