On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Glenn Saunders wrote:
>
> On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, kickass wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to play a bin straight from the bin on the amiga, rather
> > than having to convert it to a wav and play it from the wav?
> >
> > (I have an a1000 & a500 in my game room, and it would be great to be able
> > to use them as a 'server' for my 2600 system, so I can retire some of my
> > cart collection.)
>
> There is a way to set up a filetype with DirOpus to do this kind of thing.
> Do you have Directory Opus? The new version is kinda a hog but the older
> version should run on an A500 with scant memory.
>
> For some reason I've been having some weird problems with Makewav related
> to it parsing input vs. output filenames. I wish Makewav could be altered
> so that it used an output filename flag like unix commands (-o) which
> would probably solve things.
>
> Nevertheless, I figured out a way to get it to consistently generate WAVs
> via DirOpus, play via Play16, then clean up after itself which results in
> transparent BIN loading on a doubleclick within Directory Opus.
I have bunches of different dir opus's. If you could find a way to get
the text for the button macro out and post it, that would be great!
Thanks, there is hope!
Zilla
KDK
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