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- WAVEPLAYER.PRG/TTP are provided to demonstrate how
- to use the DMA sound hardware of the STE and TT
- computers.
-
- The source code provided is not public domain. It
- has been provided to allow you to understand how a
- Microsoft Corporation WAVE file is defined and what
- is needed to play these files on Atari computers.
-
- You may incorporate parts of this code in your own
- programs providing you acknowledge the source of
- those routines via either 1) a comment at the
- beginning of the module that contains the code, or
- 2) an acknowledgement displayed at startup.
-
- To use WAVEPLAYER place it in the desired directory,
- select WAVEPLAYER.PRG. Next select INSTALL APPLICATION
- from the desktop Options menu. Set the file extender
- to WAV, and select OK.
-
- Alternately you may supply a file name as the first
- argument on a command line. Or you may run WAVEPLAYER
- without any arguments, which will cause WAVEPLAYER to
- accept the filenames from standard input. This allows
- the following under the Mark Williams Shell:
-
- ls *.wav | waveplayer
-
- WAVEPLAYER does not understand wildcard characters in
- file names. So the following will produce undesired
- results:
- waveplayer *.wav
-
- Caveats:
- Waveplayer has not been tested with 8 bit stereo wave files.
- Waveplayer has not been tested with 16 bit stereo wave files.
- Waveplayer will work with MiNT and Multi-TOS but multi-tasking
- is suspended while PLAYING (not reading, or resampling) a WAVe
- sample.
-
- If you come across a WAVE file with one of these formats and it
- does work please let me know.
-
- Support:
- If you come across a WAVE file that does not work and it
- is on either GEnie or COMPUSERVE please mail the name of the
- file and the roundtable I can retrieve it from. If the file
- is one of your own please uuencode the file and mail it to
- me at either:
-
- B.GRIER on GEnie
- bjgrier@bnr.ca on internet
-