moonhawk@bluemoon.uucp (David Culberson) (04/24/91)
OK everybody, I was wanting to know ANY and ALL info you would happen to have on the IBM soundblaster VOC files and the Amiga IFF 8svx format. I am learning C programming on the Amiga, and I want an excersize to see if I am learning right, and to learn file I/O and the use of devices in the Amiga. I am relatively new, so ANY help with C you could give me would be much appreciated! How about it? Is this too big of a project for a new C programmer to take on? I read several local messages about people wanting to convert and use the IBM files in their Amiga SW, but they couldn't find anything to do this. How difficult will it be? I heard the Audio.device is the hardest device to program, and to learn about others before this one. Is this so? I would want to know which ones to use to begin with, then. Any excersizes (useful ones I could intro. to the Public domain) that you could suggest? David This is from moonhawk@bluemoon.uucp moonhawk%bluemoon@nstar.rn.com who doesn't have their own obnoxious signature yet
tinman@agora.rain.com (David Tinnyo) (04/25/91)
In article <XoLV13w164w@bluemoon.uucp> moonhawk@bluemoon.uucp (David Culberson) writes: > > OK everybody, I was wanting to know ANY and ALL info you would >happen to have on the IBM soundblaster VOC files and the Amiga IFF 8svx >format. I am learning C programming on the Amiga, and I want an excersize There's a shareware program out for PC's that lets you edit/play Amiga MOD files (its called ScreamTracker). There's a utility in it that converts .VOC files into Amiga samples. The technical docs say that .VOC files have a 32-byte header followed by 8-bit UNSIGNED sample data (this is only for non-packed .VOC files). It also mentions that Amiga samples (IFF?) are stored as 8-bit SIGNED data. The conversion should be as simple as adding (or subtracting) 128 from the sample values. ScreamTracker should be available on most PC BBS that have SoundBlaster coverage. It's got some good documentation on the .MOD format as well. I hope this helps... -- --- David E. Tin Nyo "The key to the future is information, tinman@agora.rain.com and it is FREE." -The Phoenix Project ---