dalel@servio.UUCP (Dale LaFountain) (08/11/90)
I posted an article a few days ago asking specifics about using sound files in HFS (Mac) format on my GS. As promised, here is my summary and findings: Someone mentioned using Resource Spy. My problem with that application is that I couldn't get it to recognize my HFS formatted disk. I logged through all my HD partitions (using the Volume button in the dialog) and it skipped right over my 3.5, as if it didn't recognize its format. And even if I had been able to read the disk, it appeared from the docs that I could only convert fonts and icon files anyway. If someone has used this program to successfully transfer sounds to your GS, then please fill me in. I have another program called Mac.Trans.GS. I'm not sure if I have the newest version or not, but this one only translates MFS (400k disks) files, which was no help at all, to me at least. So I gave up on that one, too. Enter HFSLink Beta 3. This program worked very smoothly for me. The only problem was that it didn't recognize sound resource files on the Mac. For those who don't know, sound resources are a single file which contains multiple sounds for use with system applications, etc. The sounds that I got (from a Mac IIcx here at work) were all stuck in one big file called 11khz sounds. To separate these sounds into individual files, I used a shareware application called Sound Mover (it was the default application when I double clicked on the file). It allows you to play and move sound files around, including into other resource and data files. What you want to do is create a new data file (which can only hold one sound) for each sound you intend to convert, name it something appropriate to the sound you are storing there, and then move each sound from the resource to the data file. It's kind of a pain, but it works better than trying to convert one 684k file.:-) When you enter HFSLink the default file type is set to binary, which is correct for these sound files, and I'm assuming the Mac uses a similar auxtype setting for the playback speed; the converted sounds played back at the correct speed when loaded into Sound Studio. Also, when the files are converted to Prodos, a small resource file is made to accompany each data file. These are unneeded for sound purposes and may be deleted at your convenience. If anyone has any specific questions, please don't hesitate to write. Happy conversions, Dale LaFountain dalel@servio.SLC.COM