Play .apc files?

What software created the .apc files to begin with? I had a look around and couldn't really find anything or any software that will play this format ...
 
Yep, that's about all I found for it too .... even googling APAC Compressed Audio didn't unearth any further info ... so the obsolete part explain that bit to me ....
 
Ahh ... then enable the inbuilt mic if your Mac has one, you do this through System Preferences ~> Sound.

Launch GarageBand, create a new project, save it to the Desktop and add a Real Instrument track. Click record while the song is playing in the background and make sure you turn off the click track which is under the Control menu ...

Export it to iTunes, in the Share menu.

The overall sound may be less than optimal but you can add a bit of oomph in GarageBand before you export ...

There will probably be another way to do this so watch this space :)
 
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VirtualTracy said:
Ahh ... then enable the inbuilt mic if your Mac has one, you do this through System Preferences ~> Sound.

Launch GarageBand, create a new project, save it to the Desktop and add a Real Instrument track. Click record while the song is playing in the background and make sure you turn off the click track which is under the Control menu ...

Export it to iTunes, in the Share menu.

The overall sound may be less than optimal but you can add a bit of oomph in GarageBand before you export ...
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There is one little problem with that. The game is actually a Windows game, and GarageBand is a Mac application. I can access the music files on the CD from either Mac OS or Windows, so something for either platform would be good.
 
nixgeek said:
Apparently this company called Marian distributes this application, and it's only for Windows 3.x-NT4. I couldn't find any other application on the Internet that would be able to convert this file to something more compatible.
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Someone on another forum had suggested that application, but I have Windows XP on a PC (in addition to a Mac), and that application did not seem to recognize most of the audio files that I tried with it. I guess it is a bit dated.
 
Curiosity said:
Someone on another forum had suggested that application, but I have Windows XP on a PC (in addition to a Mac), and that application did not seem to recognize most of the audio files that I tried with it. I guess it is a bit dated.
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It's quite dated considering the OS requirements. What you can do is right click on the executable, select Properties for it, and then there should be a tab to select the compatibility mode you want to set it for (Windows 95, Windows NT, etc.). Try that and see if it runs under your chosen compatibility mode.
 
bbloke said:
If the ".apc" files are the same as the "CRYO APC" format ("Audio format used in some games by CRYO Interactive Entertainment"), then it looks like FFmpeg may be able to handle them (see list of supported file formats). It may be worth looking at the OS X equivalent, ffmpegX.
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I took a look at those pages, but after reading that plus looking up the applications that were derived from ffmpeg, I do not see anything that says it can play .apc files, and the ffmpeg itself has to be compiled before one can use it. I do not want to get into compiling software, and there is no guarantee that it would work anyway, so I guess I am out of luck.

Thanks for trying, anyway, guys.
 
Well, this is why bbloke mentioned ffmpegX, which you don't have to compile. ffmpegX will also have a link in the application pointing to where you can download the necessary codecs and associated binaries.
 
I got and tried ffmpegX with the codecs it asked for. It did not like those files, either. It called them Unknown format.
 
The artist who wrote the incidental music for Beyond Atlantis is Pierre Esteve:

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