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From: rap@peck.ardent.com (Rob Peck)
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Subject: Re: Iffparse.library (was Re: IFF to C util wanted)
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Date: 28 Sep 89 16:52:10 GMT
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In article <4719@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> nsw@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (Neil Weinstock) writes:
>In article <125371@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>>For sound stuff I haven't got a clue. Maybe you would whip something up
>Speaking of which, has iffparse.library ever been released in any form?
>I haven't seen it, nor have either of the two perpetrators been much in
>evidence on the net lately...



I had planned to do an article for Amiga World about this, but I spoke
to Leo and he told me it has not yet been released.  Something about
not properly preserving A6 or whatever and it needs some more work.  I
am sure that you'll be hearing more about it.  Meantime, there is
supposed to be some kinda IFF library from a source in Switzerland on
a recent fish disk,  circa 186 or so.  It may or may not be the "latest"
one ... had heard that one released version had some bugs but dont
know what they were.

To look at the parsing of an 8SVX sound file, (sampled sound with no
loopback, that is.. produced by Audiomaster II) look for my article
in Compute's Amiga Resource, the most recent issue, that has a title
on the front relating to 277 User Groups listed.  I think the cover
has a Maestro on it.  The source code there plays a sampled sound,
"Hello World" (not MY voice, but that of one of the editors).  The
source code there parses the file down to the point of finding the
actual data to send to the audio device.  A programmer with only a
little experience could probably figure out how to dump this into
a data structure that could be understood by his C program.

Rob Peck