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Review: G-Bell
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Have you ever wished that your ST could assign samples to
operations? You know, like a sample screaming "No! Please
don't kill me, I haven't done anything!" when you drag a
file to the trash can, or "Put me down! Put me down I can
walk on my own" in the tone of Norman Bates' Mother (from
the film Psycho) when you pick up an icon and drag it to
another disk. Well, I certainly have. And now it's possible
with a copy of MiNT and G-Bell.
G-Bell requires a hard drive to store the samples in, or a
ramdisk (you need to have about 8Mb of memory in your ST in
this case!). Using a word-processor, you edit a file which
contains what files are to be played according to what
operations are performed. Once this is done, the samples
should be placed on the hard drive in the right partition,
or in a ramdisk with the right drive letter. And then, pop
G-Bell in the AUTO folder along with MiNT and your samples
will be played!
This program is STE only, because it uses DMA sounds and the
STE's DMA hardware. The reason it uses this hardware us so
nothing freezes up when the sample is played. On an STFM,
this would occur because sounds are created and played by
the main processor, but on the STE, sounds are played by the
DMA processor. So make sure you have an STE when you order
this program.
Overall, it's not very user friendly. Editing the file takes
a bit of getting used to, and because it requires MiNT, you
can only run TOS programs under it. This is a shame, but
perhaps the author will bring out another version of it.
Overall, I think you'd be better off with a commercial
program like Crazy Sounds.....
From: Dynamic PDL/Most good PDLs
Contact: 0983 867377
Price: Free with own disk and SAE, else £1.00
The Uppers.....
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* Brilliant fun
* Very impressive
* Doesn't freeze when samples are played
and the Downers
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* Requires MiNT
* Not all programs are compatible with it
* STE only
* Not very user friendly
Overall: 60%