The Apple IIgs Stereo WAV Test Program

Here is the program I hacked together to play 8 bit, stereo WAV files on a
IIgs so that people can hear the difference between the mono play back of
Oversampler and a player that can play true stereo samples. This is only a
hack and therefore doesn't work all that well but it does demonstrate my
point. This is v0.1 of the program is public domain. Future versions may
not be public domain.

The StereoTest.BXY archive contains both the GSoft BASIC source file
(StereoTest.bas) and a standalone executable (StereoTest) that can be
launch from a launcher such as the Finder. Don't forget that there is a
free version of GSoft BASIC available for download from the Byteworks web
page.

 Requirements:                      Recommended:

 * Apple IIgs computer              * Accelerated Apple IIgs computer
 * System Software v5.04            * System Software v6.01
 * 1.125 MB RAM                     * 4 - 8 MB RAM

Notes:

   * The load routines are extremely slow. It can take 30 minutes to load a
     1 MB sample. As the program was written in GSoft BASIC, this could be
     improved in the future if I ever feel like upgrading this program.

   * Unlike Oversampler, this program must load the entire WAV file into
     memory so the size of the WAV file you can play is limited by the
     amount of free RAM in your system.

   * The program has no user interface to speak of. It just asks you to
     type in a pathname to a WAV file.

   * There is little error checking done so the program might crash. Use at
     your own risk. Not that I think there is much risk of anything bad
     happening.

Program written by Jeff Blakeney <jblakeney@delphi.com>
Dean of the Apple II University in the A2Pro forum of the Delphi online service