Ryan Verner requested it, and I've been playing around<br>
with it for a while, but it's now in usuable BETA form. You can<br>
pick it up at my website below. It is currently in a usuable form<br>
for both Qbasic and Turbo Basic, and it probably wouldn't take much<br>
modification to work for other basics.<br>
The library plays WAV files up to 65300 bytes long, 8-bit, mono<br>
on all SB-compatable cards, at either 11025,22050, or 44100 Hz. speeds.<br>
It's free, so if you're interested, just pick it up, it's under the<br>
"Turbo Basic" section on my homepage.<p>
P.S: If I get enough requests, I'll add unlimited size support and<br>
continous play...


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: Ryan Verner requested it, and I've been playing around<br>
: with it for a while, but it's now in usuable BETA form. You can<br>
: pick it up at my website below. It is currently in a usuable form<br>
: for both Qbasic and Turbo Basic, and it probably wouldn't take much<br>
: modification to work for other basics.<br>
: The library plays WAV files up to 65300 bytes long, 8-bit, mono<br>
: on all SB-compatable cards, at either 11025,22050, or 44100 Hz. speeds.<br>
: It's free, so if you're interested, just pick it up, it's under the<br>
: "Turbo Basic" section on my homepage.<p>
: P.S: If I get enough requests, I'll add unlimited size support and<br>
: continous play...<p>
Is this WAV player use DMA??? Because I want to play WAV file and I can still<br>
do other things at the same time.

Yes, it uses DMA, so after the couple of cycles it takes to <br>
execute the SB_Play function, you can do whatever you want to<br>
while the WAV is playing.<p>
<p>



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: Yes, it uses DMA, so after the couple of cycles it takes to <br>
: execute the SB_Play function, you can do whatever you want to<br>
: while the WAV is playing.<p>
How about IRQ???? Because most of the game need to play multiple<br>
WAV file at the same time. And have you ever heard DMAplay 6.0???<br>
how is yours compare to DMAPlay 6.0??<p>

No, I've never heard of DMAPlay6.0, if you could give me a link<br>
to it, I'd appreciate it. As for using the IRQ, I detect it but do not<br>
use it, as my routine automatically overlaps the sounds. This is, of<br>
course, provided they are actually long enough to make a difference...<br>
The main reason I coded this lib (I'm not a BASIC programmer, it's almost<br>
all in ASM) is that it was requested by someone who couldn't find a WAV<br>
player that played WAVs over 32000 bytes in length. My lib plays sound<br>
65300 byte files.<br>
As for continous play, I do that via interrupt hooks in the full Pascal<br>
version of this same library. To see an example of that, there is a demo<br>
using that version at the below link.<br>
As mentioned in the docs for it, I'll add unlimited file size support <br>
and background play if there's a demand for it. If there's already a product<br>
doing that for QBASIC/Turbo Basic, I really don't see the point in<br>
duplicating their work...


URL:http://acheronx.ml.org/ukpub/demo.zip

I think you can download here. I think it's the first DMAPlay program ever made <br>
in QB. And it has different version. DMAPlay 6.0 is the latest version. <p>
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~horie/project.html<br>

<PRE><br>
I downloaded both DMAPlay 6 and another player called WavPlay, and <br>
compared them to BasPlay. Here's the results:<p>
BasPlay DMAPlay WavPlay<br>
DMA playing capability x x x<br>
IRQ required x x<br>
Supports older BASICs x <br>
Recording Options x x<br>
Maximum File Size 65300 none none<br>
Memory Buffer 65300 32000 7058<br>
File I/O ASM BASIC BASIC<br>
SB Interface ASM BASIC BASIC<br>
Port detect via hardware x <br>
Volume Adjust x<br>
Fixed memory segment x <p>
Note that playing for files over their buffer size is done<br>
via the slow BASIC file I/O, buffering whenever the info is<br>
need. DMAPlay claims it will run under GW-BASIC "with a few<br>
small changes..." I don't think that's actually true, as I<br>
don't remember GW-BASIC having OUT and INP.<br>
Anyway, that's my attempt at an unbiased review... If you<br>
have any comments, questions, just post or mail me at the<br>
above address.<br>
</PRE><p>



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I've downloaded your BASpaly. Well, I don't know to run it or port it into QuickBasic. <br>
Could you tell me??? And the "tbst.exe"(compiled by Turnbobasic) file you included, can't<br>
run it. I can only hear static noise from my Sound Blaster PRO.

Well, it is listed as the beta version... ;)<p>
Currently, BasPlay suffers from a rather tricky bug, one<br>
which I spend the last 4 hours isolating, but haven't quite<br>
fixed yet. If you run in in the environment (i.e. QBASIC,<br>
Turbo Basic, QuickBasic 4.5..) it'll run fine. However, for<br>
some bizarre reason as an EXE it doesn't function.<br>
I've currently isolated it to the SBPlay function, and <br>
I'll post here as soon as I've irradicated the bug.<br>



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Are you still working on your Basplay now??? If so how is it?? Or do you have a QB version??<br>
I just want to know.

Well... I have refined it a bit since the version posted on my web site...<br>
However, I haven't solved the vital problem of getting it to work since<br>
I last posted. I used the pure assembly code, simulated the BASIC code part<br>
of it, and assembled it... The damn thing worked like a charm...<br>
I'm really at the end of my rope here... If you want the code or<br>
know someone that does, I'll give it all to you, since I really don't think<br>
it's very useful in it's current form, and I just don't have the hours to<br>
play around with it.<br>



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