Re: playing music from GS games

[Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com>]

Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
> Is the music stored in the resource fork of the program?
> 
> Many game creators considered the music--and its format--
> to be proprietary, so it might not be straightforward.

The game runs under ProDOS 8, with what appear to be instrument definitions
in the "INST" folder and music in the "SMUS" folder.  I'm guessing it's a
fairly custom player, especially with Will Harvey as an author.

The files bear a slight resemblance to Music Construction Set GS files,
though they have different file types.  You *might* be able to get them
to work.

> If the sound effects occur at times unsynchronized with
> the music, then a little cut-and-paste in a wave editor
> starting with multiple recordings should do the job.
> (Hey, you didn't expect it to be easy, did you?  ;-)

Only for digital output, which you should be able to capture with
something like Total Recorder when running Zany Golf in a IIgs emulator
like KEGS.

The output from a good emulator, captured by a sound driver, should be
better than an analog capture from a IIgs.  The only trick is to make
sure that the output from the emulator matches the actual hardware.

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