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From: elliott@veronica.cs.wisc.edu (James Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: How can I have an HC stack check if it's running from a hard disk?
Summary: The good old sound driver/floppy access conflict
Message-ID: <1991Apr13.181917.20797@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 13 Apr 91 18:19:17 GMT
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I have a HyperCard stack I'm creating as an entry for a contest, which
makes intensive use of sampled sounds. I would like to have it test to
see if it is being run from a floppy and warn the user that
performance will be miserable if that happens to be the case (because
floppy access mangles sound output horribly). How can I do this?

I'm willing to write an XCMD if someone can point me in the right
direction. If there's an easier way, though, I'd like to use it.

--
Jim Elliott		      "Like a bridge he'll come between us, not a wall"
elliott@veronica.cs.wisc.edu