1README for the AIFF files: 2 3These files are sound files for the instruments in NetHack. 4There are 11 sounds, one for each distinct instrument. 5The sounds are in 8-bit 22kHz AIFF format, which should be 6readable by a broad range of platforms. Since the sounds 7came from Rolands S-750 sample library (most of them) there 8should be no copyright on them when we treat them like we 9do here (as instruments) - indeed, the sample library I 10got from Roland didn't even bear a (c) symbol. 11 12Some of the sounds are very adequate (Drum of Earthquake, 13Wooden Flute, Magic Harp) while some are less true to the 14original name (how does a Frost Horn sound?) Actually, I 15don't know what a Bugle is (Bugle horn?) so I took a trumpet 16sound for that. Correct me if I'm wrong. 17 18What does this have to do with the main code? Well, nothing 19so far. There are some places that are #ifdef MAC and calls 20mac_speaker; that function takes an object and a tune (in 21capital letters A-G) and plays the tune with the given 22instrument. When playing a specific tune, that tune is of 23course used. For "improvise," I use middle "C." 24 25Ideally, we should do something equal with sound that we 26have with displays, so we can use one common set of calls 27in the main code, and have ports do whatever seems appropriate 28for the available hardware. 29 30Any comment on the sounds or their use is welcome: 31 32 Jon W{tte 33 Mac Team 34 nethack-bugs@nethack.org 35