Sound Scavenger V1.0
By Bryan Smart

From Warp Zero (September, 1993)

This program is herebye placed in the Public Domain.  If you want to charge
someone a million dollars for it, then good luck.

Install Stuff
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Well, its a system file.  Copy it some place you'd like it, and launch it from
the Finder or whatever.

What's It For
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Well, you ever got some FTA or other DOSless demos and here a digitized sample
on them and said "Would I ever love to have that sound on my hard drive to
impress my friends with?"  Well if so, you're going to be dying to load up
Scavenger.

When you start it up, the program will let you see who you should thank and
worship for this program, and will prompt you to insert a 3.5 disk.  Pop one in
your first 3.5 drive and press return.  People shouldn't be spoiled by GS/OS. 
This is how real coders write.  The program will start reading the disk, and
will search for a waveform.

When the program finds a sequence of grouped data terminating with a zero
(Trust me it works,) it will play it and show you a menu.  You select an option
by pressing the letter in []s.  Make sure the capslock is down.

Play 
This plays the sound again unless you missed it.  The program will play the
sound at a sampling rate that will work for most files.  Arround 8KHZ.

Amiga
If you're scanning disks with Amiga format files on them such as an Amiga
demo/game you extracted, and you hear what sounds like a sound effect
distorted, choosing this will process the waveform through the sound chip like
on the Amiga, playing the sound correctly.

Next
This searches for the next block of probable waveform data.  This function can
sometimes take up to a minute...watch your disk drive.

Save
This lets you save the current sound in the play buffer to a file in raw binary
format.  You can then convert the file using AudioZAP, Digital Sessions, or
whatever, to another format.

Quit
Dumps the play buffer, and exits via the ProDOS quit call to the previous p8 or
GS/OS launcher.

Comments
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When the program thinks it finds waves, it mostly finds programs and text. 
These will play as garbage sounding samples.  Just press N to go on.

If you hear part of the sample you want, better save it and clean it up with a
wave editor.  The program will skip over it completely on the next press of N. 
You will RARELY extract a sample with Scavenger that is perfect (With no
clicking at either the beginning or end.)


If you can think of something really useful for Scavenger, let me know.  Don't
say you want Hyper Studio, ACE, and all that because its not worth the code. 
If you can think of something really practical, then let me know.

Bryan Smart
359 South Buckhorn Road
Greenville, SC 29609
(803) 244-3938 5-10 P.M. during the week