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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Amiga Sound files
Message-ID: <237@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Aug-86 19:35:11 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  1 19:35:11 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 2-Aug-86 10:13:26 EDT
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Keywords: Is there an ALBM format for sound?

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Hi,

First, Thanks to Carolyn at C-A for posting the nice demos about
how to manipulate IFF and ALBM files from AmigaBasic-- that sure
saved me much dogwork on a project that I had to get done fast.

Looking at the ALBM file format led me to wonder about file formats
for sounds.  Are there any standards yet?  It would be handy if the
sound format resembled the video ALBM, except contianed an FMAP
chunk instead of CMAP and an SBIT instead of ABIT chuck.

I just made that up, FMAP for "filter map" being analogous to CMAP
for "color map" and SBIT for the sound byte image being analogous
to ABIT for the bit plane data.

If anybody knows about the specs for sound files, could you post
them.  I heard that IFF countains a spec for sound, but have not
gotten my IFF docs disk yet.

Thanks,

Bill Mayhew
Division of Basic Medical Sciences
Northeastern Ohio Universities' College of Medicine
Roootstown, Ohio  44272  USA      (216) 325-2511

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