BocaSoft Announcement

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Bill Stewart or Zan Oliphant BocaSoft Boca Raton, FL 33431 (407)392-7743 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NEW SOFTWARE FIRM MAKES NOISY DEBUT
BOCA RATON - Two former IBM software contractors, Zan Oliphant and Bill Stewart have opened their own software development company, BocaSoft.

Open only since January, the new company already has its first product ready to ship. Called System Sounds for OS/2, the product has five main features, all centering around its ability to associate an audio file (sound) to a pre-defined system event. For example, using an audio sound to respond to a help request with, "Standby, starting help!" Or simply using sounds to signal the opening and closing of folders, system startup and shutdown and the drag and drop of icons. One interesting and noisy program twist: the capability of associating sounds to mouse buttons or even mouse movement.

Another system feature is the ability to link audio to any key on the keyboard. The feature could prove to be a boon to avid game players interested in spicing things up by adding unusual sounds to the appropriate keys or the operators of specialized programs benefiting from audio feedback.

System Sounds for OS/2 has over 1 megabyte of sound effects in Microsoft audio format including a full range of popular effects from Prosonus.

Sound recordings are possible in a variety of formats including 11 kHz, 22 kHz, 44 kHz, 8 bit, 16 bit, as well as stereo or mono recording.

"OS/2 is the operating system of choice for state-of-the-art multimedia applications," said Bill Stewart, BocaSoft co-founder. "We're writing programs to take advantage of its 32 bit power," he added.

The software requires the OS/2 multi-media extension set, or MMPM/2, which will be packaged with IBM's upcoming release of OS/2 (2.1). BocaSoft's System Sounds for OS/2 is available now for OS/2 (2.1) beta users.

OS/2 is a registered trademark of IBM Corporation.