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- SoundWAV from New Eden MultiMedia
-
- SoundWAV is a program to select and randomly change Windows 3.1 System
- Sounds. It is fully compatible with sounds cards or Microsoft's PC Speaker
- Driver. SoundWAV operates very simply - using Windows system calls, it
- changes the sound file names assigned in your WIN.INI file. Even the best
- sound clips get boring if you don't change them regularly!
-
- You have the option of setting each of the seven System Sounds to:
- None No sound file assigned.
- Fixed The assigned file will be used, and not changed.
- Random Swap sounds randomly each time Windows is started.
- Alphabetic Swap sounds sequentially each time Windows is started.
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- SoundWAV comes with TEN MEGABYTES of FREE DIGITIZED SOUNDS!
- This zip file includes only three WAV files for error sounds:
- HAL: "It can only be attributable to human error."
- Obi Wan: "Use the force, Luke!"
- Humphrey Bogart: "Think again and think fast!"
- Registered users get 10 MB of samples!!! Everything from HAL's infamous
- "I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that." to Fred Flintstone's "Yabba Dabba Doo."
- We've got it all - even the gunshot(s) that killed JFK! Over 10 MB of sounds
- free to registered users! See the FREE WAV FILES section near the end of
- this document for more information, examples, and ordering instructions.
-
- For more detailed information on SoundWAV and it's operation see the online
- help in SoundWAV. The following is a brief summary of SoundWAV operation.
-
- SOUNDWAV.EXE
- SOUNDWAV.EXE allows you to assign files to sounds, set the directory for
- WAV files, and test play the sounds, much as the Windows 3.1 Control Panel
- does.
- Going beyond the Control Panel though, SoundWAV also lets you set a
- directory for each individual system sound and set whether sounds files are
- to be selected randomly or sequentially (in ascending alphabetic order).
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- AUTOWAV.EXE
- AutoWAV simply swaps the WIN.INI System Sound file names for those sounds
- you have set up (with SOUNDWAV.EXE) as type Random or type Alphabetic.
- AUTOWAV.EXE is the module that you will use most frequently, and once set
- up it will be completely transparent to you.
- To change your system sounds each time you start Windows, just place
- AutoWAV in the Windows STARTUP program group.
- If you spend considerable time in Windows without restarting and don't
- want to wait that long to have your sounds swapped for new ones (Chewbacca
- roaring at every errant keystroke can try your patience after several
- hours), you can launch AutoWAV at any time just by double clicking on its
- icon.
-
- No Overhead!!!
- AutoWAV is not any form of "TSR," nor is it a constantly running Windows
- background task. It loads, looks up information in your WIN.INI file and
- its own SOUNDWAV.INI file, then writes new file names for the system sounds
- back to WIN.INI. Immediately after updating your WIN.INI to the new sounds
- it quits.
- You will never see AutoWAV execute. No time is spent on screen displays or
- anything else that could slow down Windows startup. It runs, rapidly and
- invisibly, then terminates.
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-
- IMPORTANT: SoundWAV requires VBRUN100.DLL, the Visual Basic Dynamic Link
- Library. To save you download time, it is NOT included with
- this copy of SoundWAV. (Although VBRUN100.DLL IS shipped on the
- SoundWAV disks to registered owners). You may download
- VBRUN100.DLL from virtually any Windows oriented BBS.
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- Free WAV files
- Registered owners of SoundWAV receive over 10 MB of high quality WAV files
- at no extra cost. All freshly recorded sound clips! Not a single converted
- file in our inventory!!!
- It'd take you all day (or longer!) to download a sound collection the
- size of this, even if you could find all these great ones. With access fees
- and/or long distance charges you'd pay many times the cost of our program.
- Plus, many digitized sounds found online are of inferior quality. Our files
- are all High Quality
- That's why we provide registered owners with free sound clips. We want to
- ensure that all registered owners have a wide variety of quality sound files
- in order to better appreciate SoundWAV.
- We're talking 10 high density disks here! We're not cheapskates when it
- comes to disk costs - our samples are stored uncompressed in well organized
- librariesstored for easier management by you.
