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                                    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.