Article 22771 of comp.sys.atari.st: Path: terminator!umich!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!cs325ec From: cs325ec@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: BELLTEST 2.0 at terminator... Message-ID: <16000039@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 6 Apr 90 09:38:21 GMT Lines: 88 Nf-ID: #N:ux1.cso.uiuc.edu:16000039:000:4071 Nf-From: ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!cs325ec Apr 6 00:21:00 1990 If anyone is interested... Belltest 2.0 is now available at terminator... belltst2.lzh. Doc follows. -- Greg BELLTEST 2.0 by Gregory Mathias Lemperle-Kerr (for use with NewBell V1.0 by Dan Wilga) BellTest pops up a dialog box with the options: 1.) FIND .SND - choose the .SND we are working with it's speed will be shown in the dialog box... see below. If it is not within 1-5 it defaults to 3. If none of the speeds light up... it's a bug... but a documented one,... so it's a feature. Select one before playing or else! 2.) 1-5 Select the speed to play at... after I wrote it, it turns out 5 is the same as 3... Dan? 3.) Speaker Play the sound, saving it's speed for future NewBell use. 4.) QUIT Quit the Tao Master's program. NOTES: NEWBELL.PRG is searched for in current directory, then in C:\AUTO, then in A:\AUTO. If it can't find it, it will let you know. (It won't work without it). Have fun... -- Greg P.S. an effort is made to save the screen if memory is available. if not, deal with a messy screen. (Since I don't know how to redirect output yet. If you know, e-mail to cs325ec@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu) VERSION 2.0 UPDATE: 1.) FIND .SND became LOAD .SND. 2.) Slider bar under speeds now adjusts speed in a wide variety of increments. Center of slider is normal speed (at load). As the slider moves to the right, the SND is sped up in proportion to x^2. As it moves to the left, it is slown down in the same way. Slider adjustments also affect the digitized snd file size. To the right, the file is shrunk, to the left it is expanded. This could be a great help, disk space and memory space wise. The .SND files sound as good at most of the speeds I've tried. So if a sound loads at 2 or 3, put it at one and speed it up with the slider. If the slider goes all the way to the right and it is still not fast enough, save it, load it and the slider will reposition at center. 3.) SAVE .SND: although the 1,2,3,4 & 5 sounds are saved when you play them (if the slider is at center), they are not saved when the slider is moved. To make your changes permanent click here. BE CAREFUL. **************************************************** Slider adjustments do change the file structure! **************************************************** Still PD... I think it's cool though. -- Greg P.S. If you slow down a speed with the slider, memory on small machines (1K or less) may become tight. I don't know, I have 2.5 meg, but a friend with a 1040 has had no problems as of yet. You'll be warned if there is a problem. I had an idiot friend of mine try it out, so it should be idiot proof now. He caused version 1.0 to crash by attempting to play without loading prior. :-) That's fixed now. As well as saving.