Appendix

There is a Macintosh Toolbox function to play sounds that any programmer can use in high level programming languages like Pascal and C.
This function, as described in Inside Macintosh, is SndPlay and the correct syntax is:

Function SndPlay (chan:SndChannelPtr; sndHdl: Handle; async:BOOLEAN)

An example use in MPW Pascal could be:

	sdhndl:=GetNamedResource(‘snd ‘,Sdname);
     	err:=SndPlay(nil,sdhndl,async);

This function plays the ‘snd ‘ resource as specified by the name of the sound. Use ResCopy to get the resource name and ID number.
Refer to Inside Macintosh Volume 5, The Sound Manager.