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  1.         Beta drivers for Sound Blaster series cards
  2.               with Multi-instance Support
  3.               on OS/2 2.1 (MMPM2 ver 1.1)
  4.                 Nov. 3, 1993
  5.  
  6. The beta driver provided here support multi-instance: meaning that you
  7. can open as many digital audio or MIDI players on the desktop as you
  8. want, and play the music sequentially (note: only SB16 supports simul-
  9. taneous WAVE and MIDI playback, see note below) as you switch focus from
  10. one player to another. Just replace the corresponding driver with the
  11. one that supplied here in c:\mmos2
  12.  
  13. For Sound Blaster:         sbd2.sys
  14. For Sound Blaster Pro(OPL2):    sbpd2.sys
  15. For Sound Blaster Pro2(OPL3):     sbp2d2.sys
  16.  
  17.             Procedures for installing SB16D2.SYS
  18.         that has simutaneous WAVE and MIDI playback capability
  19.                 Nov. 3, 1993
  20.  
  21. The driver sb16d2.sys (and the supporting dll sb16.dll) supplied with
  22. this zip file allows the simutaneous WAVE and MIDI playback, which means that 
  23. you can open a WAVE player and a MIDI player and have them playing at the same 
  24. time: not that you would likely want to hear Madonna and Michael Jackson singing
  25. at the same time, but a lot of game programs actually plays MIDI music in the
  26. background and WAVE format sound effect for action shots!
  27.  
  28. NOTE: IMPORTANT!!!
  29. This feature is only supported on SB16 and NOT for other members of SB series!
  30. This is because SB16 has a on-board programmable timer while the others don't,
  31. and the timer resolution on OS/2 2.1 (32ms) is not good enough
  32.  
  33. Here is how to add this feature to your system:
  34. 1. Load the new sb16d2.sys driver.
  35. 2. copy sb16.dll to c:\mmos2\dll
  36. 3. Make sure the following lines, in c:\mmos2\mmpm2.ini, are the same as they
  37.    appear here: 
  38.  
  39.   in [ibmampmixsb01] section:
  40.   ...
  41.   RESOURCEUNITS=2
  42.   RESOURCECLASSES=2,1,1
  43.   VALIDCOMBINATIONS=1,2,2,1
  44.   PARMSTRING=TREBLE=50,BASS=50,PITCH=50,GAIN=70,BALANCE=50,VOL=100,INPUT=LINE,OUTPUT=SPEAKER,RESOURCEDLL=SB16,RCID=4
  45.   ...
  46. 4. reboot the system.
  47.  
  48. ===============================================================================
  49.  
  50. IMPORTANT:
  51.  
  52. These drivers are provided "AS IS". Your only revenue to get bugs fixed is to
  53. complete the following form and either MAIL or FAX it to us.  Any other
  54. methods of communciation is not applicable.
  55.  
  56.  
  57. Bug Report:
  58.  
  59. If you encounter any bug, please complete the following form and print
  60. it out, and either mail or fax it to us.
  61.  
  62. |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  63. | NAME:                                                  | DATE:              |
  64. |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  65. | Voice Phone:                              | FAX:                            |
  66. |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| 
  67. | DEVICE DRIVER INFORMATION                                                   |
  68. |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| 
  69. | NAME:                         | SIZE:                   | DATE:             |
  70. |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  71. | SYSTEM INFORMATION                                                          |
  72. |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  73. | BRAND/MODEL OF COMPUTER:                         BUS:                       |
  74. |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  75. |     CPU:            | VIDEO CARD:                           | PARALLEL:     |
  76. |   SPEED:            |   BIOS VER:                           | SERIAL:       |
  77. |    BIOS:            | VIDEO CHIP:                           | EMBEDDED?     |
  78. | CHIPSET:            |  VIDEO RAM:                           | Motherboard?  |
  79. |     RAM:            | MAX COLORS:                           |               |
  80. |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  81. |  HD MFG:                        HD MODEL:                HD SIZE:           |
  82. |  CONTROLLER MFG:                       CONTROLLER MODEL:                    |
  83. |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  84. |   MOUSE:                      | OTHER ADD-ON HARDWARE/SOFTWARE:             |
  85. |    TYPE:                      |                                             |
  86. | DOS VER:                      |                                             |
  87. | MEM MGR:                      |                                             |
  88. |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  89. | PROBLEM:                                                                    |
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  112. `-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'
  113.  
  114. Mail to: OS/2 Development Group
  115.      Creative Labs, Inc
  116.      1901 McCarthy Blvd
  117.      Milpitas, CA 95131
  118.  
  119. Fax#: 408-428-6655
  120.       Attention OS/2 Development Group
  121.  
  122.  
  123. MOST IMPORTANT:
  124.  
  125. Please do NOT contact the Creative Tech Support regarding this driver, and
  126. they are not equipped to handle beta drivers.  Direct your problems to the 
  127. OS/2 Development Group using the above form.  We do not have the manpower
  128. to answer any phone call, but will attempt to varify and correct any bug 
  129. we receive via the above form.
  130.  
  131. Thank you for your cooperation.
  132.