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- READ ME - SOUND OVER v1.00
-
- What is "Sound Over"?
-
- Well, it's a drag-and-drop application that takes almost any file and
- converts the data fork into a Mac Sound resource ('snd ' type #2). I wrote
- this in order to convert my sound files from my Apple IIgs over to the Mac
- (over 40 megabytes of files). I was unable to find -ANY- other program to
- do this, other than Sound Mover, which has no batch ability, and doesn't
- really understand Apple IIgs sounds.
-
- The file is converted "in place", and is very fast. The orignal file is
- OVERWRITTEN, so back it up.
-
- Cool things:
-
- (a) will strip ".snd" or " snd" from the end of the filename. "Amen.SND"
- becomes "Amen"
- (b) understands the unoffical binary sound file type/auxtype format for
- the rate (if the file is binary, the auxtype is the playback rate
- times 51.04something).
- (c) understands the Sound Shop format (some of my sounds were in this).
- (d) understands Mac->Apple->Mac run-around (where the resource goes into
- the data fork) and extracts the sound from this. Very nice feature!
- (e) very small program - less than 32k on disk, runs in 256k of memory.
- (f) it should work just fine if the file is on almost any drive - I
- haven't tried it on a file on a IBM or ProDOS disk or over a network,
- but there is no reason why it shouldn't work.
- (g) no specific Mac needed - it runs on both the IIsi and the SE I have
- access to.
- (h) no money required - this is just a "neat program" that I thought others
- would like to have.
-
- Bugs:
-
- 1:The File Dropper shell does not pass the files in a directory; so if you
- drag a disk or a directory folder, it will only get the first file in
- that directory or disk. This is bug in the FD shell, not in SO.
- 2:There is almost no error checking. There -could- be problems if the file
- to be dropped is already open somewhere else, or if the disk is full.
- 3:Apple IIgs sound resource files are not converted - I don't have a GS
- any more, and never had them in this form anyways (send me mail if you
- would like this in here).
- 4:Sound files compressed using ACE are not converted correctly - you get
- mush. I never used ACE (slow and killed the quality), so there.
- 5:It ALWAYS replaces the passed file, unless you cancel (you have to be
- VERY fast).
- 6:The name is strange and the icon is weird, but it works for me.
-
-
- Credits:
-
- Written by Todd "Bearich" Wilson for in-house use at Omnitech Electronics,
- Inc.
- File Dropper Shell 1.1ß2 by Troy Anderson.
-
- Todd Wilson
- c/o
- Omnitech Electronics, Inc.
- 5090 Trabue Road Columbus, Ohio 43228
-
-