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From: peter black <peter.black@virgin.net>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.sound
Subject: SsVabTranfer -1
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 00:49:33 +0100
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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hello net yaroze technical people


i'm having troble making noise 
i have created .vh and .vb files using aiff2vag,mkvab and vabsplit
i used the simle.def file form psx\bin 
and even creatad a debug.deffile with mkvab -r -o
i have tried using the waves.vh & waves.vb files from sndemo
try as i might SsVabTranfer keeps returning the error code -1
i have attached my source code i hope you can help
also could someone please explain the difference between
a   void func() and static void func()

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/*LANDER 
WRITTEN USING CODE WARRIOR 2
COPY WRITE PETER BLACK 4.4.98
E MAIL ME peter.black@virgin.net
*/
#include <libps.h>
#include <__rts_info_t__.h>
#include "padread.h"
#define VH_ADDR 0X80090000//.vh loaded here
#define VB_ADDR 0X800a0000//.vb loaded here
// MAIN  PROGRAM 0X800b0000
#define OT_LENGTH  1
#define MVOL 127
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//GLOBAL VARIABLES
//OT 
GsOT WorldOT[2];
GsOT_TAG OTTags[2][1<<OT_LENGTH];
int ActiveBuff;
//PRIMITIVES
PACKET GpuPacketArea[2][524*24];


//CONTROLLER BUFFS
volatile u_char *bb0,*bb1;
//SOUND RELATED
short vabID,seq;

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//STATIC FUNCTION TEMPLATES

static void ClearOT();
static void DrawOT();
void init_sound();
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
main()
{

// heap starts after the main program on a 16-byte boundary
	unsigned long	lclHeapStart=(_end & 0xFFFFFFF0L)+0x10;

	// heap extends to the bottom of the stack.
	unsigned long lclHeapSize=((_stack_addr-(_stack_size<<10)) &
0xFFFFFFF0L)-lclHeapStart;

	InitHeap((unsigned long *)lclHeapStart, lclHeapSize);
	
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//INITIALISE YAROZE SYSTEM
//
// PAD BUFFERS
GetPadBuf(&bb0,&bb1);
//DISPLAY BUFFERS
SetVideoMode(MODE_NTSC);
GsInitGraph(320,240,4,0,0);
GsDefDispBuff(0,0,0,240);
//ORDERING TABLE
WorldOT[0].length=OT_LENGTH;
WorldOT[0].org   =OTTags[0];
WorldOT[1].length=OT_LENGTH;
WorldOT[1].org   =OTTags[1];
//FONTS
FntLoad(960,256);
FntOpen(16,16,320,240,0,512);
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//MAIN PROGRAM
//

 init_sound();//SsVabTransfer

while(1)
	{
	ClearOT();
	if(PadOneCross)// checks for button press
		{
		SsSetMVol(MVOL,MVOL);
		SsUtKeyOn(vabID,0,0,48,0,127,127);
		FntPrint("make noise");
		FntFlush(-1);
		}
	DrawOT();	
	}
}//main terminal
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//FUNCTIONS
//
	
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//CLEAR OT
//
static void ClearOT()
	{
	ActiveBuff=GsGetActiveBuff();
	GsSetWorkBase((PACKET*)GpuPacketArea[ActiveBuff]);
	GsClearOt(0,0,&WorldOT[ActiveBuff]);
	}
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//DRAW OT SWAP DISPLAY BUFFERS
//
static void DrawOT()
	{
	DrawSync(0);
	VSync(0);
	GsSwapDispBuff();
	GsSortClear(0,0,0,&WorldOT[ActiveBuff]);
	GsDrawOt(&WorldOT[ActiveBuff]);
	}
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
	
	
	

	
	/* These are bits of code provided by SONY */

/* defines */

void init_sound()
	{
	/* VAB opening and transmission to sound buffer */
	vabID = SsVabTransfer( (u_char*)VH_ADDR, (u_char*)VB_ADDR, -1, 1 );
	if (vabID < 0)
		{
		printf("SsVabTransfer failed (%d)\n", vabID);
		return;
		}
	}

	
	
	
	
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