GUS Daily Digest Sun, 22 Jan 95 9:37 PST Volume 18: Issue 21 Today's Topics: Audio CD problem CD Audio connection CD digital through SCSI bus -- where are FTP sites? gus & Hell GUS Programming Info? Marcato IS wrong! Official Suppliers Ultima Underworld 2 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: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 19:06:41 -0700 (MST) From: rkornilo@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Ryan Korniloff) Subject: Audio CD problem > Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 13:38:03 -0500 > From: Maciej Kalisiak > Subject: CD Audio connection > > I recently got myself a CDROM drive, Sony CDU-55E I think its called, and > I have a small problem. Everything works fine except the audio CD > connection. I checked the cable and it seems fine. I checked the pinouts > and they both match on the CDROM and GUS (left ground ground right, or > symmetrically reversed). I stick in a plain audio CD, get it playing with > a CD player prog, and nothing comes out of the gus, while the headphone > jack actually works, and I can listen to the CD with my earphones. I > tried all possible switches on ultrinit. I'm totally clueless. My only > possible suspcion is that the CDROM is of the variety that connects > directly to the IDE interface, as opposed to a dedicated board or the GUS. > > Any ideas? > Uhh.. the only thing I can think of is the go into the \ultrasnd directory on your HD and use ULTRAMIX. Use the -h switch and get a list of the switches. Enable the cd and make sure the gain is all the way up. You said you messed with ULTRINIT so I assume that means you tried the -ec switch? -- Ryan Korniloff -- rkornilo@nyx10.cs.du.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 16:17:22 UTC-0800 From: Brad Hawthorne Subject: Re: CD Audio connection > I recently got myself a CDROM drive, Sony CDU-55E I think its called, and > I have a small problem. Everything works fine except the audio CD > connection. I had the same problem with my system, but I soon discovered that, by default, the GUS doesn't have its CDROM line input enabled. At that time, the only way for me to get it working was to 'initialize' the soundcard in some way first (ie. run a MOD player). But after I grabbed the 3.59 disks, I found a utility on them that did it directly. (I forgot the name of it, I don't think it was ultrinit) Hope that helps. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 21:44:36 -0800 (PST) From: "Peter C. Chien Jr." Subject: CD digital through SCSI bus -- where are FTP sites? I have been directed to try these programs to sample audio through my Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM drive. > CDDA -> For some SCSI-CDROM's > DA2WAVxx -> Newer version of CDDA ?? > CDGRAB SCSI also (?), demo-version available for testing only > CDGRAB-PRO ? > CDDAREAD ? > CDINFO Non scsi and maybe also scsi > CDMON ? > CDAR ? But my archie reveals no sites for them (or they're other things that have the letters "cd" in them). Can someone tell me which sites have them? Also, someone mentioned that it might be possible to route digital audio directly to the GUS rather than recording to disk and then playing it as a .wav file. Has such a program been developed yet? Thanks. -Peter ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 18:28:47 -0600 (CST) From: 5087RAISSIA@vmsa.csd.mu.edu Subject: gus & Hell I was wondering if anyone had success fully ran the CD-ROM hell with the regualr GUS? If so, how? Also, did anyone figure out why the digital output from WCIII to the GUS is only 8 bit? Thank you in advance, Abbas ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jan 95 09:34:44 EST From: Pooya Hemami Subject: GUS Programming Info? I'd like to program for my GUS in Turbo Pascal but I don't have any SDK or whatever. If there are any GUS programming units or SDKs available on the net, can someone tell me where I can FTP one from? Thanks. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Jan 1995 13:53:13 GMT From: "Mark D. Billinge" Subject: Marcato IS wrong! > I don't think the marcato.pat is messed up. I've been in an > orchestra and seen many. The violins are on the left, the voilas and > cellos middle and near right, and the basses are on the right. If the > patch is played the other way, _then_ one will be sitting _in_ the orchestra. I agree with you about the arrangement you say - if you re-read the original message, I said exactly what you said - that is the violins were on the right in marcato.pat and should be on the left - I'm not entirely uncultured myself either! As the patch stands, the bass strings are on the left. That's wrong, surely, if you are in the audience. Which is the obvious place you would be. Mark ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 13:32:18 -0500 From: Mighty Man Subject: Official Suppliers Does anyone know who are licensed/authorized retailers of Gravis products overseas? I just came back from Singapore and I saw a store there with the name Advanced Gravis Computer Technology PTE Ltd. They didn't carry the Gravis Ultrasound, they didn't even know what it was. They were selling PC-Clones (with names like Gravis Special), which nicely enough had SoundBlasters in them. Can Gravis sue these guys? They're definitely giving Gravis a bad name. Ivan ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Jan 95 16:29:40 EST From: rschutt@pen.k12.va.us (Ryan Andrew Schutt) Subject: Ultima Underworld 2 Anyone know how to get UW2 working with ultramid? ------------------------------ End of GUS Daily Digest V18 #21 ******************************* To post to tomorrow's digest: To (un)subscribe or get help: To contact a human (last resort): FTP Sites Archive Directories --------- ------------------- Main N.American Site: ftp.orst.edu pub/packages/gravis wuarchive.wustl.edu systems/ibmpc/ultrasound Main Asian Site: nctuccca.edu.tw PC/ultrasound Main European Site: src.doc.ic.ac.uk packages/ultrasound Main Australian Site: ftp.mpx.com.au /ultrasound/general /ultrasound/submit South African Site: ftp.sun.ac.za /pub/packages/ultrasound Submissions: archive.epas.utoronto.ca pub/pc/ultrasound/submit Newly Validated Files: archive.epas.utoronto.ca pub/pc/ultrasound Mirrors: garbo.uwasa.fi mirror/ultrasound ftp.st.nepean.uws.edu.au pc/ultrasound ftp.luth.se pub/msdos/ultrasound Gopher Sites Menu directory ------------ -------------- Main Site: src.doc.ic.ac.uk packages/ultrasound WWW Pages --------- Main Site: http://www.cs.utah.edu/~debry/gus.html Main European Site: http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/ultrasound/ Main Australian Site: http://ftp.mpx.com.au/archive/ultrasound/general/ http://ftp.mpx.com.au/archive/ultrasound/submit/ http://ftp.mpx.com.au/gravis.html Mirrors: http://www.st.nepean.uws.edu.au/pub/pc/ultrasound/ MailServer For Archive Access: Email to Email to New Submit Files Mailing List: Email to with content "subscribe epas-list " Hints: - Get the FAQ from the FTP sites or the request server. - Mail to for info about other GUS related mailing lists (programmers, musicians, etc.).