91_bickingd@gar.union.edu (Bicking, David) (05/26/90)
>From: tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy) >Date: 20 May 90 21:29:40 GMT >In article <19802@snow-white.udel.EDU> 91_bickingd@gar.union.edu (Bicking, David >) writes: >> I tried to dl some of the sounds found at Xanth and was VERY >> disappointed. The sounds also tended to play twice. Now, using my >> deductive reasoning, I came to the conclusion that my player is not >> able to play stereo sounds >Astounding! When you next connect to xanth.cs.odu.edu, also download >/usenet/comp.binaries.amiga/volume90/util/sound/, which is a player >that works with most of the files in /incoming/amiga/sounds/... > ...tad I also neglected to mention that I saw that program in my search, but it was archived with COMPRESS. Now, since I only have a 1 meg A500, and our node is VMS, that means I can't unpack *.Z files!!!! The good news is that I found a good stereo player on a BBS recently. Does anyone out there have a Compress utility that will work in UNDER one meg???? Perhaps Xanth should start storing their files in a less proprietary format (yeah, right :). -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=- "I don't want to start any Blasphemous Rumors, but I think that God's got a sick sense of humor and when I die I expect to find him laughing" Dave Bicking Single Tasking????? Just say NO!!!! Union College Box 152 91_bickingd@union.bitnet // Schenectady, NY 12308 91_bickingd@gar.union.edu \X/ Amiga -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren) (05/27/90)
91_bickingd@gar.union.edu (Bicking, David) writes: > I also neglected to mention that I saw that program in my search, but >it was archived with COMPRESS. Now, since I only have a 1 meg A500, and our >node is VMS, that means I can't unpack *.Z files!!!! The good news is that I >found a good stereo player on a BBS recently. > Does anyone out there have a Compress utility that will work in UNDER >one meg???? Perhaps Xanth should start storing their files in a less >proprietary format (yeah, right :). compress is hardly proprietary - the sources for it are readily available, and it can be found on all kinds of systems. Perhaps xanth has a copy. It also runs just fine on a 512K Amiga, let alone a 1M machine. Of course, you'd better not be doing anything ELSE on that 512K machine, but it WILL work. -- Mike Farren farren@well.sf.ca.us