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- PLAY-Handler Docu
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- Attention: This program is shareware. It may be freely copied and
- distributed as long as there is no charge for anything else than reasonable
- media costs. Besides, the following files have to be left unchanged and
- together: play-handler.dok, play-handler.doc, play-handler, PLAY,
- PLAY.info, mountlist.play, install
- I am _not_ responsible for any harm to your enviroment, espescially to your
- computer or hifi-rack, that might occur through the use of this software.
- It may also not included as an extra to commercial products without written
- permission.
-
- This version is limited to only one open. After closing the device it will
- remove itself completly from memory, so that you have to mount it again for
- another use.
- Those who like this program as much as to get the full version please send
- me 10DM. Those who want it shipped on disk, add 5DM for disk, envelope and
- postage. (alltogether 15DM). Alternativly you can send me a disk and
- adressed and prepaid envelope, then it is left to 10DM. If you have an
- e-mail adresse I can mail it to you (uuencoded, tarred and gzipped).
- I accept cash (of course) (no coins please) and eurocheques. All other will
- cost me more for cashing than it is worth.
-
- I can be reached at the following address:
-
- Joerg Dorchain
- Harspergerflur 23
- D-66740 Saarlouis
- Germany
- Tel.:+49/6831/892656 (occasionally)
-
- E-Mail: dorchain@mpi-sb.mpg.de
-
-
- Now, after that legal stuff for the interesting part.
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- Installation: copy play-handler to your l: directory and PLAY and PLAY.info
- to devs:dosdrivers respectly append mountlist.play to your devs:mountlist.
- Now you can start it with mount play:. Alternativly you can use the
- install-sript.
-
- Use: play: offers an interface to the audio.device. You open it, write a
- sample (raw or iff 8svx) into it and you hear it. (Caution: copy uses upto
- your MaxTransfer amount of memory. But you can use join which is more
- memory-friendly.) If you feed play: with too small pieces (<256 bytes) you
- will hear some sounds of silence because play doesn't get it's data fast
- enough. Samples will be played with double-buffering, so you hear the sound
- continuously if you put it to play without interrupt. Play: has an internal
- buffer for the sample beeing played which can be changed in size by the
- addbuffers command.
- The behaviour of play: is controlled by the name you open it.
- play: opens a mono channelleft to default sampling rate (8192) for raw
- samples. (iff samples will be played at thier stored rate)
- play:s plays a sample in stereo. (Both channels the same)
- play:l plays only on left channels
- play:r plays only on right channels
- play:<number> plays the sample at <number> samples per second.
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- Both can be combined with the character before the number. play:s10000 will
- play the sample in stereo with 10000 samples per second. Caution: the
- sampling rate will not be checked for sense, so extreme values will produce
- strange results. play: can be open more often, as long as there is enough
- memory and sound channels.
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- Play: should work with all OS-Version. (tested with V3.0)
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- Bugs, improvements or anything else are welcome.
- Have fun when trying it out!
-
- Joerg
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