Gravis ultrasound under qemu fun with virtualization. Nov 09, 2014 a few months ago i made a guestpost about my personal experiences with the gravis ultrasound cards in this article i mentioned there were a few variants besides the standard gus classic, max, and pnp series. These files set up the windows 95 drivers for the gravis ultrasound family of sound cards based on the gf1 chip. There are three main formats as far as zdoom is concerned. Come to ask questions about getting games to work, about changing the settings, and even about games that free to download. You can probably make megaem work with the sb emulation if you. It is based on a trimmeddown timidity, but is internal to zdoom no need to set up an external program and modified using the ultramid driver source code as reference to. The default ultrasound irq setting of 11 runs into a limitation of the version of dos4gw that is used by various dos video games. Although not many games support it, dosbox does emulate gravis ultrasound, which is considered by aficionados to sound much better than soundblaster. If you cant find what you were looking for, we would appreciate your dropping us a line to let us know. Getting the best midi sound in your emulated environment. From 1993 up to the end of the 90s the gravis ultrasound aka gus was one of the most popular soundcards among programmers and musicians.
The gus patches have long been distributed under this filename. A variety of operating systems can be installed in the emulator, which can then be used to launch programs. This page is dedicated to the pc soundcard called ultrasound formerly manufactured by gravis. It was lunched in 1992 and is notable for its ability to use realworld sound recordings wavetable of a musical instruments rather than artificial computergenerated waveforms.
Its audio was far ahead of any other consumer device of the time, supporting wavetable synthesis, stereo sound, 14channel playback at 44. The gravis ultrasound in qemu is setup for io port 240, irq 7, and dma channel 3. The executable sbos driver crashes the emulation at dos prompt if emm386 is loaded i read sbos 3. Ultramd is a high quality sega md and genesis emulator for android. The original ultrasound card was meant as a competitive product for the soundblaster cards as it provided sound mixing of 32 voices in hardware and came with up to 1mb of onboard sample ram. Gravis ultrasound or gus is a sound card for the ibm pc compatible system platform, made by. Official home of the gravis ultrasound emulator gusemu from 1993 up to the end of the 90s the gravis ultrasound aka gus was one of the most popular soundcards among programmers and musicians. Rom, is a newly updated eeprom file that reduces your irq usage for the.
The file obtained through the above link has the patches precompiled and ready to go. All clones use original gravis gf1 or amd interwave. Gus gravis ultrasound or gus is a sound card for the ibm pc compatible system platform, made by canadabased advanced advanced gravis gus32 computer technology ltd. It is based on a trimmeddown timidity, but is internal to zdoom no need to set up an external program and modified using the ultramid driver source code as reference to make it sound closer to the original sound card. The advanced gravis ultrasound card is a unique sound card in the sound card industry. Heres a few old midis, rerecorded on a gravis ultrasound classic. If you are a developer and looking to produce software for the gravis ultrasound, then visit the gravis ftp site for the software development kit sdk. The company was founded in in british columbia missing. Gravis ultrasound academic dictionaries and encyclopedias. How to enable gravis ultrasound in dosbox for enhanced.
The card features 1 mb of sound rom, no onboard ram although it can be expanded to 8 mb with two 30pin simms, and atapi cdrom. Oct 29, 20 the archive contains two versions of the wavetables, one that is stock that i couldnt get to work, and a patched version. Gravis ultrasound drivers and patches for dosbox howto. Gravis ultrasound drivers and patches for dosbox howto dos. Gravis ultrasound and sbosmegaem sound blaster emulator. For those concerned with the legality of obtaining the patches, the patches are available to download via the gravis ftp site. Taking a look at the legendary wavetable sound board from 1992. How to enable gravis ultrasound in dosbox for enhanced music. Gravis ultrasound or gus is a sound card for the ibm pc compatible systems. Installing gravis ultrasound drivers into windows 95 running on dosbox. Paulin that contained compatibility information for over 400 games released before and during the ultrasound s life. Mar 09, 20 this is the standard set of patch files that were originally distributed with the gravis ultrasound gus driver. Also, if youre interested in the gravis ultrasound experience cdrom, you can download the compressed iso image here 7 megabytes.
Media in category gravis ultrasound the following 10 files are in this category, out of 10 total. Feb 01, 2018 i have a question about the gravis ultrasound card and its sound blaster emulator, sbos and megaem. Breaking eggs and making omelettes blog archive ode to. The miles sound library for dos ensures that almost any recent game will have native ultrasound support. Virtual dos machine, the dos emulation provided by ntvdm. Be distributed with dosbox, so you will need to download them from another website. Though not as good as the live orchestra music of the playstation version, it provides a big improvement in music quality. Pc speaker, creative cmsgameblaster, tandy 3 voice, adlib, sound blaster pro16, disney soundsource and a gravis ultrasound. The glist is a text file created and maintained by marc y. If this not working, download and unzip the the full dos installer. I have a question about the gravis ultrasound card and its sound blaster emulator, sbos and megaem. If you need help with dosbox, this is the place you need to be. I know not graphical area, but maybe not planned in the future gus emulation sotware e. Gravis ultrasound, the famous 32voicewavetable card using up to 1 mb of sample ram, capable of mixing up to 14 voices at 44.
