[comp.sys.mac] Soundmaster 3.0

moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) (10/14/89)

In article <35586@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>>I'm using v1.2, gleaned from the net, on a MacII with system 6.0.2.
>
>The author of Soundmaster released version 3.0 to CompuServe within the last
>week. (no, I don't have it. I like silence.)

I would bloody kill for this.  (And I paid the shareware fees for it,
too...)  If someone would like to mail it to me, I will be happy to post it
to comp.binaries.mac.  And, in a manner typical of the robber barons who
made America What It Is Today, the first person to e-mail it to me will be
e-mailed a reasonably-sized SIT file of digitized sounds *NEVER* *BEFORE*
heard on a Macintosh by anyone by myself -- in other words, stuff from my
180 Meg sound vault of junk I've digitized.  Give me some preferences to
what you want (e.g. Movie quotes, TV show themes, sound effects, Looney
Tunes Characters -- be specific.  I have some particularly nice sound bites
from THE FORBIN PROJECT that I recorded some time ago, that I've never
released anywhere else.)

Boy, I feel just like Ed McMahon...

                        Selections from TOP TEN THINGS THE AMERICANS AND
                        SOVIETS HAVE IN COMMON: 

                             8. Think the French are weenies. 
                             6. Have to search and search to find David Soul
                                albums. 
                             5. Still think Claus Von Bulow is probably
                                guilty. 
                                           -- Late Night with David Letterman

                                                        Jeff

moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) (10/14/89)

In article <11701@fluke.COM> moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) writes:
>In article <35586@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>>The author of Soundmaster released version 3.0 to CompuServe within the last
>>week. (no, I don't have it. I like silence.)
>
>I would bloody kill for this.  (And I paid the shareware fees for it,
>too...)  

...followed by a generous offer of e-mailed sound to the first person to
send me a copy of 3.0.  Well, I've just been informed that the 3.0 on
CompuServe is actually 1.2 in a mis-named SIT file.  So, void void void!

Some good news: I remember reading in an old MacWeek that Preferred
Publishers would be coming out soon with a set of user-interface
modification cdevs, and that one of them would have the ability to play
sounds at certain system events.  It would also skip storing the sounds in
memory, and read them from the disk.  So there is hope...

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Hueras@cup.portal.com (Jon F Hueras) (10/15/89)

I should mention that the "SoundMaster 3.0" mentioned by Chuq has been pulled
from the CompuServe libraries pending a clarification from the author. It
seems several people complained that, despite the name change, it was to
all appearances another copy of 2.1 (the about box version hadn't changed
and no new functionality was in evidence). Although no one in the MacFun
forum mentioned the possibility, it seems to me that this might have been
an attempt to plant a "Trojan Horse". I'll follow-up on this when I hear
more.

Hueras@cup.portal.com (Jon F Hueras) (10/17/89)

When I broached the subject with one of the sysops, he assured me that the
erroneous "3.0" upload was not a Trojan Horse.