FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


      Open Sound System V3.8.1 for SCO OSR5 Announced!


LOS ANGELES, CA -December 17, 1997-: 4Front Technologies is announcing 
the availability of Open Sound System(TM) version 3.8.1 for SCO OSR5.

OSS/SCO provides sound card drivers for most popular sound cards 
under SCO's Open Server OS. These drivers support digital audio, MIDI, 
synthesizers and mixers found on sound cards. 

OSS/SCO provides a user-friendly GUI which makes the installation of 
sound drivers and configuration of sound cards very simple! OSS/SCO 
supports over 150 brand name sound cards as well as sound chipsets found 
in laptops and motherboards with integrated audio.

OSS/SCO drivers support automatic sound card detection, Plug-n-Play, 
as well as support for Java Audio. OSS for SCO now supports Ensoniq's
AudioPCI PCI-bus soundcard. 

4Front is also pleased to introduce its SoftOSS technology for SCO OSR5. 
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 provides real-time mixing of up to 32 audio channels. SoftOSS is
ideally suited for game developers and simulator applications. Information 
on SoftOSS can be found at http://www.4front-tech.com/softoss.html

In addition to SoftOSS, 4Front is also introducing the Direct Music API 
which allows the Yamaha FM synthesizer found on most sound cards to be used 
in applications other than MIDI music. By giving direct access to the 
registers, users can use the FM synthesizer in applications such as acoustic 
modeling, signal and tone generation, sound effects and many more.

Finally, OSS/SCO also supports the professional audio hardware like 
the Zefiro Acoustics ZA2 card which can be used with professional studio 
equipment as well as DAT players for recording and playing back multichannel 
audio.

OSS/SCO sound drivers comply with the Open Sound System API spec.
SCO users can visit 4Front's WWW site at http://www.4front-tech.com/sco.html
to download a "free" trial version of OSS/SCO or buy a fully licensed 
version of OSS/SCO for only $40.00. The licensed version of OSS/SCO 
comes with free technical support and free updates to the drivers.
All current OSS/SCO licensees can obtain a free upgrade at the website.

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Open Sound System is a trademark of 4Front Technologies.
Copyright (C) 1996,1997 4Front Technologies, All Rights Reserved.

Contact: Dev Mazumdar (dev@4front-tech.com)
 
4Front Technologies
11698 Montana Avenue, Suite 12
Los Angeles, CA 90049, U.S.A.
 
Tel: (310) 820 7365             E-mail: info@4front-tech.com
Fax: (310) 826 2465             Web: http://www.4front-tech.com
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