Re: IISound plays WAVs!!

[jlee@ics.uci.edu (Orion Pax)]

brian hammack (BRIAN.HAMMACK@rook.wa.com) wrote:
: I got personal email from Philip Lamb today answering my question
: whether the coming version of IISounds will play WAV files or have a
: translator (there are WAV <=> Mac translators in the PC world).  Well,
: after he'd said that a WAV was just data with a header, I downloaded a
: WAV and...  by dang, IISounds v3 plays WAV files!!!  Add this to your
: docs, all -- you can play Windoze WAV files at the 22mHz setting.

: And whomever was compiling that "What Apples Can Do That PC's Do"
: list has something new to add (beside JPEGs and reading mail offline).

AudioZap can do this too for quite a while.  WAVs are basically raw 8-bit
sound samples with a header.  Any sound program that can play raw sounds
on a GS can play WAVs.  It made some people wonder why Windows HAD to have
a custom sound format when it not that much different from what exists. :)

Joseph
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