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              *       WAVEST v1.12       *
              * by STGHOST of SECTOR ONE *
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I/ What is this ?
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   WaveST is a WAV-file player for Atari computers. It can play sound
on STF, STE, Falcon and probably on clones likes Medusa or Hades if their
_SND cookie is correctly set. It is a TTP program.

   This player is based on Wave030 and WaveSTE: I wanted a single program,
and I was asked a STF support...what I did, but that was not enough: why
not adding some options ?


II/ The commandline
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   This player allows several options that can be added to the commandline
which are:
  -with or without looping the sample
     default: loop on
     option: l
  -with or without text display (quiet mode)
     default: display on
     option: q
  -use or not dsp on Falcon
     default: dsp on
     option: d
  -clock select on Falcon
     default: internal falcon clock
     option: c0 for all falcon frequencies (incl. STE ones)
             c1 external 44.1KHz clock (CD)
             c2 external 48KHz clock (DAT)
             c3 STE frequencies only
  Note: in case of external clock, the internal ones can still be used if
       it fits with the sample frequency.

   The commandline has the following form:
file -options
 where file is the location of the file and option is the option-list. The
file-location can be relative to the current directory or absolute. The '-'
sign has to be used once for all options, not for each one...There must be
only 1 space between the file field and the '-' sign.

  Examples (between ""):
"d:\sounds\guignols\akesalut.wav" -> plays this file with default options.
"samples\beat.wav -l" -> plays once the beat file in the directory sample,
which is in the current directory
"music -qd" -> plays music.wav (note that .wav is automatically added if no
extension specified, put a "." to indicate that there is no extension) with
no display and without dsp if it is run on a Falcon.

   It is also possible to install this program as an application for .WAV
files...


III/ Is it really powerful ?
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   It can play 16 bits stereo samples as well on STF, STE and Falcon...
Of course, you can't have stereo on STF nor 16 bits on STE but it plays
all the datas at all frequencies: there is a frequency interpolation on
all machines, including STF...
   On STF, the replay is at 12.8KHz and it mixes right and left voices
of stereo samples either with 8 or 16 bits quality. The shadow-registers
are not used so it is compatible with Falcon, and it should work well on
Hades too...
   As the original programs (wave030 and waveste) were working with Magic
and Multitos, I bet this one does too ! However, they consume a lot of
time as they are not made especially for this (it wouldn't be in text mode
else !).
   I have added support for parallel port cards with a replay at 38.4KHz
(this is for Hades users because they don't have dma sound - PSND cookie).

   With the new version, correction of small problem with or without DSP.

IV/ Miscellaneous
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   If you use this program regularly, please send me some money if you want
me to continue coding stuff for Atari compatible computers...(no cash please)
   Contact me at this address:
        HUGUET Denis
        104 bis Avenue du General de Gaulle
        18500 Mehun sur Yevre
        FRANCE
   Please contact me if you want to use my program in any commercial stuff!




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