Date: Thu Jun 17 00:37:33 1993 Errors-To: ultrasound-owner@dsd.es.com From: ultrasound-server@dsd.es.com (Ultrasound Server) Reply-To: ultrasound@dsd.es.com (Ultrasound Daily Digest) Subject: Ultrasound Daily Digest V4 #17 Ultrasound Daily Digest Thu Jun 17 00:37 Volume 4: Issue 17 Today's Topics: bad motherboard causing sampling noise? Canada's Post not a source of national pride. Canadian disks ecoquest 2 EOB II and ver2.06 SBOS problem Football from Dynamix wiht New Sbos gravis / adaptec 1542b MIDI BOX from SB-Pro MOD player for Windows? More GUS 2.06 Problems responses to post The music in Twilight Zone's demo. Ultrasound Daily Digest V4 #16 unsubscribe Where are MY disks? Wow!! Standard Info: - Meta-info about the GUS can be found at the end of the Digest. - Before you ask a question, please READ THE FAQ. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 14:25:22 BST From: "James Andrews, User Support" Subject: bad motherboard causing sampling noise? Message-ID: <9610.9306161325@uk.ac.uel.sol1> Heres a little problem with sampling that has been annoying me for months. When I use the ultrasound to sample anything it has a small amount of noise in the background. This is noticable in the fade sections of samples not so much when you are shouting into the mic. This problem occurs: * with mic or with line in * with no signal, high levels, low levels * under MS windows/USS8/ the SDK example program * with various combinations of emm386, smartdrv, ram disks etc etc In a nutshell whatever I do in software it makes no difference the fizzling noise bursts are still there. I do vaguely remember reading in csips that someone said that there could be a problem with noise on the bus on some motherboards: the fizzling noises are caused by the soundcard picking up and sampling the noise of its own DMA bursts. Is this true for some motherboards? Is clear sampling on a GUS actually possible? If it is the motherboard at fault ( I have a very cheap motherboard) then what statistic do I ask the suppliers in order to get one that I can use for sampling? (eg. bus r/f noise or something ) Will the 16bit sampling daughter card suffer in a similar way? My gus/pc combination plays back pretty much crystal clear Comments please james@sol1.uel.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1993 09:06:27 +0501 (EDT) From: Gunnar Swanson Subject: Canada's Post not a source of national pride. Message-ID: To my dear cousins north of the border, I don't know what you are complaining about after all everybody knows that the Canadian mail service is one of the worst in the world. Not only are the workers always going on stirke but the mail is ALWAYS sloooooow. It can take 4 days to 2 weeks to get a letter from Eastern Canada to the West. This is not to say that the U.S. post does not have its problems our postal workers seem to always be shooting one another. Do not worry it is a wild west thing you would not understand. Anyways my fellow Canadian GUSers do not worry your disks will come, eventually. ;-) Till then happy GUSing Gunnar Swanson gunnar@gibbs.oit.unc.edu end. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1993 09:56:24 -0400 From: "Frank Pikelner" Subject: Canadian disks Message-ID: <9306161356.AA16291@cs.yorku.ca> Did Gravis forget us Canadians. I've been sitting, waiting, wondering when it is that Gravis will decide to send us our promissed disks. I've seen people who have received them from all over the world except us (or me). Any one have any clues? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ___/ / Frank Pikelner /~\ / _/ / Technical Assistant, Department of Computer Science __/ ___/ York University (Toronto, Canada) ,\^/; _/ _/ Internet: frank@cs.yorku.ca _{!}_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 8:05:12 CDT From: Michael J Stumpf Subject: ecoquest 2 Message-ID: <9306161305.AA24143@tamsun.tamu.edu> ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 13:40:31 MST From: Fred W. Kuhlman Subject: EOB II and ver2.06 SBOS problem Message-ID: <199306162040.AA26138@mailsrvr.az05.bull.com> I just received the new version 2.06 disk set from Gravis and after installing them I ran EOB II. The music is horrible. There is a ringing buzz all the time also. The pervious version of SBOS I used was 2.04 and I had no problems with it. I still have the same port setup as before and I am not using any switches. Could someone please help. Thanks.... -- |----------------------------------------------------------| | Fred W. Kuhlman | kuhlman@skate.az05.bull.com | | (602) 862-4425 | Internet: 141.112.24.1 | | BULL BSP/IOSD/IOIE | Building/MS: AZ05/C-71 Phx, AZ | |----------------------------------------------------------| ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 09:36:59 EDT From: thduda@mosaic.uncc.edu (Tony H Duda) Subject: Football from Dynamix wiht New Sbos Message-ID: <9306161336.AA03506@mosaic.uncc.edu> The new sbos (v2.0b9) seems to work with the XWING. But now, I have a problem ith the Front Page Sports: Football from Dynamix. The game have sound at the begining, but later in the actual game playing, no sound and no music. I check the sound is on, and music too. The game works fine with the old sbos. