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Per Jacobsen (perjac@inet.uni-c.dk) wrote:
: Robert Davis (rdavis@nyx10.cs.du.edu) wrote:
: > mafuller@clubmet.metrobbs.com (Fuller) writes:
:
: > >Does anyone know what REALAUDIO format is and can it be heard on the Ami
: > a?
:
: > I am aware of the VWire project, but it seems to have stalled.
: > Is there anyone else working on a program to play REALAUDIO
: > on an Amiga?
:
: They are hardly likely to tell you are they?
:
: The people who have copyright on the format DO NOT want to make an amiga
: version, or give amiga people information about the format.

One might wonder why.  I had an email exchange with someone who knows one of
their in house programmers.  He said basically that they know that the Amiga
chipset could easily handle the task.  However, a port will never come to
light.  Because for reasons unknown, they do not like the Amiga.  Go figure...

So if you are running ShapeShifter, that is close as what your're going to get
to see RealAudio running on the Amiga.

: Therefore the only way to get it to work on the amiga is to hack the code
: on another machine. Possibly a macintosh since it uses a motorola processor.
: In other words someone would have to reverse engineer it, and thats not
: something you would like to advertize all over the place. Unless AT does
: it of course, lots of publicity :)

So, where can I pick up my copy. ;)

EL