Category : BASIC Source Code
Archive   : PBC30A.ZIP
Filename : PLAYVOC.BAS

' +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
' | |
' | PBClone Copyright (c) 1990-1994 Thomas G. Hanlin III |
' | |
' +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

' This is another simple demo of the PBClone routines. It allows you to
' play a digitized sound file (.VOC format) on a SoundBlaster. The SBSIM
' driver, which is provided with SoundBlaster, is required.

' Syntax:
' PLAYVOC vocname[.VOC]

' The file extension is optional.

' Typically, this would be converted to an .EXE file using these steps:
' BC PLAYVOC/O;
' LINK PLAYVOC/EX,,NUL,PBCLONE;

DECLARE SUB SBGetActive (FM%, DskVoice%, MemVoice%, Auxiliary%, MIDI%)
DECLARE FUNCTION SBInt% ()
DECLARE SUB SBInitSrcFile (BYVAL DriverNr%, FileName$, ErrCode%)
DECLARE SUB SBPlay (BYVAL DriverNr%)
DECLARE SUB SBStop (BYVAL DriverNr%)

DEFINT A-Z



'--- Pluck filename from command line.
File$ = LTRIM$(RTRIM$(UCASE$(COMMAND$)))

'--- If they didn't enter a filename, let's tell 'em about ourselves.
IF LEN(File$) = 0 OR INSTR(File$, "/?") > 0 THEN
PRINT "PLAYVOC: Digitized Sound Player for PBClone by Thomas G. Hanlin III"
PRINT
PRINT "Syntax:"
PRINT " PLAYVOC vocname[.VOC]
PRINT
PRINT "The file extension is optional and defaults to .VOC. This demo plays .VOC"
PRINT "digitized sound files on a SoundBlaster, using the SBSIM driver."
END
END IF

'--- Add .VOC extension if they didn't provide it.
IF INSTR(File$, ".") = 0 THEN File$ = File$ + ".VOC"

'--- Check the SBSIM interrupt to make sure SBSIM is installed.
IF SBInt = 0 THEN
PRINT "PLAYVOC requires the SBSIM driver to function. SBSIM is provided with the"
PRINT "SoundBlaster. Go to your SoundBlaster directory and type SBSIM to install"
PRINT "the driver before using PLAYVOC. You will probably get some extraneous error"
PRINT "messages from SBSIM-- ignore them. PLAYVOC will tell you of any problem."
END
END IF

'--- This is the number of the Disk Voice driver used for .VOC playing.
DriverNr = 2

'--- Here we initialize Disk Voice handling for our .VOC file.
SBInitSrcFile DriverNr, File$, ErrCode
IF ErrCode THEN
PRINT "Error initializing "; File$; " for input. Error code ="; ErrCode
END
END IF

'--- This starts the .VOC file playing
SBPlay DriverNr

'--- The file plays in the background, so we could do something here.
'--- In this case, though, we'll just wait for the file to finish.
'--- We'll exit if is pressed, in case they want out.
DO
SBGetActive FM, DskVoice, MemVoice, Auxiliary, MIDI
LOOP UNTIL DskVoice = 0 OR INKEY$ = CHR$(27)

'--- When we're done, we shut down the Disk Voice driver.
SBStop DriverNr