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From: AXDRW%ALASKA.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Don R. Withey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: InstallBeep Ideas
Message-ID: <20360@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 24 Jul 89 19:42:23 GMT
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> From: asaph@taurus.bitnet - Date: 20 Jul 89 11:01:21 GMT
> In article <19643@louie.udel.EDU> STU00@vx.acss.umn.edu (Stuart Stanley) write
s:
>>
>>Hello all,
>>
>>    After playing with installbeep last night, (Very impressive) I think
>>I figured out an addition that might be, er, fun.  Here it is:
>>|      x               Stuart Stanley                    |      "  "     |
>>|     x                     STU00@UMNACVX.BITNET         |      O  O     |

        All I can say about your request Stuart is; We'll look into it.  As
        we wrote InstallBeep as a task, we cannot call the DOS functions
        in the normal way.  Also the code that loads the sound is not
        resident in memory, it goes away after you run InstallBeep, to try
        and keep the thing a reasonable size.

> installbeep has a bug. It crashes the machine when too many sounds are queued
> up to be played. To cause this bug, simply force to produce alot more sounds
> then there are channels available. 2 ways to do this:
> first installbeep

Well, since I'm one of the authors.  I might be of some help.
First question, what version are you using?  There are three versions that
have gone out to the door.

1.0 was posted to a BBS around our area, it may have reproduced ;-)
        Anyway, DO NOT USE THIS VERSION!!!  It has many bugs, one of
        which was the posibility of it GURUing when there are no sound
        channels available.

1.1 was posted to the same BBS, to comp.binaries.amiga, and I guess
        Fred Fish got this one from Bob Page or something.  We actually didn't
        want this version to go to Fred yet, as we were not absolutly positive
        that it was bug free....  No big deal, it's stable.  It does have one
        known bug though.  The task name is hosed, due the the fact that we
        forgot to allocate the memory for it (when the stack whent away...).
        So if you get a list of the current tasks, this one may look sort
        of strange.

1.2 was posted only to a BBS, the only change is that the above bug has been
        fixed.  We wanted to make a couple more changes to the program before
        we post it to the real world again.

1.3 should have a lower sound channel priority, it seems that many
        programs don't handle the posibility that their sound channel might
        be stolen.  So PlayBeep steals the channel, then gives it back to
        the system.  The program it stole the channel from hangs.

>                                         asaph
> asaph@taurus.bitnet           or       asaph@math.tau.ac.il

If anyone reading this has a reasonable request that they would like to see
InstallBeep handle or do.  Please send me a mail message at the address
below.
        Don
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