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- Zounds!
- By Don Lloyd
-
-
-
- Zounds! is a Workbench-based sound player for users of the 2.0 OS. I
- haven't tried it under 1.3, but I imagine it'd load and do absolutely
- nothing since Zounds! uses 2.0's AppEvents.
- To use Zounds, just double-click its icon or run it from the CLI to get
- started. It will open an icon-like (hereafter referred to as its icon)
- window on your workbench screen. (There will be an unsightly drag bar on
- top of this... just click on something else on your WB to make this disappear;
- when you want to move the Zounds! icon, just click on it first to make the
- drag bar reappear). Use your WB to find some IFF 8SVX sounds somewhere. When
- you want to listen to one, just drag its icon and drop it on top of the
- Zounds! icon. You can even play multiple sounds by shift-clicking a group
- of sounds and dragging them to the Zounds! icon, but they're likely to come
- out sounding a bit jumbled.
- To exit Zounds!, just click on its icon and select Quit from its menu.
-
- There are two versions of Zounds! included. The first is the normal
- standalone version. The second, called Zounds!.cd, is for owners of CanDo
- v1.5 or later who have the CanDo.library in their libs: directory.
-
- Future plans for Zounds!:
- - Rewrite in C as soon when documentation for 2.0-specific features
- becomes available for non-developers. Since CanDo.library is not
- redistributable, it has to be compiled as a standalone application by
- binding it with CanDo's DeckRunner... which adds over 100K to the size of
- the executable (Zounds! is ~124K, while Zounds!.cd is just under 2K!).
- - Add a means of setting the volume.
- - Provide better support for multi-sound playing.
-
-
- Zounds! is shareware. Being a Poor College Student (tm), I'll take
- money any way I can get it :-). If you like Zounds! and use it often,
- please send me $5 (if you _really_ like it you could send more, I suppose
- :-). This will entitle you to free upgrades to future versions (no
- upgrades are promised, but time and documentation permitting, I'll give it
- a try).
- Zounds! may be redistributed freely as long as the files in this
- archive all remain present and unmodified, and as long as the above
- shareware notice is heeded.
-
-
- Don Lloyd
- 775 Fox Chase Circle
- Bear, DE 19701
-
- don@brahms.udel.edu
-
-
- Just say NO to MS-DOS!
-