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GUS Daily Digest            Wed, 12 Apr 95  9:37 PST     Volume 21: Issue  12 

Today's Topics:
			       Bioforge
	       Direct CD Sampling and OS/2 with XCOM II
		    Games in Dos sessions in os/2
		     GUS compatible motherboards
			     Gus Support
	   No MIDI in Windows - No sounds for Dark Forces.
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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 10:43:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: George <gmontem@mercury.sfsu.edu>
Subject: Re: Bioforge

[stuff deleted]
>I have emailed origin with my opinions but quite franky, If a company of that
>size cannot see for itself that GUS support should be a standard then they
>obviously have their heads to far up their backsides to hear us.
>
>Sad thing is,  It looks to be the best game this year (so far....)

It would be scary if Origin planned not to give this game native GUS 
support as a test to see if GUS users (from the registration cards sent 
back) bought the game though it did not have native GUS support unlike 
its other games, WC3 and S-Shock.  If enough buy the game, they would be 
convinced that they don't need to include native GUS support since they 
would still buy their damn games. 

Just a thought, and a scary one indeed.

-George

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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 13:38:59 -0500 (EST)
From: "Jeffrey K. Salzmann" <JKS4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu>
Subject: Direct CD Sampling and OS/2 with XCOM II

Two questions, one that has been repeatedly asked....

1) What program can I use to directly sample CDs to the GUS? I have a NEAT
   binaural recording I might just upload....

2) Does anybody have XCOM II working with the GUS in OS/2?? I keep getting
   illegal command errors, I doubt this is GUS related but you never know...
   Win95 zealots need not bash...the bandwidth has been wasted too much
   already. Thanks!!

Jeff

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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 12:41:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: h0mi <homi@netcom.com>
Subject: Games in Dos sessions in os/2

I recently discovered the ability of setting your own autoexec.bat file 
for dos sessions under os/2 and was delighted at the prospect of actually 
running games in dos sessions. <If possible, a windowed dos session would 
rule, but I'd settle for a regular full screen dos session>. I've got a 
gus with 1 meg.

I've had a few problems, however. Doom used to work for me, but without 
sound. Now, it crashes on me after a few seconds, but does have sound. 
The sound does get munged after sounding "normal" for a brief moment or so.

I also want to run Pirates Gold under a dos session, but since apparantly 
the dos session doesn't have/emulate EMS ram <needed for the roland 
emulation>, emuset/megaem don't work (and my serial mouse has yet to work 
under a dos session despite using the mouse driver in my os2\mdos directory).

If anyone has had any luck in running any of these games in a dos 
session, please inform me on the settings that you've had, etc. And if 
anyone has ever used Display v1.87, and had sound abilities with the GUS 
(it looks for a SB but wont run with sbos or emuset set) let me know. Thanks.


"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely 
idealizing envy." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Forget term limits. Expand 
voter recall votes!

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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 23:36:01 -0400
From: hmt0018@pop.wimsey.com (Warren Zatwarniski)
Subject: GUS compatible motherboards
Message-ID: <XgqYl4dEv4QC079yn@pop.wimsey.com>

> I just bought a new Deep Green (?) motherboard with an AMD processor.
> Has anyone had any problems with this motherboard or processor and the
> GUS?  Is the NMI (?) enabled so SBOS will run.  I asked the guy I bought
> it from, but he had no idea what I was asking; but it was too good

what caught my eye is this:

> 12mb RAM (8mb 72pin, 4mb 30pin)

When I first upgraded my 386 computer to a 486, I picked up a MB that would
accept both 72pin and 30pin (which I already had) simms . The NMI was *DISABLED*
on the one I purchased, and there was NOTHING I could do to change that.
The store I purchase the board from however did trade me for a different
motherboard, and even exchanged my four 1 meg 30 pin simms for one 4 meg
simm so I could use a motherboard with the NMI enabled on it.

I don't know the name brand of the motherboard that gave me problems, and
as luck would have it, I can't find my manual to this board, so I'm not
even certain of what I have right now ;(

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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 95 19:27:07 EDT
From: pbleile@chat.carleton.ca (Pierre Bleile)
Subject: Gus Support

About Origin no longer supporting GUS...

Does this make any kind of buisiness sense?  One:  This new interwave
chip everyones drooling over is supposed to be Gus compatible; 
therefore, support for Gus = Support for Interwave.  Two:  Why do
these games companies allways go through all this trouble to support the
sound bastard?  That's not a sound card.  That's a piece of s#%t that
farts out noise no one should be force to suffer through.  It's analogous to
making thier software is XT
compatible.  The SB is ancient technology that had its day.  More
people will upgrade to wavetable cards (you know everyone's favourite
:) if more software companies support them.  Is Origin to stupid to
realise this or is someone getting paid off?


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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 95 13:24:04 CST
From: "Mai, DongKinh" <dmai@dttus.com>
Subject: Re: No MIDI in Windows - No sounds for Dark Forces.



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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 95 12:48:27 EDT
From: ghidali@VNET.IBM.COM
Subject: Win95+GUS

Has anyone figured out how to get GUS support for DOS under WIN95?
On the desktop, it works fine, but when I run DOOM or WC3 for example,
if I do not disable audio, the game freezes. Any clues?
Thanx,
Dan

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