Balthazar 1.0 is a utility that properly converts Microsoft Window's WAVE sound files into System 7 clickable sounds. There is no guessing on the sample rate, Balthazar is intelligent and will calculate out the appropriate data, ergo, there will be no additional clicks or noises (assuming the sample is clean...) Balthazar will convert 8bit monaural or stereo WAVEs into 8 bit monaural or stereo 'snd ' type 1 resources respectively.
"Hey, it's just bits..."
Compatibility-
I have found WAVE files that appear to be 4bit, I have not been able to find documentation as to whether this is actually a 4 bit sample or a 2to1 compression scheme, As soon as I can procure the specification I will add conversion support.
Programmers-
If you are interested I have put the source code in the Public Domain (it will be available on America Online). The source albeit poorly documented does show how to parse Window's "RIFF" (Resource Information File Format) files, how to deal with little-endian big-endian (Intel is backwards), etc... You will want to obtain Microsoft’s “MultiMedia Programmers Reference”.
