About the program: Opus8 was written in Pascal and compiled with the PCQ PD compiler. I am a big Bloom County fan, so that's where I got the name. It is easy to use. All you do is type "Opus8 ". Then just run the sounds with your favorite sound player. About the frequency: Typically, Macintosh sounds are sampled at four frequencies. They are : 22.2 kHz 11.1 kHz 7.2 kHz 5.7 kHz. Rarely will you find a sound sampled at another rate. About the sound examples: I used a friend's SuperDrive to copy the examples to MS-DOS then Dos-2-Dos to get them on my Amiga. Here are the frequencies so you can convert them yourself: Pig-Ignorance.mac 11100 Hz HAL.Sorry.mac 11100 Hz If you want more sounds I have a few more disks of them just drop me a letter (and a little cash:disks, mailers, postage[More than three bucks will be dandy.]) and I'll send some along. There are Monty Python sounds, Doctor Who sounds, 2001 sounds, Bodily Functions, Song Clips, etc. About the problems: IF you hear a pop at the beginning of the converted sound, you probably downloaded the sound, or that is the way the sound is. My program does not yet strip the DeskTop info off the file, and probably will not. Stuff copied with the Apple SuperDrive will be perfectly fine. Though I am not sure about Mac-2-DOS, but I will find out. Also, do not make Opus8 resident and then run it with sounds on the RAM DISK. I have not got the foggiest idea why it doesn't work, but it will run and then the IFF sound cannot be found by any program, but it does show up on Dir and List. Why, I hear you ask. I do not know. So don't do it. Donations: Donations will be graciously accepted. I will send you more sounds and any upgrades I make. I also need a harddrive. Please help. Distrubution: You may distribute this as long as you keep these files together. You may put this program in your PD collection as long as you do not charge more than $5 for the disk it is on. It is my program, I wrote it, I make the rules for it. Capice(?)? For the future: A Workbench interface. Amiga to Mac. IBM AdLib sounds. Using the memory a little bit better. Running on the Amiga 3000: This program works fine on the 3000, but the disk drive slows it down. The program reads and converts 1K blocks but that might change in the future. Thanks: Thanks go out to Kerry and Ian for the Mac sounds. One for Mark for the use of his Mac IIsi. To Patrick Quaid for the help with the program and for the compiler. To Ken for the use of his Amiga 3000, and for scanning the pictures for the icon. And to Rebecca for being so nice. Thanks. About the author: My name is John Safranek. I am a Leo. I am a Senior in high school. I've had a year a BASIC and a Semester and a half of Pascal in school. And blowing my own horn: this is a great first program. Thank you. Address: NOTE this address will change in June 1992. I graduate. John A. Safranek c/o Maj NJ Safranek 2nd General Hospital CMR-402 Box 770 APO, AE 09180 November 23, 1991 Register to VOTE. Zappa '92.