komatsu@alcor.usc.edu (-----> Dave) (12/19/90)
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The
Sound
Site
Newsletter
Volume 1 #3 December 18, 1990 (L)
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IMPORTANT NOTICE:
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I will be returning to Hawaii for Christmas vacation and thus since I
don't have a modem at home there will be a slight delay in processing
mail. If you have added to the list before December 17th you should
be on this list. If you are not then the address you sent bounced.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everybody out there.
-----> Dave
IMPORTANT NOTICE 2:
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The staff at kfps-roble6-dynamic.stanford.edu (Rogue) is currently on
vacation. Therefore this site is currently unavailable throughout the
Christmas holidays. It will be back in operation at the start of
January. This site has been a primary site for gifs, games and sound
files and will also be undergoing some ugprades during its downtime.
We apologize for any inconveniences this may have caused.
Sound Bits
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Playmac Technologies proudly introduces the SOUNDBLASTER (tm) version
of Playmac. Now you can enjoy your sound files as enhanced through
your SOUND-BLASTER (tm) or ADLIB (tm) sound boards with the same
advantages of Playmac 2.00.
o Organize your sound-files
o Floppy disk and Hard Disk support
o Dos 3.2, 3.3 and 4.0 support
o Now able to play longer sound files
o New improved file handling
Playmac for SOUND-BLASTER is available at ccb.ucsf.edu and will
shortly be available at rogue.
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Just got passed word that LEADING TECHNOLOGIES is working on a sound
board called the AUDIOWARE BOARD. This sound board was featured in
a Nov/Dec issue of InfoWorld magazine.
I called their 800 phone number and was told that the board was still
in production and to check back in several weeks. I did manage to
find out that the board can do speech, music and will be MIDI compatible
and also Soundblaster compatible. It is supposed to be 16-bit. And
get this he said that the price (retail) would be about $199.
I am following up on this company and will be bringing more details as
they become available. If anybody else knows anything about this board
please e-mail me.
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Many of you have been asking about how to play files on a SUN or SPARC
station. I have obtained several of these conversion programs and
files but I have not been able to test them. However I have been
informed by John Christianson that there is a site at 'ucsd.edu'
that does have files in the 'sparcaudio' and the 'midi' directories
that you can experiment with.
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There have recently been a lot of new progams out to play sound
files. Among them Playmac, Digiplay, Scream Tracker and many more.
If you are the author of one of these and would like to tell everybody
about your product we are now accepting short summaries for posting
in our next edition.
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YOUR sound related announcement can go here just send it over to
us for inclusion in our magazine and enjoy a circulation of over
450 users worldwide!
*****
This sound site is available by anonymous FTP at:
ccb.ucsf.edu (128.218.1.13)
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Other Known Sound FTP Sites
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If you know of any other Sound ftp sites please forward the information
this way. If you know the administrators of the below sound sites or
you are in charge of one of the below sound sites please e-mail me so
we can join efforts. Your input to this sound-list would be greatly
appreciated.
WHERE WHAT
abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov Amiga Sound Files
ccb.ucsf.edu REmac/PLAYMAC general *.snd files
chyde.uwasa.fi Scream Tracker
kfps-roble6-dynamic.stanford.edu (Rogue) Sound Blaster/Scream Tracker
Over 60 megs of GIFS
131.123.2.50 Sound Blaster/Adlib
sumex-aim.stanford.edu Macintosh sounds (binhexed)
terminator.cc.umich.edu Misc Sound files
ucsd.edu (128.54.16.1) Sun audio / MIDI
wsmr-simtel20.army.mil Sound players
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By adding yourself to the mailing list the following will happen.
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(2) Periodic updates as to when new files are available on
the Sound Site.
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| komatsu@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu | Playmac Technologies |
| komatsu@aludra.usc.edue | Co-author / Public Relations |
| -----> Dave | Playmac 2.00, SIMP, TP, QL etc |
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