[WarpCast] News on generic WIN/OS2 driver and in the future maybe DOS! - 1/05/00




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Source: Roderick Klein (rwklein@wxs.nl)
Moderator: Trevor Smith (trevor@haligonian.com)
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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.
 
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