userDBUG@ualtamts.BITNET (Dan Berry) (06/06/89)
>emerrill@pro-carolina.UUCP (Eric Merrill) wrote: >Does anyone know of a conversion program that would let me use >Mac sounds on my GS? Well, I don't know of any program other than the one that I wrote a few months ago. The principle behind it, however, is extremely simple. I've only been using a sound file on the Macs known as the FSSD-type -- that is, the Fractal Software Sound Digitizer type (or compatible). The sound files consists of only the waveform data needed for the Mac (or the GS for that matter). --- All I did was go and use the Apple File Transfer utility to move the sounds from the Mac to ProDOS, wrote (actually, I rewrote an older M/L sound routine I did) a program to put it into the Sound chip's dedicated RAM and play the waveform. There's just one catch -- the Mac has different speeds (11 KHz, 22 KHz, 7.4 KHz & another one I forgot about) in which it plays back these waves. --- But, by adjusting the GS' DOC chip (namely the 'resolution' and 'frequency' parameters) and having it play an oscillator in one- shot mode, it will manage it quite well. In fact, once I got the one to go it was just a few lines more before I got a rather haunting 30 oscillators going at different frequencies akin to something alien. --- When I get back home I'll have to remember to post my version (I'm at work). But there's one more thing: I've really been having a rough time tracking down a workable version of BINSCII on a floppy. Could someone favor me and send a copy on a 5.25" via land mail to 10535 - 52 Street, Edmonton Alberta, zip code T6A 2G7 ?? It would be tremendously appreciated! ===================== "You know what I hate? It's people that act like they're God when I know that's not the reason why I put them down here..." =====================