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From: ae277@freenet.carleton.ca (Dan Charrois)
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Subject: AudCompDemo - audio IFF compression software
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TITLE

        AudComp

VERSION

        V1.0

COMPANY

        Private Developer

AUTHOR

        Dan Charrois
        Box 75
        Legal, Alberta
        T0G 1L0
        Canada

	Internet: charro@ee.ualberta.ca

DESCRIPTION

        Although there are many routines to compress data files and
        executables, until now there hasn't been anything specifically
        designed to compress audio IFF 8SVX files.  Standard compression
        routines for the Amiga typically only get in the neighborhood of
        a 20-30% improvement in file size.

        AudComp was designed to improve on this situation.  Incorporating
        a lossy algorithm, it can often compress audio files up to 10 to 20
        times smaller than the originals.  The user can specify a quality
        level to allow compression of high quality/low compression to
        low quality/high compression or anywhere in between.  Usually even
        the high quality compressions are at least twice as small as
        Fibonacci-Delta encoded files.

        This is a freely distributable demo version of the software.  It
        is only capable of decompressing files previously compressed with
        AudComp.  To allow you to assess the capabilities of the software,
        a few sample files, compressed at varying quality levels, are
        included.

        Two versions of the executable are included - one for stock 68000
        based Amigas, and one for 68020+ CPUs with a numeric co-processor.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

        None

HOST NAME

        Aminet (e.g. ftp.wustl.edu)

DIRECTORY

        /pub/aminet/biz/demo

FILE NAMES

        AudCompDemo10.lha
        AudCompDemo10.readme

PRICE

        Demo version - free
        Registered vesion - $15.00 in Canadian funds

DISTRIBUTABILITY

        The demo version of this software is freely distributable.  The
        registered version is Copyright 1993 by Dan Charrois, and may be
        obtained by sending $15.00 in Canadian funds to the address given
        earlier.


--
Dan Charrois
ae277@freenet.carleton.ca (Carleton Freenet)
windii@dan.sp-agency.ca   (Canadian Space Agency)
charro@ee.ualberta.ca     (Electrical Engineering, University of Alberta)