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Miles Sound System

Software entity

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213
games
16
platforms

Sound middleware originally by Miles Design to overcome the differences in soundcards in the old DOS days. Maintained by RAD Game Tools since 1995.

Notable people involved: Rhianna Pratchett, Michael Hoge, Stefan Nyul, Kai Rosenkranz and Yohei Takashima

Alternate name: MSS

PC games usually advertize the MSS, but one definite way of detecting it is the presence of mss32.dll in at least Windows games.

Cross-platform support:
* DOS
* Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP and Vista (officially all versions of Windows, both 32 and 64 bit)
* Mac OS 8 and 9, Mac OS X, iPhone
* Linux
* Android
* Xbox 360, Xbox One
* X360
* PS2, PS3, PSP, PS Vita, PS4
* Wii, Wii U, 3DS

Previously supported:
* Xbox


Licensing MSS includes full source code.

List of games with MSS (according to RAD):
www.radgametools.com/mssgames.htm#games

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Parent group

Audio middleware

Games by year

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The first Miles Sound System video game was released on April 1992.

Activision, Electronic Arts and Aspyr Media published most of these games.

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Platforms

Windows143
MS-DOS18
Mac OS X16
Linux13
Mac OS Classic6
X3604
PS33
PS22
PS1
N641
Xbox1
Saturn1
Win3.11
GameCube1
BeOS1
Pandora1

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