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ABOUT SOUNDS.EXE
SOUNDS.EXE is a program from the kit, PIECES, by Another
Company. With PIECES, you can create just about anything for
IBM-compatible computing. No programming skill is necessary.
See end of this file for more information about PIECES.
What It Does
SOUNDS is for playing sound files which can produce
single-voice melodies on the ordinary PC speaker. These
files are ordinary text files containing ASCII numbers. They
can be created by MELODY.EXE which comes with the PIECES kit,
or with any standard word processor in ASCII mode.
How To Use It
From within a batch or script file, type SOUNDS, followed by
a space and then the name of a sound file you have created.
Additional Information
See MELODY.DOC for more information.
SOUNDS.EXE will not change whatever image is currently on the
screen.
You can create or modify sound files directly if you prefer.
Use your favorite word processing or text editing program
which works in standard ASCII mode. If you have Microsoft
Windows, you'll find the included NOTEPAD program does this
well. Here's what you have to know to edit sound files:
*Each line in a sound file contains two integers. The first
is the frequency of the sound to be played in Hertz (cycles
per second). The allowable range is 18 to 30000. The second
number is the amount of time to play the note in milliseconds
(thousandths of a second). The allowable time range is 0 to
30000. (30 seconds - eee gads!)
*Rests are created by using a frequency of 0.
*Stacatto and regular notes are created by mixing small rests
(frequency 0) in between sounds.
*Each line must start at the leftmost position on the screen,
there can be no spaces.
*Each line is independent of other lines.
*There must be no blank lines.
About Pieces
PIECES is a shareware disk containing several small programs
that can be combined to do a variety of tasks with
a super-professional look and feel. No programming experience
is needed. PIECES can be expanded to incorporate your
favorite programs as well, so it's possibilities for making
and enhancing pictures shows, text presentations, multimedia,
electronic catalogs, teaching materials, executable software,
games, shareware and more are limitless!
You can register as many or as few PIECES as you wish.
Registered users are licensed to copy and distribute the
PIECES along with their finished products. Unregistered
users may copy and distribute the complete unmodified PIECES
package, but may not use only portions of it until purchase
of registration. Use of PIECES beyond 30 days requires
registration.
Most unregistered PIECES programs have a "unregistered"
notice which pops up randomly, approximately every 200 times.
This is removed from the registered versions, and also saves
as much as 3,000 bytes disk space per program.
This software is copyrighted by Jeff Napier of Another
Company, and distributed by Gary Smith of OEC Systems.
The shareware or registered versions of PIECES may be
purchased from Gary Smith at OEC Systems:
Gary Smith
c/o OEC Systems
4646 North Shallowford Road
Atlanta, GA 30338-6304
phone: 404-394-1000
orders only: 800-444-2424
fax: 404-394-1006
BBS: 404-804-7889
MasterCard and VISA accepted
Neither Another Company nor Gary Smith/OEC Systems assume
any responsibility for your use of this product or any
Another Company product.
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