Aureal A3D Central - News Groups Post

Well it's been about a year or so since I've logged onto the newsgroups. I
just wanted to drop in to let you all know that Aureal has posted a list of
mirror sites on the drivers page. The direct URL for this page is:

http://www.a3d.com/html/download/drivers/

We are looking for additional mirrors world-wide to host these files for the
next week or so. If you are interested, and have a fast server outside the
US, please contact: info@Aureal.com.

In other news: in the next week or so, Aureal will be putting up a web page
form optimized to allow end-users to post bug reports and problems. This
will help us classify and correct bugs much faster than filtering them
through our customers (like Diamond, Turtle Beach, Dell, etc.). Don't
expect a response to every problem report just yet.

About 1 month after this web page goes live, Aureal and a partner will be
opening toll-free Technical Support and Customer Service hotlines. At that
time, we will also begin providing many other forms of technical support
(via email, web, ftp, fax, etc.). While you cannot expect us to be experts
at the things that Diamond, Turtle Beach, or other customers, have added on
top of Vortex that is specific to their products, we will be able to answer
Vortex and A3D related questions.

In the meantime, please remember: we currently do not have an official
representative in the newsgroups and this is not the best place to place a
"bug report." Until this new form goes live, address any problems you may
encounter with the 2035 drivers to info@Aureal.com

We hope that this new project (and some other very interesting things that
we will announce over the next couple of months) will help avoid the delay
in getting bug-fixes and new features to end-users in the future. Many
exciting new features are being added to Vortex and A3D, and many new
releases are forthcoming.

A partial explanation for the delays in the 2035 drivers is the amount of
work we have put in on the upcoming Windows 2000 and NT 4.0 drivers, as well
as the concurrent development of many new Windows 9x features.

Some major changes are afoot at Aureal and you'll begin to see them this
September. Keep your eyes on the 3D sound web sites and in the gaming
magazines: you'll see what I mean.

Skip McIIvaine from Aureal Inc