jiro@heights.cit.cornell.edu (01/21/90)
After about a whole day of conversions, I've managed to convert
many of the sumex-aim's macintosh sound files over to NeXT's .snd
format. (Many thanks to hoodr@csus.edu for his mac2snd program and
advice).
I was thinking of posting them to the archives, but since they
take up four megabytes (uncompressed), I thought I'd poll for how
many people wanted them there. I could alternately mail them to
people....
Unfortunately, some files didn't convert well, others were not
that good. Here is a list of the sound files I have:
20thCentury.snd "twentieth century fox opening fanfare"
Afterburner.snd "sounds like an afterburner..."
Berrp.snd "you guess..."
BreakingGlass.snd "The sound of breaking glass"
Bullwinkle.snd "snippets of bullwinkle"
EvilLaugh.snd "A not so evil laugh"
Explosion.snd "boom"
Hal02,03,04,06,07,09,10,20.snd "Hal's voice from 2001, various"
MaxHeadroom.snd "Max Headroom"
Monty_StopIt.snd "monty python"
Monty_YourNicked.snd """"
Reagan.snd "I won't tell the american people lies...."
Rooster.snd My own recording from Sgt. Pepper's club
Underdog.snd "Underdog!"
Since the NeXT uses 16bit and the Mac 8 bit, some of the recordings
sound a bit strange... Like I said, this is not the definitive translation
of the sumex-aim library. So please tell me if and where you would like
them. If Jasmer and Gerrit would also comment.....
- Jiro Nakamura -
ps. these make GREAT alarm sounds for Cassandra. Especially Hal: "What
do you think you are doing, DAVE?"
jasmerb@mist.cs.orst.edu (Bryce Jasmer) (01/22/90)
In article <1990Jan20.183243.3605@heights.cit.cornell.edu> jiro@heights.cit.cornell.edu writes: > I was thinking of posting them to the archives, but since they >take up four megabytes (uncompressed), I thought I'd poll for how >many people wanted them there. I could alternately mail them to >people.... As I am the one who maintains the OSU (cs.orst.edu) archives, I would have to vote no on that one. We can't spare tons of space right now for sounds. I would like, however, to build up a collection of beep quality sounds (ie *short* sounds to be used for the system beep). If anyone has any nifty ones, be sure and send them to the cs.orst.edu archives and maybe the others depending on what they want to allow on their archives. And for those who want to add sounds and don't know how: 1) you can change your own sound from the Preferences application. Or, 2) you can change the default (system wide) sound by doing this: host> su host> ln -s /NextLibrary/Sounds/NewSound.snd /NextLibrary/Sounds/SystemBeep.snd Bryce jasmerb@cs.orst.edu
gerrit@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Gerrit) (01/25/90)
In article <1990Jan20.183243.3605@heights.cit.cornell.edu>
jiro@heights.cit.cornell.edu asks if we can put his 4 meg of converted
sound files on the archives:
About a month ago, the entire NeXT archives @ cc.purdue.edu were 4 megs.
While I'd love to double that usage, I'd prefer to do it with more "useful"
software (no, I'm not saying that sound files are not useful, but I could
probably slap something over 500 Meg of sound files out there just with local
people's sound files. Cc.purdue.edu has about 5 Meg free in the ftp
partition right now, and I don't have time at the moment to make more
space.
However, the email archives are currently running off the NeXT on my desk
and maintain the source for the NeXT archives on cc.purdue.edu. I can
offer to *temporarily* store the files there, and I may be able to do the
same for other people with large distributions which would be inefficient
to email by hand. However, when NeXT releases source, I probably won't be
able to provide this "extra" service.
If you are interested in using this for a short-term distribution of
pictures or sound files (not to exceed about 20 Meg or so right now), send
email to next-archive@cc.purdue.edu and we can set something up.
gerrit