SOUND BOARDS: REVEAL
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Phone:

N/A (out of business)

Fax:

N/A (out of business)

BBS:

N/A (out of business) -- but 818-762-9894 reportedly works for gettingfiles and possibly third-party support.

e-mail:

N/A (out of business)

Web:

N/A (out of business) -- but http://www.vobis.de/bbs/firmen/reveal has drivers for most or allReveal products, and http://www.execpc.com/~ellingsj/and http://www.netmobile.com/reveal/reveal1.htm have Reveal information.

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The latest reports I've received (as of 10/19/96) indicate that Revealhas finally gone out of business, but they've risen from oblivion (well,a planned takeover by Creative Labs) once before, so this may not be apermanent state. In any event, there are certainly a lot of legacy Revealboards out there, and some may still be available in stores or on the usedmarket. Be aware that Reveal played games with productnames; they might completely change a product without changing the packaging,only altering a revision number which wasn't printed on the box. Thus,exercise some caution when purchasing a Reveal product. In fact, becauseReveal has gone under, I'd advise against buying any Reveal product atthe moment, unless you find an irresistable price -- and then only onsomething with firmer OS/2 support (e.g., InterWave-based board).

Apparently some of the former Reveal tech support people have formed acompany devoted to providing support for various computer products, includingReveal products. They're maintaining the above BBS number, and hope to havean ftp site up eventually.

SC400 ('SoundFX'), rev. 2:

Type:

FM synthesis

Chipset:

Aztech (?)

CD-ROM:

??

Street price:

Discontinued (?)

OS/2 Drivers:

Available, but may be unreliable

Drivers from:

BBS, OS/2 ftp: revsc4r2.zip; ftp.aimnet.com, /pub/users/aztech,http://www.vobis.de/bbs/firmen/reveal

Comments:

This board appears to be a close cousin or identical to anAztech design. I've received conflicting reports on whether therevsc4r2.zip driver works correctly (the readme indicates that it'sa beta-level driver for OS/2 2.1). The Aztech ftp site includesa variety of drivers, some of which may be a better bet (see above,under the Aztech boards).

SC400 ('SoundFX'), rev. 3:

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Type:

FM synthesis

Chipset:

Aztech (?)

CD-ROM:

??

Street price:

Discontinued (?)

OS/2 Drivers:

Uses Aztech NOVA 16 drivers, but unknown reliability

Drivers from:

OS/2 box

Comments:

The OS/2 ftp sites and the Reveal BBS and ftpsite have a text file describing how to set up the board for use withthe Aztech NOVA 16 drivers included with Warp. One net report indicatesthat the Sony CD-ROM drive which is sometimes bundled with this boarddoesn't work under OS/2.

SC400 ('SoundFX'), rev. 4a:

Type:

FM synthesis

Chipset:

Aztech (???)

CD-ROM:

IDE (?), proprietary (???)

Street price:

Discontinued (?)

OS/2 Drivers:

Available, but unknown reliability

Drivers from:

BBS, http://www.vobis.de/bbs/firmen/reveal,OS/2 ftp: revsc4r4a.zip

Comments:

Drivers for this board look suspiciouslyAztech-like, but I know essentially nothing else about it.

Reveal SC400 ('SoundFX'), rev. 4g:

Type:

FM synthesis

Chipset:

CS4248 (??), OPTi 928, Yamaha OPL3 (??)

CD-ROM:

IDE, proprietary (Sony, Panasonic, Mitsumi)

Street price:

~$70

OS/2 Drivers:

Available

Drivers from:

BBS, http://www.vobis.de/bbs/firmen/reveal, OS/2ftp: 929_v2.zip or opti928.zip

Comments:

This is based on the OPTi 928 design; see the section on that chipset.

SC500 ('SoundFX Wave'), rev. 1:

Type:

Wavetable

Chipset:

CS4248, OPTi 929, Yamaha OPL3

CD-ROM:

IDE, proprietary (Sony, Panasonic, Mitsumi)

Street price:

~$130 (Now discontinued)

OS/2 Drivers:

Available, but limited

Drivers from:

BBS, http://www.vobis.de/bbs/firmen/reveal, OS/2 ftp:929_v2.zip or opti928.zip

Comments:

This is an OPTi 929-based board; see that section.

SC500 ('SoundFX Wave'), rev. 3:

Vobis Dico

Type:

Wavetable

Chipset:

CS9233-CQ, CS4112-CS, CS4232-KO

CD-ROM:

?

Street price:

?

OS/2 Drivers:

Available

Drivers from:

http://www.vobis.de/bbs/firmen/reveal

Comments:

This board uses various Crystal Semiconductorchips, and reportedly works with drivers for same. There are also drivers(possibly the same ones) on the site listed above for Reveal drivers.

SC600 ('SoundFX Wave 32'):

Type:

Wavetable

Chipset:

Ensoniq OTTO

CD-ROM:

?

Street price:

~$200 (Now discontinued)

OS/2 Drivers:

Uses Ensoniq Soundscape drivers (?); available but limited

Drivers from:

ftp.ensoniq.com (?)

Comments:

This board is either a re-badging or a close copyof the Ensoniq Soundscape board.

SC800 ('WAVExtreme'):

Type:

Wavetable

Chipset:

AMD InterWave

CD-ROM:

?

Street price:

~$120

OS/2 Drivers:

Available (US$30 shareware)

Drivers from:

http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/sander,http://www.io.org/~rjm

Comments:

This board is based on the AMD InterWave chipset, and as such willwork with Robert Manley's beta-level (as of 11/9/96) 1.20 GUSdrivers. The one report I've had on this board under OS/2 indicatesthat the Manley 1.20 virtual DOS driver (ULTRAVDD.SYS) caused TRAPerrors, but that OS/2 sound worked. I've received contradictoryreports from two former Reveal employees about SIMM sockets on theseboards; one report says that no boards had them, the other says thata few did. For OS/2 use, at present any SC800 without SIMM socketswill not produce MIDI, since the Manley drivers currently requireRAM for this function.

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