-
- High Quality
- Most WAV files you find on a BBS are translated from older file types and
- often from other computer platforms. The quality is usually poor, if not
- totally unacceptable. Many sound files have been sampled at very slow rates
- and/or were specially processed (reduced from a higher sampling rate) to
- save disk space -- which drastically affects quality.
- If it was originally done on a Sound Blaster it usually means it was
- recorded with a microphone (yuck!), because until very recently there were
- no "Line Input" connections on the Sound Blaster. Even if it's a recent
- recording, that doesn't mean that the person who recorded it knew what they
- were doing.
- That voice of HAL you get from a BBS might have been recorded by a
- teenager holding a cheap mike in front of a tiny little TV speaker. Worse,
- he was probably munching on a bag of Doritos while he recorded -- not to
- mention his dog barking, the toilet flushing upstairs, and the freeway
- nearby.
- Our WAV files are high quality recordings. They were all recorded in
- Windows 3.1 using a Sound Blaster Pro. No microphones!!! Only line input
- direct from a Mitsubishi Hi-Fi HQ VCR, Technics CD, or Technics Cassette
- Deck. The only background noises you hear in our samples are sounds that
- existed in the original media. And, no need to worry about compatibility
- problems with our WAV files, since they were all recorded directly in WAV
- format.
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- Stored Uncompressed For Easy Management.
- WAV files are very compact by nature, and our tests have shown that there
- is little advantage to compressing these files -- we'd save one disk.
- We think that any digitized sound collection eats so much disk space that
- it is best to store WAV files on floppy disks (or have a big hard drive).
- Then, once a week (or whenever you choose) delete the WAV files from your
- hard drive and copy new WAV files from your floppy disk collection.
- We could have been tightwads, and compressed all the WAV files so we could
- save a buck on disk costs, but then you would have to unzip or expand the
- files. We put you first, spent the money for an extra disk, and left the
- files uncompressed so that you can easily manage your sound collection.
- Wide Variety
-
- Includes sound clips from the following categories:
- Science Fiction
- Hollywood
- Sound Effects
- News
- Cartoons
-
- Examples
- Here are just a few of the great Windows 3.1 sound clips you'll get. Use
- them with SoundWAV, or with your own applications.
- HAL: I'm completely operational and all my circuits are functioning perfectly.
- HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
- HAL: Well, I don't think there can be any question about it. It can only be
- attributable to human error.
- Darth Vader: I've been waiting for you, Obi Wan.
- C3P0: It wasn't my fault, sir! Please don't deactivate me!
- Dirty Harry: Go ahead, make my day.
- George Jetson: This is George Jetson, signing off for the ENTIRE day.
- Richard Nixon: I am not a crook.
- Bill Murray: Don't shut it off -- I'm warning ya'!!!
- Dorothy: Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.
- Dorothy clone: Toto, I don't think we're in DOS anymore.
- Dirty Harry: Well, we're not just gonna let you walk outta here.
- Robocop: Your move, creep.
- The Joker: Tell me something, my friend. (loud click of pistol cocking) Have
- you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?
- Neil Armstrong: That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
- Number 5: Malfunction! Need input!!!
- Sound Effects: gunshot, ray gun, bomb, thunder, UFO, police siren,
- toilet flush, applause, tires screeching, train, car horn,
- airplane, car crash, more.
-
- Get all these sounds and many, many more!
-
- Ordering Instructions
- Order now! Only $45. No hidden charges, no tax, no shipping and handling
- charges, no extra cost whatsoever. Order SoundWAV and we'll include your
- 10 MB collection of the best sound clips available AT NO EXTRA COST!
- Available only on high density disks. Please specify 5.25" or 3.5". Call
- or write for more information, or send $45 check or money order (sorry,
- we're just a small company and we can't accept credit cards yet).
-
- New Eden MultiMedia
- 7652 Hampshire Ave
- Minneapolis, MN 55428-1457
- (612)561-2557
- Compuserve 71020,2230
- Prodigy DJPN35A
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- SoundWAV and it's component files and documentation are copyright 1992,
- Edward S. Fink, New Eden MultiMedia
- Sound files are included solely for demonstration purposes.
- We make no claim of ownership or copyright of the sample sound files.
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