FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Open Sound System v3.9 for BSD/OS Released. CULVER CITY, CA, May 20, 1998: 4Front Technologies is announcing the availability of Open Sound System(TM)(OSS) version 3.9 for BSD/OS 3.0 from BSD, Inc. for Intel x86 PCs. OSS provides sound card drivers for most popular sound cards under BSD/OS. These drivers support digital audio, MIDI, Synthesizers and mixers found on sound cards. These sound drivers comply with the Open Sound System API specification. OSS provides a user-friendly GUI which makes the installation of sound drivers and configuration of sound cards very simple! OSS supports over 200 brand name sound cards as well as sound chipsets found in laptops and motherboards with integrated audio. There is full support for Creative Labs EMU8000 wavetable synthesizer found on Sound Blaster AWE32 and AWE64 as well as support for Ensoniq's OTTO synthesizer found on SoundScape VIVO cards. OSS drivers support automatic sound card detection, Plug-n-Play support and support for full duplex audio. 4Front is also pleased to introduce its SoftOSS technology for BSD/OS. SoftOSS provides a software based wave-table engine that can render MIDI and MOD music files without requiring any special wave-table hardware. Any 16bit soundcard can now playback MIDI music via wave-table synthesis. SoftOSS also provides real-time mixing of up to 8 stereo audio channels. Now users can play up to 8 simultaneous audio applications. Finally, OSS also supports the professional audio hardware like the SB AWE64/Gold (S/PDIF) and Zefiro Acoustics ZA2 cards which can be used with professional studio equipment and DAT players for recording and playing back multichannel audio. For more information and to download a free 7 day evaluation version, visit 4Front's WWW site at http://www.opensound.com/bsdos.html A fully licensed version of OSS starts at $30.00. The licensed version of OSS comes with free technical support and free updates to the drivers. Existing OSS customers on BSD/OS are entitled to a free upgrade. --- xxx --- All trademarks and copyrights belong to their respective owners. Open Sound System is a trademark of 4Front Technologies. Copyright (C) 1996-1998, 4Front Technologies, All Rights Reserved. Contact: Dev Mazumdar 4Front Technologies 4035 Lafayette Place, Unit F Culver City, CA 90232 USA. Tel: (310) 202 8530 E-mail: info@opensound.com Fax: (310) 202 0486 Web: http://www.opensound.com