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Re: Mac sound on level 2
Posted By: tohDate: 12/31/00 1:26 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Mac sound on level 2 (toh)

: The sound you describe is what you'd get if the embedded music track is in
: little-endian .wav format in the PC demo .dat file. The Mac version would
: probably be in big-endian AIFF format (AIFF can actually handle things
: either way - it's a more flexible format than .wav - but it would save
: playback time to store the samples big-endian). It's also possible that
: there's just raw sound data in there (16-bit, 22 or 44kHz little endian)
: with no header or a custom header, but I find that much less likely.

Now that I think about it, the fact that the music comes out the wrong end (ie. staticky) is an indication that it *is* in a raw or custom format. If it were in .wav or AIFF format, the endianness would already be accounted for (bonks self on head for missing this earlier). So there's probably a big stretch of 16-bit music and ambient sound segments in the .raw file (or another, but that would be my guess) that just needs to be byteswapped. I might try chopping out chunks of the level 1 or 4 file and trying to play them as raw data to test the theory.

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Replies:

Mac sound on level 2Twrch 12/29/00 9:45 a.m.
     Re: Mac sound on level 2Joshua Curtiss 12/29/00 1:11 p.m.
     Re: Mac sound on level 2toh 12/29/00 3:03 p.m.
           Re: Mac sound on level 2VirtualWolf 12/29/00 11:25 p.m.
                 Re: Mac sound on level 2toh 12/30/00 12:07 a.m.
           Re: Mac sound on level 2toh 12/31/00 1:26 p.m.
                 Re: Mac sound on level 2Daniel Currie 12/31/00 9:14 p.m.
                 Re: Mac sound on level 2snaptogrid 1/1/01 6:39 p.m.
                       Re: Mac sound on level 2BJP 1/1/01 9:06 p.m.
                             Re: Mac sound on level 2Twrch 1/2/01 7:13 a.m.
                                   OniTools! Whoa!BJP 1/2/01 8:15 p.m.
                                   Re: Mac sound on level 2BananaFish 1/2/01 10:59 p.m.
                                         Endian-nessMichael Spencer 1/3/01 12:45 a.m.



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