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- About the program:
- Opus8 was written in Pascal and compiled with the PCQ PD compiler. I am a big
- Bloom County fan, so that's where I got the name. It is easy to use. All you do
- is type "Opus8 <MacSound> <IFF sound> <Hz>". Then just run the sounds with
- your favorite sound player.
-
- About the frequency:
- Typically, Macintosh sounds are sampled at four frequencies. They are :
- 22.2 kHz
- 11.1 kHz
- 7.2 kHz
- 5.7 kHz.
- Rarely will you find a sound sampled at another rate.
-
- About the sound examples:
- I used a friend's SuperDrive to copy the examples to MS-DOS then Dos-2-Dos to
- get them on my Amiga. Here are the frequencies so you can convert them
- yourself:
- Pig-Ignorance.mac 11100 Hz
- HAL.Sorry.mac 11100 Hz
- If you want more sounds I have a few more disks of them just drop me a
- letter (and a little cash:disks, mailers, postage[More than three bucks
- will be dandy.]) and I'll send some along. There are Monty Python sounds,
- Doctor Who sounds, 2001 sounds, Bodily Functions, Song Clips, etc.
-
- About the problems:
- IF you hear a pop at the beginning of the converted sound, you probably
- downloaded the sound, or that is the way the sound is. My program does not
- yet strip the DeskTop info off the file, and probably will not. Stuff
- copied with the Apple SuperDrive will be perfectly fine. Though I am not
- sure about Mac-2-DOS, but I will find out.
-
- Also, do not make Opus8 resident and then run it with sounds on the RAM DISK.
- I have not got the foggiest idea why it doesn't work, but it will run and then
- the IFF sound cannot be found by any program, but it does show up on Dir and
- List. Why, I hear you ask. I do not know. So don't do it.
-
- Donations:
- Donations will be graciously accepted. I will send you more sounds and any
- upgrades I make. I also need a harddrive. Please help.
-
- Distrubution:
- You may distribute this as long as you keep these files together. You may
- put this program in your PD collection as long as you do not charge more
- than $5 for the disk it is on. It is my program, I wrote it, I make the
- rules for it. Capice(?)?
-
- For the future:
- A Workbench interface. Amiga to Mac. IBM AdLib sounds. Using the memory a
- little bit better.
-
- Running on the Amiga 3000:
- This program works fine on the 3000, but the disk drive slows it down. The
- program reads and converts 1K blocks but that might change in the future.
-
- Thanks:
- Thanks go out to Kerry and Ian for the Mac sounds. One for Mark for the use
- of his Mac IIsi. To Patrick Quaid for the help with the program and for
- the compiler. To Ken for the use of his Amiga 3000, and for scanning the
- pictures for the icon. And to Rebecca for being so nice. Thanks.
-
- About the author:
- My name is John Safranek. I am a Leo. I am a Senior in high school. I've had a
- year a BASIC and a Semester and a half of Pascal in school. And blowing my own
- horn: this is a great first program. Thank you.
-
- Address: NOTE this address will change in June 1992. I graduate.
-
- John A. Safranek
- c/o Maj NJ Safranek
- 2nd General Hospital
- CMR-402 Box 770
- APO, AE 09180
-
- November 23, 1991
-
- Register to VOTE. Zappa '92.
-