SoundWAV  from  New Eden MultiMedia

  SoundWAV is a program to select and randomly change Windows 3.1 System 
Sounds. It is fully compatible with sounds cards or Microsoft's PC Speaker
Driver.  SoundWAV operates very simply - using Windows system calls, it
changes the sound file names assigned in your WIN.INI file. Even the best
sound clips get boring if you don't change them regularly!

You have the option of  setting each of the seven System Sounds to:
  None        No sound file assigned.
  Fixed       The assigned file will be used, and not changed.
  Random      Swap sounds randomly each time Windows is started.
  Alphabetic  Swap sounds sequentially each time Windows is started.

SoundWAV comes with TEN MEGABYTES of FREE DIGITIZED SOUNDS!
  This zip file includes only three WAV files for error sounds:
     HAL: "It can only be attributable to human error."
     Obi Wan: "Use the force, Luke!"
     Humphrey Bogart: "Think again and think fast!"
Registered users get 10 MB of samples!!! Everything from HAL's infamous 
"I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that." to Fred Flintstone's "Yabba Dabba Doo."  
We've got it all - even the gunshot(s) that killed JFK!  Over 10 MB of sounds 
free to registered users!  See the FREE WAV FILES section near the end of 
this document for more information, examples, and ordering instructions.

For more detailed information on SoundWAV and it's operation see the online
help in SoundWAV.  The following is a brief summary of SoundWAV operation.

SOUNDWAV.EXE
  SOUNDWAV.EXE allows you to assign files to sounds, set the directory for 
WAV files, and test play the sounds, much as the Windows 3.1 Control Panel 
does.
  Going beyond the Control Panel though, SoundWAV also lets you set a 
directory for each individual system sound and set whether sounds files are 
to be selected randomly or sequentially (in ascending alphabetic order).

AUTOWAV.EXE
  AutoWAV simply swaps the WIN.INI System Sound file names for those sounds 
you have set up (with SOUNDWAV.EXE) as type Random or type Alphabetic.
  AUTOWAV.EXE is the module that you will use most frequently, and once set 
up it will be completely transparent to you.
  To change your system sounds each time you start Windows, just place 
AutoWAV in the Windows STARTUP program group.
  If you spend considerable time in Windows without restarting and don't 
want to wait that long to have your sounds swapped for new ones (Chewbacca 
roaring at every errant keystroke can try your patience after several 
hours), you can launch AutoWAV at any time just by double clicking on its 
icon.

No Overhead!!!
AutoWAV is not any form of "TSR," nor is it a constantly running Windows 
background task.  It loads, looks up information in your WIN.INI file and 
its own SOUNDWAV.INI file, then writes new file names for the system sounds 
back to WIN.INI.  Immediately after updating your WIN.INI to the new sounds 
it quits.
You will never see AutoWAV execute.  No time is spent on screen displays or 
anything else that could slow down Windows startup.  It runs, rapidly and 
invisibly, then terminates.


  IMPORTANT:  SoundWAV requires VBRUN100.DLL, the Visual Basic Dynamic Link
              Library.  To save you download time, it is NOT included with
              this copy of SoundWAV. (Although VBRUN100.DLL IS shipped on the  
              SoundWAV disks to registered owners).  You may download 
              VBRUN100.DLL from virtually any Windows oriented BBS.

Free WAV files
  Registered owners of SoundWAV receive over 10 MB of high quality WAV files 
at no extra cost.  All freshly recorded sound clips!  Not a single converted 
file in our inventory!!!
  It'd take you all day  (or longer!) to download a sound collection the 
size of this, even if you could find all these great ones.  With access fees 
and/or long distance charges you'd pay many times the cost of our program.  
Plus, many digitized sounds found online are of inferior quality.  Our files 
are all High Quality
  That's why we provide registered owners with free sound clips.  We want to 
ensure that all registered owners have a wide variety of quality sound files 
in order to better appreciate SoundWAV.
  We're talking 10 high density disks here!  We're not cheapskates when it 
comes to disk costs - our samples are stored uncompressed in well organized 
librariesstored for easier management by you.

