Caltech and Ground (was .... convert Mac to Apple // files)

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In article <Edina1996Nov1.201833.12877@oasis.idirect.com.compulink.com>,
misty@idirect.com (Sid Stulberg) writes:

>
>Thanks John: EXACTLY my problem and the solutions offered by Tom Turley
>and Nathan Mates do not work. (sob).
>
>

    Evidently, some of the stuff which gets to popular ftp sites is
corrupted in some way. This does not seem to happen very often. Caltech
and Ground are very good resources which have supplied me with quite a few
very useful wares-- all with no problem.

     One recent exception is Defender of the World. After downloading, the
.shk file was run through GSHK to unpack the files. One of these was
corrupted.

     Fortunately, it was a file named "DOTWINTRO.W"-- well, not all that
fortunate, a better choice would have been the "SamplePics" folder.
DOTWINTRO.W is a kind of instrument sounds file used by the intro song

    The rest of the files unpacked okay; and, the messed up wave file was
replaced by swapping-in one used in the old DOTW non-playing demo (I think
it's named "BREATHLESS.W") and renaming it. The Intro Song, at least,
plays; and the game looks great!  (Thanks, Apple2.Caltech!)
      

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