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- Fresh from the author at IBM:
-
- here come the SYSTEM TUNES for those without a Sound Card...
-
- - Clemens
-
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-
- SYSTEM TUNES
- ------------
-
- I as a fan of the OS/2 System Sounds feature included with OS/2 2.1 via
- MMPM/2 1.1, I wanted to associate sounds to OS/2 on my ThinkPad. I had
- heard that you could use the OS/2 Tune Editor (part of PM Diary for you
- long time OS/2 users) in the Productivity Folder to create system sounds
- if you didn't have a sound card. After failed attempts getting it to
- work, one of the Boca mutimedia folks told me that the .$$A files created
- by the tune editor contained multiple tunes in one file. He continued to
- tell me that the MMPM/2 System Sounds feature could only handle the file
- if all but one of the tunes in the file were removed. Lo and behold, it
- worked.....so I have made these tunes (I call them System Tunes) available
- for others who do not have a sound card, use a laptop, and have decided
- that the SPKRDD package takes up too much CPU for
- their use. (Take a look at SPKRDD --- the Speaker driver for OS/2 if you have not looked at
- it--it allows WAV files to be played over your PC speaker, requiring NO
- SOUND CARD!
-
- So here they are...ENJOY!
-
-
- The SYSTUNES.EXE file unpacks into the following sound files:
-
- Alarm Clock Clock.$$A
- Begin Drag Drag.$$A
- Closing window (Animated) Close.$$A
- End Drag Drop.$$A
- Error Error.$$A
- Information Info.$$A
- Lockup Lockup.$$A
- Opening Window (Animated) Open.$$A
- Printer Error Printer.$$A
- Shred Shred.$$A
- System shutdown Shutdown.$$A
- System startup Startup.$$A
- Warning Warning.$$A
-
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-
- Instructions These instructions will unpack from the SYSTUNES.EXE file
- ------------ as well.
-
- Advanced Users with OS/2 2.1, MMPM/2 and System Sounds:
-
- Unpack SYSTUNES.EXE where the sound files are kept, usually
- \MMOS2\Sound Bites (or \MMOS2\SOUNDS) on the drive where OS/2 2.1 was
- installed. Associate tunes to events as you would WAV files in the
- Sound object.
-
- Other Workplace Shell Users:
-
- Download SYSTUNES.ZIP (it contains SYSTUNES.EXE) and drag SYSTUNES.EXE into the Sound Bites
- (or Sounds) folder located in the Multimedia folder on the OS/2 2.1 Desktop.
- (If you do not see the Sound Bites (or Sounds) folder, make a shadow from
- the drive folder where you installed MMPM/2. There should be a Sound Bites
- (or Sounds) folder under MMOS2 in the tree view of the Drive folder.) With
- the Sound Bites (or Sounds) folder open, double-click on the SYSTUNES.EXE
- object. A window will open, and the file will automatically unpack into the
- various tunes. Shred the SYSTUNES.EXE object after you see the new tune
- objects with the extension .$$A appear in the Sounds folder. Close the Sound
- Bites (or Sounds) folder. Use the Sound object in the Multimedia folder (or
- System Setup folder) to associate tunes to events.
-
- Command Line Users:
-
- Learn Workplace Shell--you should know better! Copy SYSTUNES.EXE to \MMOS2\Sound Bites (or \MMOS2\SOUNDS) subdirectory.
- Change to that subdirectory, type SYSTUNES, and press enter to unpack tunes.
- Then erase SYSTUNES.EXE, goto the Workplace Shell and open the Sound object
- in the Multimedia folder (or System Setup folder) to associate tunes to events.
-
-
- More info on using System Sounds can be found in the books that come with
- OS/2 2.1.
-
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-
- System Requirements:
- --------------------
-
- 1. OS/2 2.1 with MMPM/2 1.1 installed
-
- If you have not done this and you do not have a sound card, just
- install the Software Motion Video option. This will install the
- System Sounds feature, and let you play with the software video which
- also requires no special hardware to see movies (sound card required
- only to hear audio that accompanies video.) See OS/2 2.1 documentation
- for more assistance.
-
- 2. Tune Editor (part of Personal Productivity option)
-
- If you did a full install of OS/2 2.1, you will find this in the
- Productivity folder located initially in the System Setup folder.
-
- If you did a selective install, and did not install the Tune Editor,
- have your OS/2 2.1 diskettes ready and do the following:
-
- Open Selective Install (Icon located in the System Setup folder. Just
- select System Setup from the Desktop pop-up menu.) Select OK on the
- first window that pops up (do not change anything there). On the next
- window that opens, check the box next to Tools and Games, click on the
- More... button on the same line, then check the box next to Personal
- Productivity. Select OK (the window will close) and click the Install
- button at the bottom. Follow the instructions from there.
-
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-
- Updates
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-
- I plan to add tunes in the future as time allows.
-
-
- Edward S. Hasicka
- IBM Personal Software Products
- New York, NY
-
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