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- DIGPAK - THE Standard for PC digitized sound
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- Enhanced Digitized Sound Drivers for
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- Strategic Simulations, Inc.'s
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- Gateway To The Savage Frontier
- Pools of Darkness
- Tony La Russa's Ultimate Baseball
- (and future products)
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- Software Toolworks'
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- Chessmaster 3000
- (and future products)
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- Milliken Publishing Company's
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- Milliken Storyteller
- Marvin The Moose
- Math Zone
- (and future products)
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- FROM:
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- THE Audio Solution
- P.O. Box 11688
- Clayton, MO 63105
- Phone: (314)-567-0267
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- How to use these sound drivers with the products mentioned above:
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- All of these products use the set of digitized sound drivers
- (DIGPAK) provided by THE Audio Solution. THE Audio Solution has a set
- of sound drivers that support virtually every piece of 3rd party sound
- hardware available for the IBM PC. If you purchased one of the games
- above but it doesn't have the sound driver for your sound board (like
- the Walt Disney Sound Source of your Covox Sound Master II), you can use
- the batch file DIGPAK to select one of these sound drivers. When you
- run one of the products above it will use that sound driver instead of
- the one you selected when you installed the product. If you have
- problems with one of these drivers, do not contact SSI or Software
- Toolworks, instead go back to the original default driver that came with
- your product. You can drop me a line at the following account numbers:
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- Genie: XTX36975 J.RATCLIFF
- CompuServe: 70253,3237
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- After loading a sound driver with DIGPAK you can play back
- sound effects from the DOS prompt using the PLAY utility provided. For
- example in SSI's Tony LaRussa's Ultimate Baseball, all of the sound
- files have the extension of .SND. You could copy that sound file over
- into this directory and then type PLAY <filename>. (DO NOT copy PLAY or
- any other files into your game directory!) Be sure to order DIGPAK so
- that you can explore the power of sound on your own computer and from
- within your own software!
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- Below is a detailed list of what comes with DIGPAK. The file
- ORDER.FRM has a complete order form that you can send in.
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- DIGPAK - THE Standard for PC digitized sound
- *****************************************************************************
- Add the power of digitized sound to your DOS applications. Use sound to
- enhance entertainment products, multimedia applications, user
- interfaces, on-line help systems, and even voice e-mail applications.
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- You can use DIGPAK to play back sound effects on any kind of PC audio
- hardware, through batch files, at the DOS prompt, or from within your
- own programs. Using the audio compression and decompression utilities
- you can easily upload and download audio files over a telephone modem!
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- Supports all 3rd party hardware sound boards, as well as the internal
- IBM speaker, with high quality digitized sound. Provides audio
- compression and decompression utilities with source code. Loadable
- driver approach provides a simple programmers interface to produce
- clean, clear, digitized sound on all hardware platforms. Only THE Audio
- Solution provides a SIMPLE and COMPLETE solution for producing digitized
- sound output, and audio compression and decompression, for todays
- advanced PC products.
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- FatClips Audio disks represent a collection of sampled music and
- digitized sound effects created by The FatMan, George Sanger, producer
- of the music for Origin Systems "Wing Commander", and MT-32 arrangements
- for Lucasfilm Games' "Loom"
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- DIGPAK INCLUDES:
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- 14 sound drivers, all sound drivers resident size under 2k.
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- DOS tools to do the following:
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- PLAY Play sound effects of any size from the DOS
- prompt or from within a batch file.
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- ACOMP Standardized audio compression utility.
- Can compress audio files of any size!
- Achieves between 1.5:1 and 3:1 compression
- on music and as high as 6:1 compression on
- human voice.
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- UCOMP Decompress ACOMP compressed audio files.
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- MIX Mix two sound files together into one.
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- SPLIT Break large sound files apart into smaller
- more manageable pieces.
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- CSAMP Change sampling rates of a sound file.
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- WRIMAGE A colorful educational and entertaining word game.
- Supports up to four players, full of humorous
- sound effects. More than 3,000 word, word list!
- Plus add spelling lists from your children's
- school assignments. (Like Wheel of Fortune)
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- SOUND EFFECTS: 75 free sound effects!
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- DIGPAK PRO ONLY:
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- DOCUMENTATION: Complete documentation on how to use DIGPAK inside
- your own application software.
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- SOURCE CODE: Source code examples and linkable object modules
- to access sound playback and audio decompression
- from within your software.
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- Driver Manufacturer Operation Resolution
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- IBMSND Internal Speaker FOREGROUND 6 bit
- IBMBAK Internal Speaker BACKGROUND 6 bit
- CVXSND Covox Speech Thing BACKGROUND 8 bit
- VMSND Covox Voice Master BACKGROUND 8 bit
- SMSND Covox Sound Master BACKGROUND 8 bit
- SBLASTER Creative Labs Sound Blaster BACKGROUND 8 bit/DMA
- ADLIB Adlib Personal Music System BACKGROUND 8 bit
- DIGISP Digispeech Adaptor Board FOREGROUND 8 bit
- SOURCE Walt Diseney Sound Source BACKGROUND 8 bit
- ECHOII Street Electronics Echo II BACKGROUND 8 bit
- LANTSND Lantastic Voice Adaptor BACKGROUND 8 bit
- TANEXTX Tandy EX/TX, PCjr BACKGROUND 4 bit
- TANSLTL Tandy SL/TL BACKGROUND 8 bit/DMA
- PAUDIO Media Vision ProAudio BACKGROUND 8 bit/DMA
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- * FatClips Audio Disk 1: Sound Effects and the hit song 'Beat-A-Way'. *
- * All sound effects Copyright (c) 1991, George Alistar Sanger, The Fat Man*
- ***************************************************************************
- [APPLAUSE.SND] Applause [WHITE.ABT] The White Zone
- [DOORBELL.SND] Doorbell [SMOKE.ABT] Smoke That Stuff
- [PARTY.SND] Party [FORMAT.ABT] Format Hard Disk
- [RADIAL.SND] Radial Saw [BUSY.SND] Busy Signal
- [CARSTART.ABT] Car Starting [NOT.ABT] Not!
- [CARHORN.ABT] Car Horn [SEX.ABT] Sex
- [DISC.ABT] Disc [SAVAGE.ABT] Savage
- [OUCH.ABT] Ouch [SHOES.SND] Horseshoes
- [CAPTAIN.ABT] Captain [THIS.ABT] Now THIS
- [OVENDOOR.ABT] Oven Door [GRENADE.ABT] Hand Grenade
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- ***************************************************************************
- * FatClips Audio Disk 2: Containing FatMusic! *
- * All music & sndfx Copyright (c) 1991, George Alistar Sanger, The Fat Man*
- ***************************************************************************
- Brain Race To Terror
- Up To Business 'requires more than 520k free DOS memory to play'
- Southern Slide
- Hip Chords
- 'Marvin The Moose' Theme Song
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