Because Scott Raney had absolutely no use for it and lied that sound channels and/or HC-like musical scripting couldn't be supported under Windows IIRC. And I'm still plenty steamed about that.
Modern PC games clearly support such a thing. Modern audio file formats clearly support such a thing (if you've ever played with, say, the ancient and deprecated Adobe SoundEdit you will see that differing sound file formats support differing levels of multiple simultaneous sound channels).. Raney simply couldn't be bothered. Which is a shame because he was clearly capable of making it happen. And certainly for the US$1,000 a license he was charging he could've been bothered with it. Judy http://revined.blogspot.com On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Richmond Mathewson <[email protected]>wrote: > > Judy Perry wrote: > > "Hopefully, *somebody* out there is working on a better solution (hint, > hint)!" > > Cracked open Hypercard with ResEdit and extracted the snd resource > 'Harpsichord'; reset its codes: sfil and movr; and couldn't get any > sound out of it at all. > > Must have gone wrong somewhere between ResEdit and Mac OS X. > > Of course, one could set up a whole piano-range of digitised sounds, > bung them in a stack and off-we-would-go: of course all those > play audioClip statements would get tedious . . . > > Also slowing down the duration of the sounds would distort the pitch . . . > > Frankly; the BEEP terms listed in the RunRev Documentation, if they > actually worked, would be perfect. I suppose these could be implemented ? > > I wonder why the Hypercard system for playing music was not carried > over to Metacard? > > sincerely, Richmond Mathewson. > > ____________________________________________________________ > > A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life > Cycle. > ____________________________________________________________ > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
