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- DSound V1.31
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- DSound is Copyright 1991-1993 by Dave Schreiber, All Rights Reserved.
- This program is freely distributable, but may not be sold (although a small
- fee for copying, media, etc. may be charged).
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- DSound is utility I whipped together to play 8SVX sound samples
- directly off a hard drive. While it only takes up a small amount of chip
- RAM, it can play samples of unlimited size off a hard drive (it doesn't
- work to well with floppies however). Currently, it cannot play compressed
- sound files.
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- DSound can only be used from the hard drive. To use DSound, type
- "DSound [flags] <filename>" (without the quotes), where <filename> is the
- name of the file that you want to play, and [flags] are any of the flags
- listed below under "Usage." To stop DSound before a sample is finished
- playing, either click on the close gadget in the DSound window (which is
- displayed while DSound is playing a sound sample, unless the '-w' flag is
- used), press CTRL-C in the Shell window from which DSound was started, or
- type "break <clinum>", where <clinum> is the number of the Shell window
- that DSound is running in.
-
- Usage:
- dsound [-l][-r][-2][-f][-m][-o][-w][-n][-t]
- [-s<speed>][-v<volume>][-b<bufsize>] file
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- Where the flags are defined as such:
- -l -- Play the sample using the left speaker
- -r -- Play the sample using the right speaker
- -2 -- Play the sample using both speakers
- -f -- Shut off the low-pass filter
- -m -- Load the entire sample into memory
- -o -- Play the sample continuously (loop)
- -w -- Do not open the DSound window
- -n -- Do not show the sample name in the window
- -t -- Do not show the sample times in the window
- -s<speed> -- Play the sample at the given speed (samples/sec)
- -v<volume> -- Play the sample at the given volume (0-64)
- -b<bufsize> -- Use a buffer of size <bufsize> (default is 30K)
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- If you don't specify any flags, the defaults are to play the sound out of
- the first available speaker, with the filter on, at the speed and volume
- specified in the soundfile.
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- I've included the source for DSound. To compile (using SAS/C V6) type:
- smake
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- If you have any questions, comments, etc. regarding DSound, you can get in
- touch with me at:
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- Dave Schreiber
- 1234 Collins Lane
- San Jose, CA 95129-4208
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- e-mail: davids@cse.ucsc.edu
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- Note: This version of DSound was modified by Al Villarica. It has a dumb
- ARexx port which allows it to be aborted from an ARexx script.
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