LIERO SOUND TOOLS v1.3 (25/02/2001)
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Programmed by Tim Verweij. Coded with QBasic 4.5

Used source code (from www.qb45.com):
- RealDir by Rich Geldreich
- Exist by ?

Other programs used:
- QBasic 4.5
- SoX - Sound eXchange (version 12.16 / Win32 Binary (Win95/98/NT))
  http://home.sprynet.com/~cbagwell/sox.html
- UPX - the Ultimate Packer for eXecutables (version 1.01)
  http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/upx.html
  Used this to pack both SOX.EXE and SNDTOOLS.EXE
- HIEW - Hex editor (version 6.11 / Last FREE version)
  http://gid.kuzbass.net/sen/

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What is Liero SND Tools?

Liero SND Tools is a sound editor for Liero v1.33. I tried some of the older versions. They got exactly the same sound file. So it should work on those versions as well. When you start the program, there are four options:

- Build new SND             Build a new SND based on ORIGINAL.SND
- Modify existing SND       To edit a Liero SND
- SND Mod Activator         To enable the new sounds
- Sound Extractor           To get sounds from any Liero SND

Keys:
- Use the cursor keys to navigate
- Press enter to select
- In the file selection screen, press tab to switch between file and directory list
- Press ESC to cancel. Press ESC in the main menu to quit.

When building a Liero SND
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Use the cursor keys to highlight a 'sound event'.
Press Enter to change the option for that event:
For each 'sound event' in the game there are 4 options:
- Use original sound
- Disable sound (For silent shotguns if you like)     ;-)
- Use sound number #
  This enables you to reuse a sound. For example: If you only want one DEATH sound,
  put it in slot DEATH1 and set the other 'DEATH' events to 'Use DEATH1 sound'.
  To change the number, highlight the 'Use sound number#' bar and use the left and
  right cursor keys.
- Import WAV file (This is what it's all about!)
When you are finished, hit the F10 key.
Give a filename, for example 'turbo'. The sounds will be saved in 'TURBO.SND'

Activate SND Mod
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OK, this is simple. Just choose the SND file you would like to use. Choose ORIGINAL.SND to reset to the original sounds.

Sound Extractor
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This will extract sounds from the chosen Liero SND. After selecting the SND, you can choose which sound to extract, or you can choose to extract all sounds. If you are extracting from the original SND (this will be autodetected) the program will remove clicks/pops at the beginning and end of all sounds. The sound will be converted to WAV files.

Notes
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* If your SND sounds ugly in Liero there are two things you can do:
  - Make sure you are using 8bit 22050Hz Wave files. The program will accept any Wave file,
    but while converting the Wave file, SoX may generate clipped samples.
    Therefor you should convert all wave files you are using to 8bit 22050Hz.
  - Make sure the wave files are not too loud. Normalizing to 95% works fine.
* This version of SoX only works with Win32, so SNDTools will need Windows95/98 to function properly.
* The DROPSHEL and the BOING sounds are unused for as far as I know. To save space, you can disable those sounds. They will not be included in your SND if you disable them.

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Version information:
        Version 1.3  * Added support for the BURNER sound. The last sound slot for Liero.
                       Fixed a strange bug that added 32 bytes of white space at the end
                       of each generated SND.
                       Fixed the 'Path not found' bug.
        Version 1.2  * Improved the 'Modify SND' option. The program now detects disabled
                       and 'recycled' (Use sound nr.) options.
                       Fixed a bug: now you can modify a SND and save it with the same name
        Version 1.1  * New option: Modify SND.
                       New menu for extracting sounds. You don't have to extract all
                       sounds anymore.
                       Removed 1.0a fix. Just make sure the WAV samples are 8bit 22050Hz,
                       and make sure they are not too loud.
                       Added overwrite warnings.
        Version 1.0a * A VERY minor update. This will (hopefully) fix most of the                                  clicks&pops problems when importing Wave files. Now go make some
                       Liero SND files and put them on the internet!
	Version 1.0  * First public release. I think I solved all the bugs, so this is
                       propably the last version. :P

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	e-mail:
	tj.verweij@lieromail.zzn.com

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