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From: jellinghaus-robert@CS.YALE.EDU (Rob Jellinghaus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Sound Techniques
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Date: 10 Mar 88 02:49:08 GMT
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In article <2263@saturn.ucsc.edu> alibaba@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Alexander M. Rosenberg) writes:
>Beyond Dark Castle does something very neat with sound. I used a public
>domain program called Sound Leech to grab the sounds out of the file
>BDC Data A. SOUN ID 94 is the music from the title page. It is at 5.5kHz.
>The problem is, it sounds very tinny and mechanical. BDC does some manipulation
>to all its sounds when it plays them.

In an interview in MacWorld a couple of months ago, the president of
Silicon Beach said that all the sounds in Dark Castle would have taken
practically a full 800K disk if the authors hadn't come up with some
very sophisticated sound compression techniques.  That's the story;
they pack all the sounds and then unpack them to play them.  (They
also did some hacking to enable multiple sounds to overlay each other;
i.e. the waterfall and the "Ni-ni-ni-ni-ni!" sounds in Shield 3.)

I just wish Bill Atkinson would get a clue and grab these routines
for Hypercard.  Hypercard needs sound compression BAD.

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God, I wish Silicon Beach hadn't stopped making games...

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