PSSJ Digital Sound Toolkit - Part 00 of 17 +
Frank Durda IV
only got a couple parts of this package. (News delivery in North
Texas is flakey at best.) If after this repost you are still
missing parts, please send me EMAIL at
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and I will EMAIL them to you directly. Any other address may take
15 days to reach me.
Please do not place this material on a FTP or WWW server. I will
take care of this at the next release. This is a BETA version.
Thanks.
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Arriving shortly in comp.sys.tandy is the first widely-distributed release
of the PSSJ Digital Sound Toolkit. It contains a collection of
library functions and sample programs that operate the built-in sound
hardware that is present in the following Tandy Computers:
1000SL 1000TL 1000SL/2
1000TL/2 1000TL/3 1000RL
1000RL/2 1000RLX 2500
2500SX Sensation I* PSSJ Plug-in card**
*Playback-only on the Sensation I.
**Very rare, not many were made.
and probably one or two others I have forgotten to mention.
If the system came with the Deskmate MUSIC and SOUND programs,
and was manufactured in 1988 or later, the PSSJ Digital Sound Toolkit
software should work. (Deskmate is not needed to use this product.)
Included in the demo programs is an utility that will record sound
continuously for over an hour, assuming you have enough disk space.
Then another utility will play the sound back, directly from disk.
The functions that perform this can be put into other applications
and will run in background, allowing the application to do other
things, like run the video as part of a game.
This package includes source code, compiled binaries and documentation
in three different formats.
Since this code currently runs only on Tandy systems, comp.sys.tandy appears
to be the best place to put it. Although packages aren't commonly posted
in comp.sys.tandy these days, it used to be the case and it is not against
the group charter (if anyone remembers back to the days of net.*), so I
hope it won't distress anybody.
Please refer to the README file (in Part01) and the manual pages
INTRO.N, INTRO.PS or INTRO.CAT for information on what all the pieces
are and how to install them. The complete package once uncompressed
takes up about 1.6Meg, and most of that is documentation. You will
need PKUNZIP and a UUDECODEr to recover the binaries and formatted
documentation.
The PSSJ Digital Sound Toolkit is a remote descendant of the Tandy
Digital Sound Library (TDSL) that Tandy distributed on-and-off between
1988 and 1990. Tandy released the TDSL code to the public domain in
early 1993. The TDSL and PDST are not compatible with one another.
(No, you don't need TDSL or Deskmate to use this package.)
Please send any questions or comments to the address below. This
is considered a Beta release although the code has been stable for
months and in some cases, years. Enjoy!
Frank Durda IV <uhc...@nemesis.lonestar.org>|"The Knights who say "LETNi"
or uhclem%nem...@trsvax.ast.com (Internet)| demand... A SEGMENT REGISTER!!!"
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