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MU-03: PC Speaker Music & Sounds
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0094 Music Utilities Small Programs Disk
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Beater 1.8
McElwee, Jared
$10
turns your computer into a highly-accurate metronome. It can be set from 30 to
250 beats per minute. (Not on this disk. Ask for disk #8909.)
Guitar 1.4 (GTR-JPC)
Canannes, Jean-Pierre
$0
aids in tuning a guitar to standard (Spanish) or D or G tunings. It can also
transpose up to five half-tones up or down. This program comes to us from France
and contains instructions in both English and French; it can play a short folk
melody from either country.
Guitar Tuner 1.41 (GUITUNE)
Fenemore, Michael
$7
is a six-string-guitar tuner. It features a right or left handed
display, and you can hear the notes of each chord through the computer's
speaker. (Not on this disk. Ask for disk #8986.)
Jplay
Jewl Tronics
$?
plays five different tunes through your PC's speaker, and shows a graphic
representation of the notes on an EGA/VGA monitor. The different songs are
accessed via the escape key. Comes complete with Pascal source code.
MrOrgan
Lutton, Mark
$?
is a Memory Resident ORGAN - a keyboard music program that lets you play while
you work.
ModPlay 2.0
Cox, Mark J.
$0
allows you to play Amiga soundtracker/noisetracker files (or 4 channel
Startrekker files) on a PC's speaker. (Not on this disk. Ask for disk #8749.)
Musical Utilities 4.0 (MUSUTIL)
Armada Software
$20
is a collection of several useful musical programs. The main feature is the
Frequency-Note converter, which will convert either a frequency to the nearest
musical note, or if you input a frequency it will determine the closest note and
octave. It also features a table of musical instrument ranges and a key
transposition calculator. The last feature is a staff paper printing routine,
which will printout music staff paper with 9, 10, 12, or 18 sets of lines per
page.
Piano
Abramson, R.
$?
turns the PC keyboard into a keyboard instrument. Flats, normal notes and
sharps follow one another on the keyboard, which is not conducive to serious
playing. There is no documentation, but all instructions appear on-screen.
Play
Mefford, Michael
$0
works like BASICA's PLAY command, or you can store PLAY commands in a text
file to be played. For a sample, at the DOS prompt, enter PLAY STRING/F (the
"/F" tells PLAY to look for a data file).
Songedit (SNGEDIT)
Campbell, George
$10
is a music composition editor. You can even let your PC compose its own music.
VMusic
Holden, Ted
$?
was the first true polyphonic (multi-tone) shareware music playing program for
the PC. This is the best music you can get on a PC without special equipment.
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END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #0094
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2848 Music Programs Small Programs Disk
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Anthems
Moran, Nancy
$1
is a set of five musical selections that have been used or suggested as
alternate national anthems of the United States. Also included is "Stars and
Strips Forever" by John Philip Sousa. Nancy Moran has become the leading
virtuoso of music transcribed with Pianoman. These are not simple melodies,
they are major compositions.
Alleluia (ALLELUI)
is a text file containing the words to popular Christmas carols for
sing-alongs. Needs to be printed at 12 characters-per-inch.
BachEd
Poschman, Warren
$5
is a set of songs that can be played with Polyphonic Music 1.20 (on disk
#1845). The songs include: "Concerto for Two Violins" by J. S. Bach, "German
Dance" by K. D. von Dittersdorf, and "Edelweiss".
Dances
Leman, Wayne
$0
is a collection of 31 folkloric and classical dance tunes. Music plays through
the computer's speaker.
Familiar Waltzes (WALTZES)
Leman, Wayne
$5
is a collection of 46 popular waltzes. Music plays through the PC's speaker.
(Not on this disk. Ask for disk #8911.)
Hail
Sander, Louis F.
$0
plays "Hail to the Chief" on your PC's speaker - just in time for the
Presidential elections. This version was taken from the original 1812 sheet
music for the song.
PCKeys 1.0
Jarrett, Eric
$8
displays an on-screen piano keyboard which can be played with a mouse.
You can also record and edit your compositions. (Not on this disk. Ask
for disk #8985.)
Polkas
Leman, Wayne
$5
is a collection of 27 polka tunes. Music plays through the PC's speaker. All of
the tunes in this package are stand-alone programs created with PianoMan. (Not
on this disk. Ask for disk #8911.)
Popular Old Songs (POPULAR)
Leman, Wayne
$10
is a collection of 24 old popular songs, such as Auld Lang Syne, My Old Kentucky
Home, Yellow Rose of Texas and many more. Music is played through the PC's
speaker.
Rousing Songs (ROUSER)
Sander, Louis F.
$12
includes 35 songs and melodies, from Alouette to Yankee Doodle, played on the
PC's speaker. These seem awfully weak in this age of sound cards for the PC, but
the military bugle calls may be of interest to some. QB 4.5 source code
included.
Tunes
De Palma, John R.
$0
is a collection of songs that do not require a sound card. Included are Here
Comes the Sun, Star Spangled Banner, Mountain King, Happy Birthday, Toccata &
Fugue in D.
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END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #2848
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3967 Sound Effects/Utilities Small Programs Disk
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Bugle Calls
Sander, Louis F.
$0
lets you play any of 20 well-known bugle calls from a menu or the DOS command
line. What better way to let people in your office know that the mail has
arrived or that a conference has been called?
DigPak
The Audio Solution
$40-70
is a set of drivers that lets you play digitized sounds on any sound board, as
well as the PC's speaker. It offers enhanced support for many games, such as
Ultimate Baseball, Chessmaster 3000 and others. (See section MU-01 for many
disks of sound files.)
DPlayVoc 1.1 (DPLAYVO)
Montelo Consulting
$10
plays VOC files on the Disney Sound Source.
PC-Studio 1.0 (PCSTUDI)
Anabicis
$15
is a digitized sound file player that does not require a sound card. The sounds
are very good and clear on our test PC's speaker. A full-screen version lets you
adjust volume, speed and other elements. A command line version lets you play
sound files from within batch files.
For example, after doing a CHKDSK, you could play the included HAL sound file
that says: "I'm completely operational, and all my circuits are functioning
perfectly." For more sound files, see section MU-01.
Tommie Talley, Ardmore, OK: "I get a divide overflow error message when trying
to run the program."
PsL: When we retested the program on one machine, we also received a divide
overflow, but after rebooting, it ran fine. On another machine, it ran the first
time. All we can suggest is rebooting with no TSRs or drivers in memory.
Sounds for Quattro Pro 3. (QPROSND)
BC Design
$0
is a sampler of sound files which can be played under Quattro Pro 3.+
Sampler #2 (SAMP-02)
BC Design
$12 per disk
is a sampler of sound files which have been converted to play under Borland's
Quattro Pro. Sounds included are "Charge!", "I'll be back", and "Hallelujah".
TSR-FX
Smith, Dave & Cravener, Bill
$0
is a 1k TSR that lets you hit various hot keys to generate different sounds,
such as birds, laser blasts, etc. Also included are small TSR's to speed up the
keyboard and to add key click sounds.
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END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #3967
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ACCU Music System 3.4
Fischer, Kevin ASP
$23
#4897
lets you create music on your PC. AMS has many features which Ad Lib's
Visual Composer does not, with some pro's and con's to them. In AMS, you
can only see/edit/print one voice (series of notes) at