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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:
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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:
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- 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
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- 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.
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