Beta drivers for Sound Blaster series cards with Multi-instance Support on OS/2 2.1 (MMPM2 ver 1.1) Nov. 3, 1993 The beta driver provided here support multi-instance: meaning that you can open as many digital audio or MIDI players on the desktop as you want, and play the music sequentially (note: only SB16 supports simul- taneous WAVE and MIDI playback, see note below) as you switch focus from one player to another. Just replace the corresponding driver with the one that supplied here in c:\mmos2 For Sound Blaster: sbd2.sys For Sound Blaster Pro(OPL2): sbpd2.sys For Sound Blaster Pro2(OPL3): sbp2d2.sys Procedures for installing SB16D2.SYS that has simutaneous WAVE and MIDI playback capability Nov. 3, 1993 The driver sb16d2.sys (and the supporting dll sb16.dll) supplied with this zip file allows the simutaneous WAVE and MIDI playback, which means that you can open a WAVE player and a MIDI player and have them playing at the same time: not that you would likely want to hear Madonna and Michael Jackson singing at the same time, but a lot of game programs actually plays MIDI music in the background and WAVE format sound effect for action shots! NOTE: IMPORTANT!!! This feature is only supported on SB16 and NOT for other members of SB series! This is because SB16 has a on-board programmable timer while the others don't, and the timer resolution on OS/2 2.1 (32ms) is not good enough Here is how to add this feature to your system: 1. Load the new sb16d2.sys driver. 2. copy sb16.dll to c:\mmos2\dll 3. Make sure the following lines, in c:\mmos2\mmpm2.ini, are the same as they appear here: in [ibmampmixsb01] section: ... RESOURCEUNITS=2 RESOURCECLASSES=2,1,1 VALIDCOMBINATIONS=1,2,2,1 PARMSTRING=TREBLE=50,BASS=50,PITCH=50,GAIN=70,BALANCE=50,VOL=100,INPUT=LINE,OUTPUT=SPEAKER,RESOURCEDLL=SB16,RCID=4 ... 4. reboot the system. =============================================================================== IMPORTANT: These drivers are provided "AS IS". Your only revenue to get bugs fixed is to complete the following form and either MAIL or FAX it to us. Any other methods of communciation is not applicable. Bug Report: If you encounter any bug, please complete the following form and print it out, and either mail or fax it to us. |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | NAME: | DATE: | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Voice Phone: | FAX: | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | DEVICE DRIVER INFORMATION | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | NAME: | SIZE: | DATE: | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | SYSTEM INFORMATION | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | BRAND/MODEL OF COMPUTER: BUS: | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | CPU: | VIDEO CARD: | PARALLEL: | | SPEED: | BIOS VER: | SERIAL: | | BIOS: | VIDEO CHIP: | EMBEDDED? | | CHIPSET: | VIDEO RAM: | Motherboard? | | RAM: | MAX COLORS: | | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | HD MFG: HD MODEL: HD SIZE: | | CONTROLLER MFG: CONTROLLER MODEL: | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | MOUSE: | OTHER ADD-ON HARDWARE/SOFTWARE: | | TYPE: | | | DOS VER: | | | MEM MGR: | | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | PROBLEM: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | `-----------------------------------------------------------------------------' Mail to: OS/2 Development Group Creative Labs, Inc 1901 McCarthy Blvd Milpitas, CA 95131 Fax#: 408-428-6655 Attention OS/2 Development Group MOST IMPORTANT: Please do NOT contact the Creative Tech Support regarding this driver, and they are not equipped to handle beta drivers. Direct your problems to the OS/2 Development Group using the above form. We do not have the manpower to answer any phone call, but will attempt to varify and correct any bug we receive via the above form. Thank you for your cooperation.