Unnofficial GUS Patch For StoneKeep that works on the CD Version

Well, I just got this wonderfull game and to my dismay it didn't support my GUS
for music and MegaEm doesn't work on my machine (no NMI).  So I set out looking
for a Patch to fix it, I found the V1.1 Patch
(ftp.interplay.com/pub/patches/sk_*), and I also found a patch that claimed to
make it work on my GUS.  Trouble is that it didn't work, it requires that your
replace the HMI drivers, which are located on the CD.  So I set about making it
work.

The result is this very very convoluted patch.  I have included in this
archive all the files that are required to fix V1.1 of stonekeep, you should
have the V1.1 patch installed.

Here is how it works, unzip the included archive into your stonekeep
directory, with directories (-d).  It will overwrite setup.exe and
patch\sk_v11.exe as well as adding a few new files.  You must then edit
gusset.bat and skgus.bat to change the stonekeep directory if you didn't
install to c:\stonekee, the line:

append c:\stonekee /PATH:ON /X:ON

Is the one to change, mine reads

append c:\games\stonekee /PATH:ON /X:ON

Once that is done run guset and choose General Midi, port 330.  Also choose a
card for digital (GUS or GUS max).  Then test MIDI and Digital, if all went
well you should hear lovely GUS sounds for MIDI!  On my 512k gus I found that
I couldn't have ProPats installed, it would screw up, prolly due to lack of
memory.  After the setup works save and exit and run skgus.  The game should
load and run fine.

How This Patch Works

Well, it's very simple, Interplay was kind enough to include FULLY WORKING GUS
DRIVERS in the HMIMDRV.386 file.  Pity they didn't let you set them up.  This
patch only makes minor changes to the HMIMDRV.386 file to change the driver ID
of the MIDI driver to equal the driver ID of the GUS driver (the two are
swapped) Also, the GUS Driver is hard coded to run on port 220, for some
reason setting it in the setup program doesn't work.

Now, all this HMI twiddling was done by mok@slip.net, the person who put out
skeepgus.zip.  Like I mentioned before, the drivers are on the CD.  The
solution to that is rather complex (well, the one I found is)!  StoneKeep will
NOT search the hard drive for HMI drivers, only the CD.  So what I did is
modified setup.exe and sk_v11.exe so that it loaded HMI*.396, not HMI*.386.
Then I ran append and set it to append the driectory with the renamed HMI
files, now it loads them from the hard drive.

The net result is that the only reason GUS support couldn't be added by
Interplay is that setting the MIDI port to 220 and the digial port to 220
doesn't seem to work!  Donno why!  Write them letters :>

Take Care,
Culus of Ethos,
gunthorg@cuug.ab.ca