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fternoon, fellow
simmers. Maddog here to give you an update on the AM Radio gauge
review I did a few weeks back. Rob Clark has been a busy bee on
perfecting the AM Radio gauge for FS98, CFS and FS2000. As the first
versions were big and bulky and included the WAV files within the
gauge Rob has been working hard to come up with a more efficient way
to use the wav files and add some variety. And he has done just
that.The third version, even though the end user could pick his wav files to use, was still inefficient and FS took a performance hit when in use. Adding night lighting and such he further enhanced the code so that you could not only use WAV files, but also the ever more popular MP3 type files. Wow, how about that for variety. But that's not all as the story goes. Rob, not fully content, kept working on code to lighten the size of not only the gauge but the song files and BAM, he did it! Finally after hours and weeks of hard work the MIDI version of the AM Radio Gauge has now been realized. Not only is the gauge file just 61 k in size but now you can load the ever so small MIDI files and no matter where you fly, even with full density on FS, it does not take a performance hit of any kind. And if you don't own any MIDI files you can download millions from the Internet. Not only that, but there is also a version that will play your musical CDs.
Here are the different versions so far. All have been uploaded now to FlightSim.Com, so go get 'em and happy flying...and listening.
AMRADIO.ZIP
DirectSound. Push button channel changer, plays 4 user
installed WAV (PCM) files. Files all load fully into memory upon panel
selection, for highest FS frame rate performance. Three versions provide
different night lighting effects.
MP3RADIO.ZIP
DirectSound. Push button channel changer, plays 4 user
installed WAV (PCM and/or ADPCM) and/or MP3 files. Files all load for
streaming data buffered playback, for minimum panel selection load times.
Two versions for different sound playback quality levels.
AMRADIOC.ZIP
Push button channel changer, plays tracks/songs from users'
audio CDs on their computers' CD drives.
AMRADIOM.ZIP
DirectSound and DirectMusic. Push button channel changer,
plays 4 user installed MIDI files.
Roger "Maddog" Gaylor
B26AUD2.ZIP
DirectSound. Flip switch channel changer, plays Glenn Miller's
"In the Mood," "American Patrol," "Moonlight Serendade," and "String of
Pearls."
WW2RADIO.ZIP
DirectSound. Push button channel changer, plays Marlene
Dietrich's "Lilli Marlene," Duke Ellington's "Take the 'A' Train," Artie
Shaw's "Moon Glow" and Woody Herman's "At the Woodchoppers Ball."
maddog@evansville.net