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1993 09:41:47 +0100 (BST) From: Dave Ingles Subject: gravis / adaptec 1542b Message-ID: <23391.9306160841@central1.lancaster.ac.uk> I have just moved my GUS card to a machine which has an Adaptec 1542b SCSI controller installed and I am experiencing problems in getting the GUS to work. Whenever the install program runs the tests, I get the following message and my machine locks up : i/o channel check - checking for segment address... offending segment: 0000 press f1 to disable nmi, f2 reboot When I select the diagnostics section and run the tests, I have found that both 'sbos mode' and 'dma channel' tests display the 'offending segment ...' error and crash the machine Has anyone else experienced this ? Does anyone know of a solution ? Davei -- ``` (o o) --------------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo---------------------------------- >> D.Ingles@uk.ac.lancaster << >> Telephone (0524) 59 3679 << >> Higher Education National Software Archive, << >> Computer Centre, The University, Lancaster, LA1 4YW, United Kingdom << ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 08:23:53 PDT From: Scott.Jordahl@Eng.Sun.COM (Scott A. Jordahl) Subject: MIDI BOX from SB-Pro Message-ID: <9306161523.AA21919@klinger.Eng.Sun.COM> I just inherited an SB-Pro MIDI breakout cable and wanted to know what needed to be done to it to make it work on the GUS. I know there was discusion about this a while back, but I can't seem to find the information anymore on EPAS. Any pointers would be appreciated. -- Scott |=|=|=|=|=| Scott A. Jordahl |=|=|=|=|=| |==|=|=|==| Sun Microsystems - Mt. View, CA |==|=|=|==| |=|=|=|=|=| VOICE: [415] 366-5659 |=|=|=|=|=| |==|=|=|==| INTERNET: scottj@Eng.Sun.COM |==|=|=|==| If you give a man a fish, he'll fish for a day. If you teach a man to fish, he'll fish for a life time.... ... And he'll live for a life time. -- Dan Quayle 10/13/92 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 18:55:33 -0400 From: "Momentary language, sexual situations" Subject: Re: MOD player for Windows? Message-ID: <9306162255.AA17904@magick.tay2.dec.com> > Does anyone know of a MOD player for the GUS that works in > Windows? I've tried Win Pro MOD, but it doesn't seem to > work. Works fine for me, although it does miss notes occasionally and (I think) isn't fully "Protracker" compliant. What doesn't work for you? DDA ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 12:52:32 EDT From: decvax!yfandes.agfa.com!pasky@uucp-gw-2.pa.dec.com (Bob Pasky) Subject: More GUS 2.06 Problems Message-ID: <9306161652.AA03761@yfandes.agfa.com > Ok, so I think I figured out my first problem (GMODDEMO.BAT complains that I need to run MOD\SETUP every time). It turns out I had previously set GUSMOD=C:\ULTRASND\UTILS in my AUTOEXEC.BAT. GMODDEMO.BAT was looking for the GUSMOD.CFG in the MOD directory, and SETUP was putting it in the UTILS directory. GMODDEMO should look for the GUSMOD environment variable, but I don't remember enough about DOS batch programming (backward compatible to version 3.0?) to know if this can be done. Now for a new problem: The Windows Sound Converter! I tried to convert a .SND file previously created with USS8 to a .WAV file (since it's the only thing the SC plays -- why? I thought this was a supposed to be a converter; it should know how to interpret .SND, .VOC and .WAVs). When it finished and put up that totally useless dialog box announcing that it was done, I clicked on OK, and got a GPF which caused an infinite GPF in my Norton Desktop for Windows! Had to use the RESET button to get out... Looks like I'll be using SOX for a while longer. And an update on a previous problem: (LOADSBOS gets an error loading the patch library). I installed a previous version (2.04) of the SBOS directory and the same problem occurs. Yes, I moved the driver and LOADSBOS up to the \ULTRASND directory, and no, I'm not loading it high. Any suggestions? -- Bob ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 8:14:56 CDT From: Michael J Stumpf Subject: responses to post Message-ID: <9306161314.AA25021@tamsun.tamu.edu> For the benefit of the general public, I was told that to fix sierra games it is necessary to use the windoze patchmanager and load a patch set, such as 1024.mid.. Thanks to all of you that responded so quickly. