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Boot Sound
©1993 Lee Offenberger
Cool Wave Computing
Boot sound is a very simple concept. When you boot your
machine, when the BOOT_SND.PRG file in your AUTO folder, it will
play the sampled sounds you tell it to.
Operation is quite easy. Just run BOOTSNDM.PRG. This is
the Boot Sound Manager. You simply locate a audio sample that
you wish to have played during your boot-up, and select it with
the file selector provided.
Once selected, you will have the option of hearing the sound
played at the various sample rates available on the STE. Yes,
this does mean that Boot Sound will only operate on an STE
properly. I may eventually put sound code in it for the ST, but
it is not likely. This was a simple project for me to work with
playing sound and I figured I'd throw this together as an
example.
After having the sound played, you will be asked to indicate
which sample rate to play the sound at during playback.
You may select as many sounds as you want played back to
back. BOOT_SND.PRG will play them all in a row at boot-up.
Please do not delete the BOOT_SND.DAT file that will be created
in your root directory of your boot drive. Deleting it will not
cause BOOT_SND.PRG to crash during boot-up, but it will not have
any sounds to play, so it will be kind of boring.
BOOT_SND.PRG and BOOTSNDM.PRG were written in GFA BASIC
3.5e, and use the DMA to play the sound. The result is a speed-
independent sound replay for the STE/Mega STE series. Couldn't
tell you if it will work on a Falcon or not, as I will doubtfully
have one to test it on.
That's about it for this program. Look for my new project,
CWAC 3.0. That stands for Cool Wave Archive Converter. What it
will do for you is automate converting from one archive format to
another. It will be an excellent tool for SysOps who wish to
have this done automatically each night, or for the normal user
who downloads, ARC, LZH, ZIP, and ZOO files and wants them all in
the same format. CWAC will now convert any set of files into
archives, so if you want to have all *.TXT files converted into
single archives, you can now do it! You can also have annoying
BBS advertisements removed during the conversion, and put in your
own files if you wish. For more information, keep looking for
CWAC3_00.LZH on a BBS near you.
If you have any questions on the operation of this program,
or want information on CWAC, you can call me at Cool Wave
Computing (614)870-1220 9am-9pm EST.