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ArtToSpr/WavePlayer/Help/TextHelp/3-Formats

This website contains an archive of files for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Acorn Archimedes, Commodore 16 and Commodore 64 computers, which Dominic Ford has rescued from his private collection of floppy disks and cassettes.

Some of these files were originally commercial releases in the 1980s and 1990s, but they are now widely available online. I assume that copyright over them is no longer being asserted. If you own the copyright and would like files to be removed, please contact me.

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+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                                WAVE PLAYER                                |
|                          � 1997, Matthew Wilson                           |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                            RECOGNISED  FORMATS                            |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+

The following formats are automatically recognised:

+----------+-----------------+-----------+----------------------------------+
| FILETYPE |      NAME       |   TYPE    |              NOTES               |
+----------+-----------------+-----------+----------------------------------+
|   D3C    | Armadeus        | 8 M Lin S |                                  |
|   CB5    | Tracker         | 8 M Log S | Assumed to be 8400Hz             |
|   CB5    | Desktop Tracker | 8 M Log S | Same filetype as above           |
|   ED0    | DSEdit          | 8 M Lin U | Assumed to be 20833Hz            |
|   38D    | SuperSonic      | any 8-bit | WP�s ancestor�s filetype         |
|   FB1    | MS WAV          | any       | ADPCM (at al) cannot be played   |
+----------+-----------------+-----------+----------------------------------+

Key:    8 - 8-bit samples
        M - mono
        Lin - linear
        Log - logarithmic
        S - signed
        U - unsigned

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*
00000040  2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d  2d 2d 2d 2d 2b 0a 7c 20  |------------+.| |
00000050  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |                |
00000060  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 57  |               W|
00000070  41 56 45 20 50 4c 41 59  45 52 20 20 20 20 20 20  |AVE PLAYER      |
00000080  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |                |
00000090  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 7c 0a 7c 20 20 20  |          |.|   |
000000a0  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |                |
000000b0  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 a9  20 31 39 39 37 2c 20 4d  |       . 1997, M|
000000c0  61 74 74 68 65 77 20 57  69 6c 73 6f 6e 20 20 20  |atthew Wilson   |
000000d0  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |                |
000000e0  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  7c 0a 2b 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d  |        |.+-----|
000000f0  2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d  2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d  |----------------|
*
00000130  2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2b 0a  7c 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |------+.|       |
00000140  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |                |
00000150  20 20 20 20 20 52 45 43  4f 47 4e 49 53 45 44 20  |     RECOGNISED |
00000160  20 46 4f 52 4d 41 54 53  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  | FORMATS        |
00000170  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |                |
00000180  20 20 20 20 7c 0a 2b 2d  2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d  |    |.+---------|
00000190  2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d  2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d  |----------------|
*
000001d0  2d 2d 2b 0a 0a 54 68 65  20 66 6f 6c 6c 6f 77 69  |--+..The followi|
000001e0  6e 67 20 66 6f 72 6d 61  74 73 20 61 72 65 20 61  |ng formats are a|
000001f0  75 74 6f 6d 61 74 69 63  61 6c 6c 79 20 72 65 63  |utomatically rec|
00000200  6f 67 6e 69 73 65 64 3a  0a 0a 2b 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d  |ognised:..+-----|
00000210  2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2b 2d 2d  2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d  |-----+----------|
00000220  2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2b  2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d  |-------+--------|
00000230  2d 2d 2d 2b 2d 2d 2d 2d  2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d  |---+------------|
00000240  2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d  2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d  |----------------|
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00000260  50 45 20 7c 20 20 20 20  20 20 4e 41 4d 45 20 20  |PE |      NAME  |
00000270  20 20 20 20 20 7c 20 20  20 54 59 50 45 20 20 20  |     |   TYPE   |
00000280  20 7c 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  | |              |
00000290  4e 4f 54 45 53 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |NOTES           |
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000002b0  2d 2b 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d  2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d  |-+--------------|
000002c0  2d 2d 2d 2b 2d 2d 2d 2d  2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2b  |---+-----------+|
000002d0  2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d  2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d  |----------------|
*
000002f0  2d 2d 2b 0a 7c 20 20 20  44 33 43 20 20 20 20 7c  |--+.|   D3C    ||
00000300  20 41 72 6d 61 64 65 75  73 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  | Armadeus       |
00000310  20 7c 20 38 20 4d 20 4c  69 6e 20 53 20 7c 20 20  | | 8 M Lin S |  |
00000320  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |                |
*
00000340  7c 0a 7c 20 20 20 43 42  35 20 20 20 20 7c 20 54  ||.|   CB5    | T|
00000350  72 61 63 6b 65 72 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 7c  |racker         ||
00000360  20 38 20 4d 20 4c 6f 67  20 53 20 7c 20 41 73 73  | 8 M Log S | Ass|
00000370  75 6d 65 64 20 74 6f 20  62 65 20 38 34 30 30 48  |umed to be 8400H|
00000380  7a 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 7c 0a  |z             |.|
00000390  7c 20 20 20 43 42 35 20  20 20 20 7c 20 44 65 73  ||   CB5    | Des|
000003a0  6b 74 6f 70 20 54 72 61  63 6b 65 72 20 7c 20 38  |ktop Tracker | 8|
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00000420  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 7c 0a 7c 20 20 20  |          |.|   |
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00000460  73 74 6f 72 91 73 20 66  69 6c 65 74 79 70 65 20  |stor.s filetype |
00000470  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  7c 0a 7c 20 20 20 46 42  |        |.|   FB|
00000480  31 20 20 20 20 7c 20 4d  53 20 57 41 56 20 20 20  |1    | MS WAV   |
00000490  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 7c  20 61 6e 79 20 20 20 20  |       | any    |
000004a0  20 20 20 7c 20 41 44 50  43 4d 20 28 61 74 20 61  |   | ADPCM (at a|
000004b0  6c 29 20 63 61 6e 6e 6f  74 20 62 65 20 70 6c 61  |l) cannot be pla|
000004c0  79 65 64 20 20 20 7c 0a  2b 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d  |yed   |.+-------|
000004d0  2d 2d 2d 2b 2d 2d 2d 2d  2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d  |---+------------|
000004e0  2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2b 2d 2d  2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d  |-----+----------|
000004f0  2d 2b 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d  2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d  |-+--------------|
00000500  2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d  2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d  |----------------|
00000510  2d 2d 2d 2d 2b 0a 0a 4b  65 79 3a 20 20 20 20 38  |----+..Key:    8|
00000520  20 2d 20 38 2d 62 69 74  20 73 61 6d 70 6c 65 73  | - 8-bit samples|
00000530  0a 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 4d 20 2d 20 6d 6f 6e  |.        M - mon|
00000540  6f 0a 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 4c 69 6e 20 2d 20  |o.        Lin - |
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00000560  6f 67 20 2d 20 6c 6f 67  61 72 69 74 68 6d 69 63  |og - logarithmic|
00000570  0a 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 53 20 2d 20 73 69 67  |.        S - sig|
00000580  6e 65 64 0a 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 55 20 2d 20  |ned.        U - |
00000590  75 6e 73 69 67 6e 65 64  0a 0a                    |unsigned..|
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