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 11:31:15 +0930 (CST) From: SCARMAN@hfrd.dsto.gov.au (Gavin) Subject: The music in Twilight Zone's demo. Message-ID: <930617113115.43b8@hfrd.dsto.gov.au> Here's something I didn't know but thought the rest of you may be interested as well.... ---------------------------------------------------- G>the music in the last two parts of jungly kitchen are G>great, is it possible to get those in a general type music file? I'd like to G>able to play them as background music on my PC in Windows. Just rename the biggest files to *.MOD and play them with a module-player :-) Morten Eriksen - The Bogeyman / Twilight Zone ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1993 08:55:16 -0600 (MDT) From: HIMELSTEIN MEAD JEFF Subject: Re: Ultrasound Daily Digest V4 #16 Message-ID: On Wed, 16 Jun 1993, Ultrasound Server wrote: > From: MoonCat > Subject: X-Wing... > > I've just installed X-Wing + the new Gravis update disks. SBOS 2.08 seems to > work ok - the adlib music plays and you can even occasionally hear samples. It > does slow the game down a lot (running on a 386,33) but if you turn the > in-flight music off things are ok - and the digital sound works fine. However, > you can still hear the occasional parts of the music, at a low volume - > despite the fact that it should have been switched off. And now when there is > an explosion, I hear a couple of music chords as well as the sample. Has > anyone else had this problem? Am using Dos 5, 4mb Ram configured to 1Mb XMS, > Stacker, SBOS 2.08/2.09b and the ultrasound is configured to DMA channel 1. > I'm having the exact same problem posted here several days ago but got no response. I'm beginning to think that the GUS is just incompatible with Xwing, so much for their "compatibility plus" guarantee Has anyone been able to get Xwing to work (without bugs) with the GUS????? Mead Boulder, Colorado ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 23:07:32 EDT From: Jude M. Greer Subject: unsubscribe Message-ID: <9306170308.AA13751@orca.es.com> sd ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 07:43:45 EDT From: timkwan@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: Where are MY disks? Message-ID: <9306161143.AA14237@pesto> John Smith wrote: >> ALL the disks were mailed out way back when over a one week period. For the umpteenth time...where are *MY* disks!!!!??????? John, I have already sent you my new address as you have requested and I still don't have my disks!!!!!!!! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 0:54:21 PDT From: Aaron Ryan Subject: Wow!! Message-ID: Hey people, Just got my GUS sound board. I was ready for it. I had the memory upgrade waiting and all the software ftp'd and ready to go. The demos played great and so did the mod player (best of all sbstudio). Well, anyway, I had all the Sound Blasters (ver. 1(sucked) -> SBPro(stereo) -> SB 16 ASP (clear-- but not good enough)) and I like the GUS the most. I sold my SB's... Now I'm a dedicated GUSer. I don't care so much about the Gamesand SBOS... supports on the way for the new games anyway. I suggest buying a GUS board it's great!!!!! (Don't wait or you'll miss out on all the excitment) Now, for a question, When I use Winmod in MS-Windows, it sounds just like the old card (sound blaster) in mono and digitized (yuk)....will there ever be a mod player that can play Music to the full Ultrasound capacity (as demonstarted in the demos) underwindows..or is that prohibited by the way windows uses sound cards? Love my GUS..... Aaron "Lone Star" Ryan aaronr@skat.usc.edu ------------------------------ End of Ultrasound Daily Digest V4 #17 ************************************* To post to tomorrow's digest: To (un)subscribe or get help: To contact a human (last resort): FTP sites: archive.epas.utoronto.ca pub/pc/ultrasound wuarchive.wustl.edu systems/msdos/ultrasound Hints: - Get the FAQ from the FTP sites or the request server. - Mail to for info about other GUS related mailing lists (UNIX, OS/2, GUS-MIDI, etc.)