Sound1 Windows/SoundBlaster VOC Sound Player Copyright (c) 1991
              Great White North Technologies (Software Division)
               4467 Densmore Rd, Victoria B.C. Canada, V8X-3X1

This program is currently being destributed as a Shareware program, new
versions will continue to be distributed on this basis as long as we recieve
comments, and registrations from users.

The suggested Registration fee is $10, or whatever you think its worth.  The
more you send, the more likely we are to send you other programs, and updates.

Please send somthing, even if its just a comment, or bug report.

If you would like the source code, request it with your registration, and
include a few extra bucks for the disk and postage.
The program is writen in Visual Basic, and includes the Declaration statements
and message handling routines required to deal with the sound DLL, that was
intended only to be used by C programmers.

Notes on SOUND1.EXE Ver 1.0

Sound1 is a digitized sound player/recorder for use with Microsoft Windows 3.0,
and the SoundBlaster Card.

This program requires two other files (provided seperately) to run.  They are;
SNDBLST.DLL (SNDBLST.ZIP) and
VBRUN100.DLL (VBRUN100.ZIP)

If your SoundBlaster software is very new, you will already have SNDBLST.DLL,
if you do not, then get it from the same place you got this program, or from
Creative Labs.

The operation of the program is fairly simple.  Add the program to one of your
Program Manager groups, make shure the two DLL files are in the Windows
directory, then start the program from the icon.

When the window appears, check that the DLL Version number is 1.0 or later.
If N/A appears, then the SoundBlaster DLL could not locate or identify your
sound card.  If this happens, you may have altered the default Port, IRQ, or
DMA settings on your SB card.  If so, edit the [SoundBlaster] section of your
WIN.INI file.

To select a file to play, either type in the name of a VOC file, or use the
file selection menu item to choose from a list of files. (Hint: Place the
Sound1.EXE file in the same directory as your VOC files.)

Once you have a file name, you can play the file by selecting the Play Button,
or record a new file with the record Button.  Be careful not to record over a
existing file that you want to keep.

Once you have started playing, or recording a sound, the Pause, and Stop
buttons will be enabled as appropriate. During sound Playback, or recording,
you can switch away from the program, and run other windows programs.  Because
of the way Windows dosen't handle multi-tasking of windows programs, Recording
in the background is not advised, and playback can pause if programs running in
the forground do not release the CPU about once per second.  If this program
ran under OS/2 this would not be a problem, but until Microsoft fixes Windows
to use Pre-emptive multitasking for Windows programs You'll just have to live
with it. (Hint, Hint Bill!)

If you want to build a list of files to play, you can select the Album option
on the menu.  This will show a window allowing you to build lists of sounds to
play.  You can also save the contents of these lists to disk, and they will
automatically be loaded next time you run the program.

In the main window, the Album Play, and Stop buttons, with the Random, and
Repeat check boxes.  These only affect the Play of an album.