Feel free to follow along if you recall the dos days of the earlymid 1990s. Gus is a gravis ultrasound emulator available as one of the software synthesizers offered by zdoom. Since gus was one of the two most popular soundcards during dooms release the other being soundblaster, and since prboomplus already has opl2 emulation, i think it would a good idea for prboomplus to support gus emulation as well. For other locations that mirror the freebsd software see the file mirror. It is powered by the gf1 chip and one of its most notable features is wavetable synthesis, with 256 kb of sample ram upgradeable to 1mb. Gravis ultrasound patches doomworld idgames database frontend.
This page explains how to configure the dos versions of ufotftd to play their midi music through dosboxs gravis ultrasound emulation. I know this is not top priority, and in fact its emulation inside emulation. Good for pcs with limited resources, otherwise i recommend one of the merlin soundfonts. From wikipedia, the free encyclopedia gravis model ultrasound pnp rev bus 16bit. An ultrasound card was able to download the samples to its ram and mix them using fast and high quality. It was very popular in the demo scene in the 1990s, due to its superior sound quality compared to similarlypriced soundcards of its time the gravis ultrasound was unique at the time of its launch 1992 with its use of wavetable samplebased. Since gus was one of the two most popular soundcards during dooms release the other being soundblaster, and since prboomplus already has opl2 emulation, i think it would a good. If youre not sure, or only think so, then you should. How i learned to completely install all gravis ultrasound gus files and. A few months ago i made a guestpost about my personal experiences with the gravis ultrasound cards in this article i mentioned there were a few variants besides the standard gus classic, max, and pnp series. It is also possible to emulate the functioning of both audio devices like the system speaker, sound blaster, adlib, tandy, or gravis ultrasound. Then make sure the game has chosen gravis ultrasound as the audio device, or the game will freeze upon startup.
Jan 10, 2020 advanced gravis computer technology, ltd. Gravis ultrasound gravis ultrasound or gus is a sound card for the ibm pc compatible systems. Dosbox will make you look the old msdos commands over, since all operations are carried out through the instructions of this operating system. You can download this fully updated ultrasnd folder and just point. The advanced gravis ultrasound card is a unique sound card in the sound card. Ini has been created, irq and dma reassignments can be made through manual edits to iw. Many demos, intros, games, trackers and players support it, a large amount of them is written primary or only for the gus. Gravis ultrasound or gus is a sound card for the ibm pc compatible system platform, made by canadabased advanced gravis computer technology ltd. It lists games that are supported natively and lists which emulator sbos, megaem, etc. Zdoom and chocolate doom have support for gravis ultrasound emulation. Many demos, intros, games, trackers and players support it, a large amount of them is. Here is a partial list of games that work with gravis ultrasound. It is a multisession cd with both data and cd audio tracks.
Gravis ultrasound drivers, software specific to gus cards. I believe gravis ultrasound is only practical to use for music. Gravis ultrasound drivers supported games list dosbox contains builtin emulation of the gravis ultrasound gus, one of the best sound card for ibm pc. This is the standard set of patch files that were originally distributed with the gravis ultrasound gus driver. Released a few months ago, the new ultrasound max is the lastest sound card designed by advanced gravis. The gravis ultrasound was an advanced synthesizer released by an unlikely manufacturer. Official homepage of the gravis ultrasound emulator gusemu. Sep 20, 2007 although not many games support it, dosbox does emulate gravis ultrasound, which is considered by aficionados to sound much better than soundblaster.
The card features 1 mb of sound rom, no onboard ram although it can be expanded to 8 mb with two 30pin. Firstly, be sure to set gravis ultrasound emulation to true in the dosbox configuration. Gravis ultrasound patches doomworld idgames database. Is your gravis ultrasound emulation really working. The gravis ultrasound pnp used a chip called the amd interwave, a chip that was. Install gravis ultrasound properly, all files, no errors with pictures. Dls, or downloadable sounds, the standard backed by the midi manufacturers association. Alternatively you can also choose the ultrasound gravis ultrasound for this step, which will. The gravis ultrasound cd appears to be an enhanced version of the gravis ultrasound experience cd containing additional software. It was very popular in the demo scene in the 1990s, due to its superior sound quality compared to similarlypriced soundcards of its time. The gravis ultrasound gus soundcard family was released by advanced gravis during the 1990s.
Jul, 2018 taking a look at the legendary wavetable sound board from 1992. And yes, i tried a separate irq for sb emulation and lowdma, highdma, making sure the cdrom baseport doesnt conflict with gus baseport. If you want to play a modern source port and have it sound like a gus, youll find these helpful. Paulin that contained compatibility information for over 400 games released before and during the ultrasounds life.
The only problem is that gravis ultrasound emulation may not work with the stock dosbox. Sound fonts are used by most software synthesizers for midi playback. Gus emulation support in system emulators dosbox new home after sf. The archive contains two versions of the wavetables, one that is stock that i couldnt get to work, and a patched version. The advanced gravis ultra sound is still an awesome thing to experience with dos pc games, assuming you can track one down. It was very popular in the demo scene during the 1990s.