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From: "Graeme Evans" <evans@fourny.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: vabs
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 18:54:24 -0000
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>>OK, def. the last point: how come std0.vb/vh aren't on the boot CD
>>to save time?  Is there a way of stripping instruments out of std0
>>that you don't need for a particular SEQ file? (It's not worth using up
>>400k of precious RAM just for a little SEQ title-screen ditty, I need
>>almost every nibble!)

I was thinking about this. I thought that maybe you could use the siocons
WAR command to load the vab straight into sound ram. But i dont think you
can.

I thought of a lame way around it, though. Use the main memory copy of the
VAB (after youve loaded it into sound ram) as a decompression scratchpad for
storing bitmaps and keep them compressed with that natty Jappo gzip library
that mr rutherford has a pointer to.

for making your own vab, there is this great archive of synth voice WAVs
that are reasonable quality and dont force one to record ones own Adlib
compatible ;). CAnt remember where it was but search on yahoo for WAV
library or something.

graeme