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The Wave Utilities 2.1
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Copyright (C) 1993 by TASsoft
Written by Tim Tschirner and Christoph Sundergeld
Thank you for downloading and trying the Wave Utilities! Feel free to
pass a copy to all your friends and upload them to a BBS near you.
The archive WAVUTL21.ZIP should contain:
README.TXT - What you're currently reading
LOOPER.EXE - Looper Windows Application
LOOPER.HLP - Online Help File for Looper
PLAYER.EXE - Player Windows Application
PLAYER.HLP - Online Help File for Player
REGISTER.FRM - Registration formular for The Wave Utilities 2.1
WHATSNEW.TXT - An overview of the new features in The Wave Utilities
BWCC.DLL - Borland's Windows Custom Control Library
LOOPME01.WAV - A sample wave file to use with Looper
LOOPME02.WAV - A sample wave file to use with Looper
PLAYME01.WAV - A sample wave file to use with Player
What do the Wave Utilities consist of?
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The Wave Utilities 2.1 consist of Looper and Player, two Windows sound
applications.
Looper is a Windows application that plays digitized audio files in
wave format (files with the .wav extension) continuously in the back-
ground. It can handle all the types and formats of Wave files that
your sound card is capable playing of. The size of the Wave file to be
looped must not be larger than half of your installed physical memory
(not the virtual memory Windows provides). You can stop and restart the
looping process. With Looper, you can have a lot of fun. It can almost
turn your computer into a Sampler, a Beat Box or a drum machine.
Player is a sound player for Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher, which can
handle all the types and formats of Wave files that your sound card is
capable playing of. There are no limitations to the length of the Wave
file to be played. You are now able to play Wave files by simply
doubleclicking them in the File Manager. Normally, this isn't the case
- launching a Wave file calls up the Sound Recorder with the Wave file
loaded in memory. If you have a Pro AudioSpectrum 16 sound card, you
can use it's feature to play back two Wave files simultaneously together
with Looper and Player. Player can also play Wave files while you're
playing .mod files and much more. Once you installed Player, launching
a .WAV document from the File Manager will play the sound. This allows
greater flexibility for organizing and playing sounds. For example, you
can now install all of your sounds in a Program Manager group.
Doubleclicking their icons will then play them. By installing a Wave file
in your Autostart Group you are now able to play a sound of unlimited
length when Windows starts up.
When you use Norton Desktop For Windows 2.0 or later as your Windows
Shell, you can make easy use of Player's feature to play back several
Wave files after another.
What software and hardware requirements do they have ?
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You must have either Windows with Multimedia Extensions or Windows 3.1
or above installed on your system. You will also need at least 1 Mega-
byte of RAM and a sound card that is capable of playing back digitized
sounds (such as a Sound Blaster card).
It is also required that you put the file BWCC.DLL which comes with
The Wave Utilities 2.1 in your WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory. If you should
already have a copy of it you should keep the one with the latest date.
How do I install them on my system?
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The installation is quite easy. Simply copy BWCC.DLL into your
WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory and the Wave files into the directory where
you store your other Wave files. The remaining files can be copied to
any directory of your choice, e.g. C:\WINDOWS\WAVEUTIL.
For more details look at the LOOPER.HLP and PLAYER.HLP files. If Windows
is already running, start the Windows Help and open one of the above
Help files. You can also start the Windows Help from the DOS prompt.
Assuming that LOOPER.HLP and PLAYER.HLP are both located in the
WINDOWS\WAVEUTIL directory on drive c, enter one of the following
commands at the DOS prompt:
WINHELP C:\WINDOWS\WAVEUTIL\LOOPER.HLP to view Looper's Help File
or
WINHELP C:\WINDOWS\WAVEUTIL\PLAYER.HLP to view Player's Help File
Are The Wave Utilities Freeware or Shareware or what?
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The Wave Utilities are released as Shareware. This means that you can
use them for 2 weeks without any restrictions, but after that period
you must either register or delete them. When you register, you will
receive the latest versions of the software that do not contain the
registration reminders plus you will get a lot of Waveformat audio
files to use with Looper and Player for free.
The registration fee is $10 (U.S funds). To register, print out the
file REGISTER.FRM, fill it out, put it together with the $10 into an
envelope and send it back to us. You can send it to one of these
addresses:
1) TASsoft 2) TASsoft
c/o c/o
Tim Tschirner Christoph Sundergeld
Clarenstr. 19 Beckhausstr. 175
W-4900 Herford W-4800 Bielefeld
Germany Germany
As soon as your order reaches us, we will mail you your individual
registered versions of Looper and Player. We will fill up the remaining
space on the diskette with Wave files. Make sure that you specify the
diskette type on which you want to receive the files and the specifi-
cations the Wave files shall have. If you have an E-Mail address, we
can also send you your registered version to that address via uuen-
coded E-Mail.
If you're already a registered user of The Wave Utilities, you can get
Version 2.1 for only $5 (U.S. funds). If we can send you the files via
uuencoded E-Mail the update fee is only $3 (U.S. funds).
To update, print out the file REGISTER.FRM, fill it out, put it together
with the money into an envelope and send it back to us.
Your comments, troubles, bug reports, etc.:
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We would really like to hear your comments on Looper and Player!
If you find some bugs or have any comments, questions or problems,
you can contact us at the following Internet E-Mail addresses:
1) Tim Tschirner
ittschir@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
2) Christoph Sundergeld
icsunder@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
A special note for Pro AudioSpectrum 16 owners:
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If you have a Pro AudioSpectrum 16 sound card installed in your system,
you can use it's special feature of playing back two Wave files at the
same time together with the Wave Utilites.
Please consult LOOPER.HLP and PLAYER.HLP for more detailed information.