Play HP 95LX (C) Copyright 1992 Diomidis Spinellis Permission to use, copy, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. This program provides a demonstration for the sound capabilities of the HP 95LX. For a quick demo just type test, which will run a batch file to play all the sound sample files. The play command takes three parameters. The first is the file name containing the sound samples as unsigned bytes. The second is the data rate. If not data rate is specified the default will be 8000 samples/sec. The third parameter is the number of times the sound will repeat. Its default value is one. I have provided some samples together with the distribution. You can find these and more sounds available via anonymous ftp on: clouso.crim.ca:/pub/sun-source/more_sounds emx.utexas.edu:/pub/mnt/source/sun/ss-audio/sounds faui43.informatik.uni-erlangen.de:/mounts/cyber/cyber/sounds/mudsounds star.cs.vu.nl:/sparcsounds tupac-amaru.informatik.rwth-aachen.de:/pub/sounds/soundfiles and other hosts. In order to convert the sound files from u-law to unsigned bytes you will need sound tools. These are available in executable format from: wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors3/garbo.uwasa.fi/sound/sox04.zip src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/ibmpc/wsmr-simtel20.army.mil/sound/sox4d.zip buizerd.cwi.nl:pub/sox4d.zip garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/sound/sox4d.zip and in source format from: bode.ee.ualberta.ca:/pub/newstuff/sox.tar.Z buizerd.cwi.nl:pub/sox.tar.Z vab02.larc.nasa.gov:/pub/old/sox_v1.6.tar I hope that you will enjoy this program. When I find time I will convert it to a device driver to change the standard 95LX beep sounds. Diomidis Spinellis