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BETA: PUBLIC beta of the Manley drivers 1.20 (Interwave + recording)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (s509475@dutiwy.twi.tudelft.nl)
Fri Oct 4 11:29:05 1996
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Date: 4 Oct 1996 13:22:57 GMT
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October 1st, 1996
Announcing the public beta of the Manley drivers v1.20 (SHAREWARE):
Unofficial Advanced Gravis Ultrasound Drivers ("Manley Drivers")
Copyright 1994-1996 Robert J. Manley and Multi-Player Computer Adventures Inc.
Copyright 1995-1996 Sander van Leeuwen
Copyright 1996 Advanced Gravis Computer Technology Ltd
FEATURES
- basic GUS rev 3.7 and MAX/daughtercard mixer support
(NEW) - Support for AMD's Interwave chip:
(NEW) - GUS PnP (Pro)
(NEW) - Reveal WaveXtreme (Pro)
(NEW) - any other Interwave soundcard
(NEW) - mixer application (UltiMIX)
- 16-bit 44.1Khz stereo wavefile playback
(NEW) - 16-bit 44.1Khz stereo wavefile recording
(NEW) - synthesizer recording on normal GUSes
(NEW) - 16 bits recording is faked on a normal GUS (the hardware
(NEW) can only do 8 bits recording)
(NEW) This was added for the Voice Recognition software in
(NEW) OS/2 Merlin.
(NEW) - Codec recording on GUS Max & Interwave cards
(NEW) - full duplex (simultaneous playback & recording) supported
(NEW) - RTMIDI support (not working properly in this release)
- native GUS MIDI playback with patch caching
- multi-session (many registered streams - one active)
- multiple (2) ACTIVE digital audio streams (only GUS and Mwave?)
- this feature requires running MINSTALL to update MMPM2.INI
(NEW) (GUS Max, GUS PnP and other Interwave cards support only one active
(NEW) wave stream)
- simultaneous DART/Digital Audio/MIDI/MOD (in shared mode = /S)
- Ultrasound specific OS/2 VDD giving DOS sessions:
- reduced interrupt latency
- hardware virtualization
- MIDI port emulation of Roland MPU-401 in UART mode
(allowing WinOS2 to load and use those drivers)
- GM emulation for DOS and Windows sessions under OS/2 with
the goody pack which is only sent to registered users
- absolute lowest system overhead possible
- rigorous testing
- GUS native OS/2 MOD player, UltiMOD
(NEW) - updated to support the new features of AMD's Interwave chip!
Downloadable from:
http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/Henry/Sander
ftp-os2.cdrom.com
hobbes.nmsu.edu
Sander van Leeuwen (s509475@dutiwy.twi.tudelft.nl)
Robert J. Manley (rjm@io.org)
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