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- SoundFX
- [0m -- This fun software from Vincent Lee adds sound effects to your
- Amiga's basic operations, like mouse-clicks and key presses. To run
- this program, just double-click on the SoundFX icon on this disk. To
- exit SoundFX, adjust the sound volume, or temporarily disable SoundFX,
- press the CONTROL and ESCAPE keys simultaneously. This will bring up
- the SoundFX control panel with its volume control slider, toggle switch
- and quit button.
- The example SoundFX configuration on this disk is meant to show off
- SoundFX and the sounds on disk. Try pressing CONTROL-FUNCTION keys, TAB,
- SPACE, DELETE, RETURN, etc. to check it out. If you don't press any
- keys or mouse buttons or remove or insert any disks for 60 seconds, you
- will be testing SoundFX' Screen Blank mode, so don't worry if it sounds
- like a cricket has crawled into your monitor. This example loads far
- too many samples (about 300k worth!) for even 1mb RAM Amigas to operate
- comfortably. To use SoundFX regularly, you should select only a few
- events and samples to use. Note that SoundFX loads ALL the samples into
- fast RAM when it is run, then copies the relevant sample into chip RAM
- just when it is played. This means that having lots of long samples
- assigned will hog your RAM, and cause your chip RAM to fluctuate. While
- this software is stable and fun, be aware of the burden you are putting
- on your system if you keep it running during memory intensive
- operations.
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- IF YOU HAVE ONLY 512K RAM
- the sample configuration
- on disk will surely cause problems, and some of the samples may not be
- able to play. In this case, you should quit SoundFX before your Amiga
- crashes, and change the startup-file so that fewer samples are loaded.
- Do this by changing some of the sample name entries in the parameter
- file to "NULL".
- SoundFX reads the file called soundfx_startup, to determine which
- sounds to assign to which events, and where these IFF sound files are.
- SoundFX comes configured to access the startup "parameter file" and
- sounds from whichever drawer it is in (currently this disk). To tell
- SoundFX to look for a different parameter file, click on its icon,
- select INFO from the Workbench menu, and enter the name and path for the
- parameter file after the keyword "CONFIGFILE=" (i.e. CONFIGFILE=
- DH1:soundfun/soundfx_barnyard). If SoundFX can't find this file, or none
- is supplied, it looks first for soundfx_startup in the current
- directory, then in the S: directory. The parameter file must have the
- complete path for each sound you want to use, if that sound is not in
- the same directory as SoundFX. If SoundFX is silent, but you can get
- the control panel to come up (hold down control-escape), you should
- check that your Amiga's audio connections are hooked up to your monitor
- or stereo.
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