[WarpCast] News on generic WIN/OS2 driver and in the future maybe DOS! - 1/05/00 |
PMView: The ultimate in image viewing Major update coming soon! Watch http://www.pmview.com/ for details ********************************************************************* Source: Roderick Klein (rwklein@wxs.nl) Moderator: Trevor Smith (trevor@haligonian.com) ------------------------------------------------------- Why this long subject line? At the moment you may call this driver the generic WIN-OS/2 driver simply because DOS support is not sure yet! It looks good however. Have you only got sound in normal OS/2 (on your OS/2 Desktop) but is WIN-OS/2 silent? This driver will be your solution (in many cases). It may not be so good as a native driver from the manufactor but the difference in performance is quite small. It does not matter if you have a MCA, PCI, ISA or PCMCIA sound card, in many cases it will work! For more info how it works (and download it!) look on: http://home.wxs.nl/~rwklein/index.htm or http://www.mensys.nl/rwklein/ when you can't view the other page. At this moment WAVE in and WAVE out under WIN-OS/2 is working quite well and MIDI support is getting along quite well. John is already able to play a MIDI file. There MAY be a release this month. After WIN-OS/2 support works well, Soundblaster support will added (it is quite a job!). If this will work is not certain! The driver that you can now download from my site will not crash your system but it has a small bug! When you have video for Windows installed WIN-OS/2 will start up with an error in winshld.exe. If this happens with all OS/2 configurations is not known. The problem can be solved by placing a ; in front of this line: "WaveMapper=MSACM.DRV" in your system.ini. In the next release this will be fixed (we hope). Until now about 650 people have downloaded the driver from my site. But not many people have sent their comments! We wan't to hear from you! Send your positive comment, suggestions or problems to: rwklein@mensys.nl To put one thing straigt, I (Roderick Klein) did not do any programming, John Gow did (jag12@leicester.ac.uk). Oh yes, this driver is freeware. ------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe, unsubscribe, or for more information on WarpCast, visit: http://www.warpcast.com/ -------------------------------------------------------