High Quality
  Most WAV files you find on a BBS are translated from older file types and 
often from other computer platforms. The quality is usually poor, if not 
totally unacceptable.  Many sound files have been sampled at very slow rates 
and/or were specially processed (reduced from a higher sampling rate) to 
save disk space  -- which drastically affects quality.
  If it was originally done on a Sound Blaster it usually means it was 
recorded with a microphone (yuck!), because until very recently there were 
no "Line Input" connections on the Sound Blaster. Even if it's a recent 
recording, that doesn't mean that the person who recorded it knew what they 
were doing.
  That voice of HAL you get from a BBS might have been recorded by a 
teenager holding a cheap mike in front of a tiny little TV speaker. Worse, 
he was probably munching on a bag of Doritos while he recorded -- not to 
mention his dog barking, the toilet flushing upstairs, and the freeway 
nearby.
  Our WAV files are high quality recordings.  They were all recorded in 
Windows 3.1 using a Sound Blaster Pro.  No microphones!!!  Only line input 
direct from a Mitsubishi Hi-Fi HQ VCR, Technics CD, or Technics Cassette 
Deck.  The only background noises you hear in our samples are sounds that 
existed in the original media.  And, no need to worry about compatibility 
problems with our WAV files, since they were all recorded directly in WAV 
format.

Stored Uncompressed For Easy Management.
  WAV files are very compact by nature, and our tests have shown that there 
is little advantage to compressing these files -- we'd save one disk.
  We think that any digitized sound collection eats so much disk space that 
it is best to store WAV files on floppy disks (or have a big hard drive).  
Then, once a week (or whenever you choose) delete the WAV files from your 
hard drive and copy new  WAV files from your floppy disk collection.
  We could have been tightwads, and compressed all the WAV files so we could 
save a buck on disk costs, but then you would have to unzip or expand the 
files. We put you first, spent the money for an extra disk, and left the 
files uncompressed so that you can easily manage your sound collection.
Wide Variety

Includes sound clips from the following categories:
  Science Fiction
  Hollywood
  Sound Effects
  News
  Cartoons

Examples
  Here are  just a few of the great Windows 3.1 sound clips you'll get.  Use 
them with SoundWAV, or with your own applications.
HAL: I'm completely operational and all my circuits are functioning perfectly.
HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
HAL:  Well, I don't think there can be any question about it. It can only be 
      attributable to human error.
Darth Vader: I've been waiting for you, Obi Wan.
C3P0: It wasn't my fault, sir! Please don't deactivate me!
Dirty Harry: Go ahead, make my day.
George Jetson: This is George Jetson, signing off for the ENTIRE day.
Richard Nixon: I am not a crook.
Bill Murray: Don't shut it off -- I'm warning ya'!!!
Dorothy: Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.
Dorothy clone: Toto, I don't think we're in DOS anymore.
Dirty Harry: Well, we're not just gonna let you walk outta here.
Robocop: Your move, creep.
The Joker: Tell me something, my friend. (loud click of pistol cocking) Have 
           you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?
Neil Armstrong: That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
Number 5: Malfunction!  Need input!!!
Sound Effects: gunshot, ray gun, bomb, thunder, UFO, police siren, 
               toilet flush, applause, tires screeching, train, car horn, 
               airplane, car crash, more.

  Get all these sounds and many, many more!

Ordering Instructions
  Order now!  Only $45.  No hidden charges, no tax, no shipping and handling 
charges, no extra cost whatsoever.  Order SoundWAV and we'll include your
10 MB collection of the best sound clips available AT NO EXTRA COST!
  Available only on high density disks.  Please specify 5.25" or 3.5".  Call 
or write for more information, or send $45 check or money order (sorry, 
we're just a small company and we can't accept credit cards yet).

New Eden MultiMedia
7652 Hampshire Ave
Minneapolis, MN  55428-1457
(612)561-2557
Compuserve 71020,2230
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SoundWAV and it's component files and documentation are copyright 1992,
Edward S. Fink, New Eden MultiMedia
Sound files are included solely for demonstration purposes.
We make no claim of ownership or copyright of the sample sound files.

