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From: howard@kcl-cs.UUCP (JR Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ReMac
Message-ID: <2062@xenon.kcl-cs.UUCP>
Date: 20 Feb 91 14:41:37 GMT
References: <1991Feb19.053250.25352@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: Department of Computing, King's College London
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In article <1991Feb19.053250.25352@midway.uchicago.edu> mss2@quads.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer) writes:
>I recently downloaded Remac from wustl.wuarchive.edu, a program
>which reads Macintosh sound files.  It has four different speeds,
>each of which is necessary for some sound files.  I find it
>works fine, except that if I use the fastest speed (22 kHz), the
>computer crashes, Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work, and I have to turn
>the computer off.  I have a Zenith ZF-158 8Mhz XT compatible,
>and memory resident programs normally running include a mouse
>driver, explosiv (a screen saver), f-prot (virus protection), and
>TopDos.  Does anyone have any idea why the program only crashes
>at 22 Mhz, or better yet, a solution?
>

Don't ask me why, but this occurs if your taking any of the computer up with
excessive background processes.  In my case, remac fails badly if QEMM is
running.  Little time seems to be granted to REMAC, it slows/speeds up and
continuously loops until I turn off the computer (Keyboard INTs shutdown).  If
the virus thing is background and chugs constantly looking for trouble - I'll
pick this.

REMAC or REMAC2 to be exact (no hiss on my SX) is dead good - and now I have
a suite of MAC utils I constantly raid the MAC servers, however I have a
problem.  Some of the MAC stuff is a number of samples made into one, 'beeps'
highlight's this best - is there either a sample editor for the PC or better
still, a set of REMAC object file calls that will allow a users program
to send a data ptr+long int size to the play routines.  If there isn't
REMACs author should release some - otherwise I'll have to put my sticky
hands into the pie.

JR