                                           1998/08/08 Zlin, Czech Republic
     Hi all!


This is me, Petr Stehlik, with yet another port of favourite program
to Atari TOS range of computers. 'RAP' is RA Player, or actually just
a converter from .RA (Real Audio) format to raw sound data. Real Audio
is often used on Internet sites. Though note this RAP can handle 14k4
files only, probably.

The raw sound data should be replayed at 8000 Hz, mono. The data is
stored as 16-bit, Signed, in Motorola format. Use e.g. 525 to convert
it to another sound file format.

Usage: rap source.ra   (sound data go to standard output)

  under shell with output redirection: rap source.ra >source.raw
  under MiNT with audio dev installed: rap source.ra >/dev/audio

Try out one or both example files I enclosed. Both were decoded fine, I
tested them.

rap.ttp for all machines with MC680x0 processor, rap_030.ttp for machines
with MC68020 or higher. Interesting is that rap_030.ttp is more than twice
faster than rap.ttp (converting palmra14.ram with rap.ttp took 21 seconds
while rap_030.ttp managed to convert it in less than 10 seconds).

That's it. Source code is provided. I got it on an Amiga WWW site (thanks
Eonic Man for sending me the URL of that site). Compiled by GNU C 2.8.1
(thanks Chris Felsch for porting this wonderful compiler) and linked with
MiNTlib pl-48 (thanks Usenet people for this great TOS/MiNT/MagiC library).

Bye, Petr

http://users.zln.cz/~pstehlik
mailto: pstehlik@zln.cz
