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DRIVER: Status of the Manley Ultrasound (and Interwave) MMPM/2 drivers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sander van Leeuwen)
Mon Aug 26 14:08:01 1996
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 15 Aug 1996 17:32:58 GMT
From: s509475@dutiwy.twi.tudelft.nl (Sander van Leeuwen)
Reply-To: s509475@dutiwy.twi.tudelft.nl (Sander van Leeuwen)
Reply-to: s509475@dutiwy.twi.tudelft.nl (Sander van Leeuwen)
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Since many of you ask Robert Manley and myself when the next version of the
Manley drivers will be released, we've decided to post a small status report.
The next version (1.2) will have the following new features:
(INT = UltraSound PnP and other Interwave based soundcards,
MAX = UltraSound Max, GUS = other Ultrasound models)
- proper init of PnP hardware (INT)
- 44.1 Khz playback of up to 32 voices (INT)
- support for memory configurations up to 16 MB (INT)
and non-standard configurations (i.e. 4.5 & 8.5 MB)
- enhanced ultimod support (INT)
(0) - full duplex (recording & playback simultaneously) (INT,MAX)
(1) - hardware compression/decompression (ADPCM, Ulaw & Alaw) (INT,MAX)
(2) - ROM support (INT)
(3) - Warp Mixer support (ALL)
- two active streams (playback & record) (INT,MAX)
- three active streams (2x playback & record) (GUS)
(4) - fake 16 bits recording (for VTD in Merlin) (GUS)
0 -> recording on normal GUSes doesn't work yet since my old GUS broke down;
will take a little while to fix this full duplex only works with two DMA
channels
1 -> almost done (basically MMPM/2 only needs to be informed the driver
is capable of doing this)
2 -> not done, might not make it in this version
3 -> not done, depends on whether Warp Mixer will be included in Merlin (IBM?)
4 -> not done, easy to add once recording on normal GUSes is working
Other than these things some bugs still needs fixing.
I won't be accepting any more beta testers, so don't bother mailing me.
However, there are a few beta slots left for normal GUS owners (since my card
is defect), GUS daughterboards owners and people with an Interwave based card
(not manufactured by Gravis).
I can't really say when version 1.2 will be ready, but definitely before
Merlin is released.
Sander van Leeuwen & Robert Manley
PS: Yes, voice recognition in Merlin works with this beta driver (at least
on my GUS PnP)
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