🚀 go-pugleaf

When I first experiemented with PLAY years ago it impressed my Amiga buddy.
He was stunned the CoCo could play Mac and Amiga sound files so well.  HE
was also puzzled why I had to specify the speed of the samples since it was
built in to the IFF file format that the Amiga sound files used.  He gave me
use of large Amiga programming books.  So, the first thing I did was take
the source I had to PLAY (which had already been modified a few times) and
completely commented it.  At that time I understood how it worked and how it
mapped in/used/released all the memory it required.  BUT, I never actually
got around to doing anything with it.  I now have a need for a .WAV player,
and I was going to write my own until I got one sent to me via mail.

It just seems that a new version of play (perhaps called something else to
eliminate all the confusion) is needed.  First, what sound files can we
currently support and what types of files do we want to be able to support
as well?  I would like to see Orch-90 support for those who have the pak
since that would give slightly better 8-bit mono playback, as well as the
possibility of playing STEREO sound files as well (simulating them in MONO
through the CoCo 6-bit if no Orch-90 pak where present).

Is this a worthy project?

          Allen C. Huffman -/- Sub-Etha Software