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Extract Mirror Illusion Key Clash Tester Race 2258 Ain't It Cool News Indexer Curve Stitch Millennium backdrop url2file
Version 1.74 1999/11/09 uploaded 2000/01/03
Version 1.75beta5 2001/02/21 uploaded 2001/02/21
PlayIt 1.67 or later also needs to be downloaded and installed as a system wide resource. It is not included with PlaySound anymore.
I've noticed some people are having trouble downloading PlaySound as this page has been updated but the old version has stayed in a cache and so the download link it still pointing at the older version, if you are getting 404 Page not found errors try reloading this page to get the latest version.
A program to play samples using Rick Hudson's PlayIt program, available from
his web site.
This includes files created from CD Audio tracks by AudioFS2.
PlaySound also now plays MP3 Audio files using Thomas Olsson's AMPlayer, included in the archive.
PlaySound now has a window with CD like controls, volume and position sliders and all sorts of other goodies.
PlaySound will recursively check (correctly now) directories for sound files. It will now play non raw data files that are filetyped as data, eg. Sun Audio.
It will also allow writing of Wave and MP3 text tags.
I've also uploaded a screen shot of PlaySound in action, it's a 140k PNG file. Note, this is bigger than the zip file!
If you can't read PNG files try this GIF screen shot
Or try this to choose the best version automatically, unless you're using some none compatible browser like Internet Explorer.
History for versions since 1.47.
A program to extract sections of a file, useful for extracting shorter samples from a large raw data sample. It is a command line program that has a frontend using Acorn's FrontEnd module.
The original Extract program was written by Ian Scott. See his web page Sounds Riscy
New version 1998/09/08
My game, Mirror Illusion. The aim is to get 5 of your
coloured counters in a row, click on Normal, Swap, Change or Move to select what
you want to do and then click where you wish to place the counter/counter to swap/move
You can only place counters on the bottom row and can't move/change a piece that
has just been placed. Either player can move the swap pieces.
You can move a piece along any horizontal, vertical or diagonal, jumping over as many pieces as you wish.
New version 1998/04/24
A small program to test whether you will get key clashes on a Risc PC (and any other 32bit Acorn computers although the layout will be wrong).
Press all the keys you want to use and if there are key clashes some of the keys will not appear.
New version, two of the keys were wrong, now fixed 1999/05/06
In the far future mankind had given up on fancy 3d racing games and everyone plays
"RACE 2258", this is your chance to beat them all with 260 years of practise, that
is of course if you also discover how to live that long.
Alternative story line: I was bored, wanted to play around with GameSuite and like
Micro Machines.
To record which version of the story you like the best please wait until 1st April
and press your finger on the screen on the version of your choice.
This is a very buggy, unfinished program. But it's fun.
A program to generate HTML indexes for Ain't It Cool News stories saved to disc. It is a command line program that has a frontend using Acorn's FrontEnd module.
New version 1998/09/08
A small BASIC program to create curve stitches and save them as sprites.
New version 1999/11/08
A program to create a millennium countdown backdrop is the style of the TV program Millennium.
New version 1999/11/08
A program to convert urls to filenames and run them, or open the directory they are in. Just drag the url bar from Fresco to url2file and the file will be run. Holding down Ctrl will open the directory the file is in.
First version 2000/06/11
Please report bugs/heap praise/send money/apotheosis to Mark Scholes
Disclaimer: Everything I say is a lie
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