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From: robertw@informix.com (Robert Weinberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Playing Long Sounds in Hypercard
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.144746.4843@informix.com>
Date: 16 Apr 91 14:47:46 GMT
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In article <1991Apr16.113337.4880@cs.utk.edu> EJN@ornl.gov (Earl Nall) writes:
>A sound resource in Hypercard can only be 32K same as a field size.  
>However, the other night I saw an Apple salesman demonstrating a multimedia stack that  had long sounds.  
> 
>I ask him how he overcame the 32K barrier and his response was that he 
>wasn't aware there was that barrier.  
>

I don't know the answer either. I used to "obey" the 32K limit - then
I found I could put much longer sounds into a stack, simply as
usual sound resources, to be played with the usual HyperTalk command
syntax. Perhaps the barrier was broken at some development level
within HC 1.x, and when I got the newer version, the barrier disappeared.
Anyway, I also am no longer aware of the barrier.
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