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First post, by DJGray

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Greetings all.

My goal is to enable the Gravis Ultrasound emulation ability in DOSBox, and there is a wealth of information here about doing so, but all of it points the the Huggy Bear folders that are not available online. It seems there were concerns with copyright, and I completely understand that.

I have the disks. I started with the original GUS, so I have the five(ish) disk set that came with the GUS, and I later purchased a GravisPNP card that came with two disks. Since I cannot get the Huggy Bear folders for this, can I use the disks I have to enable this emulation in DOSBox? If so, would someone who knows how that's done be willing and graciious enough to outline it in insultingly simple steps for me?

My current status:
DOSBox is installed and working on a RaspberryPi 3B.
I have a mounted C: drive and on that drive I have a GRAVIS folder.
In the GRAVIS folder I have folders for Disks A & B of the PNP card. I ran the installer from B (the DOS install) and it ran to completion but then "looked" for the card and found none.

If I need to, I can copy the old Gravis disks to this folder and can run that install as well/instead.

Is it just configuration from there on out? Or am I coming at this entirely the wrong way?

Thanks for any help you can offer.

Reply 1 of 5, by jmarsh

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If the installation got that far I think it should already have everything needed, just make sure the ultradir setting in DOSBox's config points at the GUS installation directory. All it is really used for is to load instrument patches for midi playback, or running ultramid.exe when a game needs it.

Reply 2 of 5, by DJGray

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Thank you for the quick reply jmarsh. I'll check the DOSBox config settings and make sure the ULTRADIR is set for the correct directory and check back here with an update.

Reply 3 of 5, by DJGray

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Following up. Sorry for the delay. I did get the files in a /GRAVIS/ULTRASND folder and it appear that DOSBOX is finding them.

First test was to install and set up Descent. That's complete, but when I run the sound check utility, you know the "Seven ... Seven ... Seven" where she supposedly goes left, center, right . . . all of those come out in the center. Is that expected with DOSBOX, or have I done something wrong?

Reply 4 of 5, by jmarsh

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That happens with older builds of DOSBox, that had a bug which caused the channels to get interpolated with each other. Try a more recent build like this one: https://yesterplay.net/dosboxece/download/DOSBox%20r4482.7z

(Note that only midi playback requires the GUS software / instrument patches, digital audio playback should always work regardless.)

Reply 5 of 5, by DJGray

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Super!! Thanks. I'll upgrade my DOSBOX and give it a whirl.