Happy News for all Gravis Ultrasound Owners and DOOMers:

Here's how to get FX AND MUSIC (and we're talking native mode-why-
would-anyone-ever-buy-another-soundblaster-again-quality-sound):


id left out a crucial file in the initial release of DOOM. However, it's 
a file many of us already have- "ultramid.ini." They renamed it "dmxgus.ini," 
and it *must* be in your DOOM directory (that is, where the DOOM exectuable 
is- *not* the DOOMDATA directory on the "c" drive which contains your saved 
games and configuration file.) With this file in place, you'll get beautiful, 
scary sounding music.

As far as SFX problems go- be sure you are using an interrupt *less* than 
irq 9. The setup program is quirky about when it will ask you for irq's, 
etc., so you may have to fool with it. The values in the cfg file are 
(decimal conversion from hex addrs?) different, so you can't do it 
directly. (I found that I could get it to ask for irq.'s etc. when I 
tried changing to a SB and back.)

--> Note: the problem for most people is with almost certainly these 
--> two things: 

        1) No dmxgus.ini (it isn't being distributed with the game, 
           yet.), and
           
        2) "Setgus" defaults to IRQ 11 for GUS, and DOOM
            supports no higher than 9. So you probably have your irq
            set for 11. You must change this.


OK. Where to find "dmxgus.ini," or "ultramid.ini" (which you'll have to 
rename): 

On CompueServe- I've uploaded it to the GAMERS FORUM arcade/action library 
section, and also to the PC VENDOR B Advanced Gravis library section. If
you've previously gotten the Miles drivers (AIL/DIGPACK) from somewhere, you 
already have "ultramid.ini." Put it in your DOOM subdirectory, and 
you're all set. NOTE: I have seen on the INTERNET someone advising people 
to ALSO run "Ultramid." This IS NOT NECESSARY. OK?

On the Internet- It's all over the place, but try the GUS ftp site at:
        archive.epas.utoronto.ca \pub\pc\ultrasound\submit

        (it's in the submit dir becuase, as of today, it's not been checked
         for viruses, etc.)

Finally,

Here is the note from id sent out over the Internet:

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From: ddt@daisy.cc.utexas.edu (David Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject: idNews: GUS & other stuff
Date: 11 Dec 1993 03:34:19 -0600
Organization: id Software
Lines: 171
Message-ID: <2ec46s$3i@daisy.cc.utexas.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: daisy.cc.utexas.edu

Wow.  Er.  It seems we've sorta clogged the net.

First off, thanks for the congrats and support!  We're tired and
need it.  :)

Secondly, to those of you not getting any GUS music, that's because
there's one line I commented out of the game and forgot to put back in
while debugging it last night.  Included at the end of this post is a
file to get that to work for you.  The file must be named DMXGUS.INI.
It's included at the end of this post.  Someone please put this on ftp
sites when the bandwidth comes back.  No one's here tonight except me
and I don't know what our account is on AOL, CompuServe, etc., so if
someone could upload this file to these places, I'd appreciate it.
Stick it in your DOOM directory, and when you run doom, run it from
that directory (don't stick c:\doom in your path and run it from
somewhere else).  When you start up doom with this, you should notice a
difference.  It'll hit the disk after you see the DMX_Init thing in the
DoomOS startup stuff.

Thirdly, we're trying to keep up with the net-posted bugs.  We're
trying to get a SoundBlaster 1.0 to our sound guy so that he can
figure out what the deal is (they're not made anymore).  Those
V_DrawPatch() errors will take a little while.



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-keith