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From: mjw06513@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mary Winters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Remac - sound program for MS-DOS compatibles???
Summary: terminator.cc.umich.edu
Keywords: Remac/sound/msdos
Message-ID: <1990Jul7.011536.280@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 7 Jul 90 01:15:36 GMT
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I'm posting instead of emailing because every time this comes up it tends to be
of wide interest.

In article <57977@bbn.BBN.COM> tluteran@bbn.com (Thomas Luteran) writes:
>
>     I've been seeing references to a program called "remac", for generating
>     sounds on an MS-DOS compatible PC.  What exactly does this program do?

It plays Macintosh format sound files through the PC speaker.

>     Is this available by anon ftp from somewhere?  If so, where?  

I got my copy from terminator.cc.umich.edu. Also on terminator are a bunch of
sound files in atari/sound/sounds. These apparently are Mac sound files with
the resource forks removed (or something like that). These files are preferable
to the ones found in some Mac archives because often times the latter are 
binhexed and stuffed, which means you have to unstuff and unbinhex them before 
you can use them and afterwards they still have the resource forks which remac 
plays through the speaker along with the real sound data, causing a brief 
crackle of noise at the end of each sound bite. 

In short, this is an excellent package, and my hat is off to the author for 
making it available. Rumor has it that he's working on a version which can be 
incorporated into other programs. If this is true, I await it with bated 
breath...



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