wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) (08/02/86)
[[[-- What's my line --]]] Hi, First, Thanks to Carolyn at C-A for posting the nice demos about how to manipulate IFF and ALBM files from AmigaBasic-- that sure saved me much dogwork on a project that I had to get done fast. Looking at the ALBM file format led me to wonder about file formats for sounds. Are there any standards yet? It would be handy if the sound format resembled the video ALBM, except contianed an FMAP chunk instead of CMAP and an SBIT instead of ABIT chuck. I just made that up, FMAP for "filter map" being analogous to CMAP for "color map" and SBIT for the sound byte image being analogous to ABIT for the bit plane data. If anybody knows about the specs for sound files, could you post them. I heard that IFF countains a spec for sound, but have not gotten my IFF docs disk yet. Thanks, Bill Mayhew Division of Basic Medical Sciences Northeastern Ohio Universities' College of Medicine Roootstown, Ohio 44272 USA (216) 325-2511 wtm@neoucom ...!allegra!neoucom!wtm
carolyn@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner) (08/09/86)
In article <237@neoucom.UUCP> wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes: > >If anybody knows about the specs for sound files, could you post >them. I heard that IFF countains a spec for sound, but have not >gotten my IFF docs disk yet. > Latest IFF docs contain specs for musical scores and sampled sounds. Spiral bound IFF docs with diskette containing docs, C source, object, and executables is available from CBM. So far, all examples are graphics related. For music and text, you'll have to work from the specs and the lower level reader and writer routines. If anyone out there has a reasonably short example that demos the writing or reading of IFF musical scores, sound samples, or text, I would love to have it (as would many others). I could add it to future releases of the IFF disk and any other example disk we put together. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To order the IFF docs and disk: Send check for $20 made out to Commodore Business Machines TO CBM 1200 Wilson Drive West Chester, PA. 19380 ATTN: Bernadette Loughery / Software Tech Support Be sure to ask for IFF docs/disk and include your name and address. (We also have Expansion specs / Schematics available for $20) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Carolyn Scheppner -- CBM >>Amiga Technical Support<< UUCP ...{allegra,caip,ihnp4,seismo}!cbmvax!carolyn PHONE 215-431-9180 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=