Re: SybthLab NDA player

[tribby@cup.hp.com (Dave Tribby)]

Scott Anderson (sander@edsi.plexus.COM) wrote:
> Yeah, unlike Desktracker, synthinit does not keep playing in other
> programs in the background.  As an NDA I could be run with the likes of
> Appleworks GS or GWIII...  How about this: make it a shell exe with no
> output..  :)  Just tossing silly ideas around for the fun of it.

> Scott Anderson
> that guy at hastur.cc.edu

Synthfile is a shell exe that will play synthLAB songs. Under GNO you
would say something like
	synthfile -p *.seq
and it would play all the MIDI Synth files ending in "seq". It prints
the name of the file, its size, and how long it will take to play. If you
don't want any output at all, just direct the output to a file (or
null device). I tried running it in the background under GNO
	synthfile -p *.seq > /ram5/list &
but the music stopped playing when I scheduled another foreground
program. I haven't been able to figure out why...

Complete ORCA/C source code is provided with synthfile, so an
experienced programmer could add graphic display, turn it into an NDA,
or whatever.

I uploaded it to GEnie (A2Pro), comp.binaries.apple2, and
cco.caltech.edu earlier this month.

Dave Tribby (tribby@cup.hp.com  GEnie: D.TRIBBY)
Hewlett-Packard Information Networks Division, Cupertino, California