The SB emulation is not "turned on" by default. It's not done through hardware, but rather through a TSR.
I've never tried running Adlib music through my GUS, but I think it works like the SB emulation, and runs via Mega-EM or SBOS, seeing as the GUS has no OPLx chip or equivalent.
I personally use a CT2230 for SB/Adlib and my GUS only for native GUS sound.
I hope that answers your questions 😀

Awesome, yes - exactly what I needed. I am also running a CT2230 😀
It appears on my system I have free: IRQs 3 and 4 , DMAs 3 , 6 and 7 (and ofcourse base address 260) , I trust the GUS can use a combo of my free irq/dma , right?

Ehh, I can't remember what your options are in regards to IRQ, DMA and address, but I could check later (they are set via jumpers on the card), but I'd imagine you'll be fine.
I'll pull out my 486 later (it sits in a narrow shelf under my desk) and have a look.

Right, I'm half talking rubbish.
It's only the address you set via jumpers it seems, and you can find the instructions for that here:
http://www.angelfire.com/pq/osm/misc.html
Aside from that, the rest of the resources are set through variables similar to "setblaster".

great, thanks for all the help LunarG
I have read though that only base address is set via jumpers: irq/dma is set via an initialization program

This is correct. I usually use 240,7,7,7,7.

^ 7,7,7,7 ?
I get IRQ/DMA at 7,7 but the rest of the sevens?

Hi and Low dma and irq. I.e. 8-bit and 16-bit.

Didn't knew GUS needed high/low dmas.... :\

DMA is used with the GUS for faster transfer of sample data to the memory. Some programs have switches to transfer by PIO only.
However with 7,7,7,7 the same IRQ and the same DMA is used for 8 and 16 bit. You can not use Full-Duplex and 8+16 bit at the same time though. I haven't encountered a program that makes use of this yet. So I reduce the required resource this way to one port, one irq and one dma.

Now I get it 😀
I'll do the same , I only require playback atm

I have to admit I am a bit disappointed that some games with native GUS support only run mono sound though, like Under a Killing Moon. It does have a "Stereo" tickbox, but it's greyed out when running GUS sound. Oh well, I shall not complain, as the game does at least support the card in the first place 😁

thanks for the info both of you 😀
I just payed for the classic, it's a 3.73 revision 😀

Just a followup question, is there a place to grab a huge archive of MODS ?
I have a couple of gigabytes in my Amiga1200 that I can use (game soundtracks mostly) but the naming conversion to 8+3 characters will be ultra lame...
Any sources on this?

I also run my Classic at 240,7,7,7,7 and not had any problems or conflicts with an AWE64 Gold. You will want to upgrade RAM to 1MB if not already.
I think there's a jumper to disable the gameport?

Great things to run on it (native only):

Second Reality
Crystal Dream 2
Crusader: No Remorse
Star Control 2
Pinball Fantasies
Epic Pinball
Jazz Jackrabbit
One Must Fall 2097

I also have a GUS classic somewhere... never had the time to try it, other than a simple diagnostic run.
Then again, having virtually all major ISA soundcard leaves a LOT of other cards to be tried and tested...
SB emulation is bad on the GUS, AdLib is horrific from what I heard. I am using the GUS ACE instead of the classic, in native mode only, just like keropi.
If one can go around the phantom joystick port issue and reverse stereo (GUS Ace 1.0 only) then it is a perfect secondary sound card for gaming and early demoscene stuff.

There are games without General MIDI support but with the AIL drivers the GUS produces fantastic music in these, like the original Space Hulk. This is, of course, done with loadpats, so is not exactly "native" mode 😀

keropi wrote:

Just a followup question, is there a place to grab a huge archive of MODS ?
I have a couple of gigabytes in my Amiga1200 that I can use (game soundtracks mostly) but the naming conversion to 8+3 characters will be ultra lame...
Any sources on this?

I'd recommend http://www.modarchive.com, but they have modernized the naming on most of the stuff to longer file names, and you generally have to download individual tunes.
There's a lot of good stuff there though.

yeah, I have visited modarchive... will keep looking for a phat mod pack and report back in case I find one 😊

You shouldn't have big troubles keropi, my SS7 system was happily running a SB Pro 2, AWE64 Gold and a GUS Classic revision 3.4.
GUS at 260,7,7,7,7
AWE64 Gold at A240, I9, D3, P330
SB Pro 2 at A220, I5, D1

They work fine together. Keep in mind that the GUS needs to be initialized, otherwise it's gonna trap port 388 and it will seem your FM is not working. I recommend a singke BAT file to initialize each card you wanna use.

I assume you have read this : http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2012/07/g … -dos-games.html