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From: mkheintz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Michael Heintz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Playing a sound
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Date: 16 Jan 91 03:32:30 GMT
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Reply-To: mkheintz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Michael Heintz)
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In article <42564@ut-emx.uucp> ifar355@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang) writes:
>> ... it accomplished this by reading from
>> the drive (harddrive) while playing the sound at the same time.  What I
>> want to know is if this is possible on the GS?  Say I load up the DOC and
>> play the 64k, can the next 64k be loaded in in time to play continuously?
>>   Im not a programer so this is all hope and speculation.  Any comments or
>> ideas?

(I accidentally erased the follow up letter on this response)

Continuous sound should not use the DOC RAM as stated before, you can not
switch back and forth fast enough to do such a thing.

Roger Wagner has developed an Xcmd which works with HyperStudio and allows
you to make a button play a long sound directly from the disk.  They said
now you can incorporate sounds that can take up all available space on your
disk or hard drive! (although, I don't know how to record a sound longer
than your actual computer memory can hold).

I am not sure whether I would need such a feature for HyperStudio, it
sounds a bit ridiculous (what would you need that for?) but, it has to
be possible.

What I am suggesting is:  if anyone is interested they should contact
Roger Wagner directly and try to find out how they can do it!  If it can
be incorporated into HyperStudio, then it should definitely be able to
exist as a stand alone program!

Good Luck

Michael Heintz
mkheintz@vela.acs.oakland.edu