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- Probe House DMA Sample Player rel 4.2
- by William Wong, Sep 97
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- WHAT IS IT?
- Probe House DMA Player (PH Player) is a 8/16 bits, mono/stereo DMA
- sample player for the STE, MSTE, TT & Falcon. It's a simple player,
- just pass it some sample & it will play it.
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- WHAT'S NEW IN THIS RELEASE?
- * IMA ADPCM stereo support.
- * Loaded sample information display.
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- WHAT SAMPLE FORMAT DOES IT SUPPORT?
- Following audio format are automatically recognised:
- 1/ AU - Next/Sun Audio files ( u-law, 8/16 bits linear).
- 2/ AVR - Audio Visual Research ( 8/16 bits linear).
- 3/ WAV - Microsoft Wave ( u-law, a-law, ADPCM, 8/16 bits PCM).
- 4/ WAV - IMA 4-bits ADPCM.
- 5/ SND - Sound file (8/16 bits linear).
- 6/ AIF - SGI/Apple IIF uncompressed (8/16 bits).
- 7/ IFF - AMIGA IIF uncompressed (8/16 bits).
- 8/ VOC - PC SoundBlaster uncompressed (8/16 bits).
- 9/ RAW - any data files: default to 8 bits, 8KHz & Mono.
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- Mono/stereo samples are support for all known formats.
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- WHAT PLAYBACK SPEED/FREQUENCY DOES IT SUPPORT?
- All the popular playback speed are supported. PH Player preprocess the
- sample for speed adjustment before playing. This incur some delay before
- playing the sample. However, playback will suffer no delay.
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- The following playback speed is supported:
- 5500, 6258, 7333, 8000, 10000, 10050,11025,12516,16000,18900,
- 22050,22150,25033,32000,37800,44056,44100,48000,50066 Hz.
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- HOW TO USE IT?
- 1/ Install it as a desktop icon.
- To play any sample, just drag the sample file on to it.
- No GUI will appear when using this method.
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- 2/ Double click it.
- A GUI will appear. Here you can PLAY, STOP or LOAD any sample.
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- 3/ Install it as a viewer for another program.
- The program must pass to it the full pathname of the sample.
- No GUI will be appear under this mode.
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- 4/ Installing it as a Desktop Accessory.
- Renaming it to .ACC extension & placing it on your bootup partition.
- When called from the desktop accessory, a GUI will appear.
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- 5/ VA-Protocal.
- The calling program must pass to it the full pathname of the sample.
- If PH Player GUI is opened, the GUI will be topped otherwise no GUI
- will appear.
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- THE GUI BUTTONS & SHORTCUT KEYS
- The 1st button or 'P'/ENTER/RETURN key is PLAY.
- The 2nd button or 'S'/ESC is STOP.
- The 3rd button or 'L'/SPACE is LOAD.
- The 4th button or 'I' key is ABOUT & sample information.
- The closer widget or 'q'/UNDO key is QUIT.
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- SAMPLE INFORMATION
- The sample information (format, frequency, stero/mono) is displayed
- by pressing the 'i' icon or by pressing the 'i' key. The information
- is displayed along with the ABOUT of the program.
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- PROGRAM OR DESKTOP ACCESSORY?
- PH Player is both! Just change the extension from .PRG to .ACC for it
- to become an desktop accessory.
- On bootup, PH Player can play a sample ( ala Win95 ) if it can locate
- the file "PHPLAYER.WAV" at the bootup partition. The sample can be
- any sample format but the extension must be .WAV.
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- Bootup will continue as the sample plays!
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- ALL THIS FOR FREE?
- It's not shareware, crippleware nor nagware. It's FREEWARE!
- No conscience of not paying up.
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- Only a small token of appreciation by visiting my website...
- or uploading this program on to your local BBS.
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- WHAT ELSE?
- Probably on-the-fly loading for large samples?
- Depends on response of users... so drop me a email.
- Any ideas are welcome.
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- DEVELOPEMENT INFO
- This program was created & tested on a Falcon running both single
- tasking (tos 4.04) and multitasking (AES 4.1). Sorry I don't have
- MagiC so it's not tested on it ( I don't mind if some kind person
- donate Magic 5 to me :-) ).
- Any bugs please let me know.
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- HISTORY
- Jan 97: 1st release
- Feb 97: multiple frequency support, AIFF data block fix.
- Feb 97: VOC & Amiga IFF support.
- Sep 97: Added GUI, VA-protocal, ADPCM support.
- Sep 97: IMA ADPCM support, TTRam/FastRAM fix.
- Sep 97: IMA ADPCM stereo, smaple info display.
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- CONTRIBUTIONS ARE WELCOME
- What can I say, any contributions are welcome.
- Email me for my postal address.
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- email: wongck@letterbox.com
- http : //www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/6880/phsw.html
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