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Info updated: 30 Apr 97



From: Martin Blom lcs@lysator.liu.se

Subject: AHI extra utilities
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 97 01:21:00


TITLE

     AHI extra utilities

VERSION

     Speak Freely   6.1b
     Newtracker     3.56/AHIr2
     AHI-Noteplayer 1.4
     HardDiskRecord 1.1
     AHI-SoundDT    40.6 patched
     ProtrackerDT   1.11

AUTHOR

     Martin Blom             

     Bjornar Henden          
     John Walker             
     Commodore-Amiga, Inc.   Hell?

DESCRIPTION

     Speak Freely

     This is a quick port if John Walker's "Speak Freely" (Unix
     version).  The AUDIO:  device that is part of the AHI package
     (see Aminet:mus/misc/ahiusr.lha or
     ) is used to play
     and record sound.  This means that it was a walk in the park to
     port the program, and that it also supports sound cards.

     Newtracker

     This is a program to compose music modules.  It should be
     compatible with the ProTracker module-format.  Some of the
     advantages:
         - requires 2.0 and asl.library v38
         - font-sensitive gadget user interface
         - multiple windows, most of them sizeable
         - opens on any public screen
         - select screenmode
         - support for xpk
         - doesn't mess up your hires pointer
         - correctly allocates audio.device
         - builtin sampler (not the best)

     Some of the disadvantages:
         - no documentation
         - maybe too few functions at the moment

     Original program written by Bjornar Henden, this version hacked
     to use AHI by Martin Blom.  My changes include:

       Replaced audio.device opendevice/closedevice with AHI
        routines.
       Added an audio mode requester.
       Added the new AHI variables to the prefs file.
       Redirected all audio hardware banging to AHI.
       Changed sample loading to fast-memory instead of chip.
       Removed CIA timer code, AHI's timing is used instead (yes, it
        works with the filesave driver!).
       Commented out the Filter and Funk effects (Funk works
        perfectly, but it's such a lame effect that I wont support it).

     r2:
       I had the channels (left/right) swapped.
       The quadrascopes works with sound cards now.
       Some error checking added.

     AHI-Noteplayer

     This is a DeliTracker NotePlayer for the AHI audio system.
     Based on the Toccata NotePlayer Genie by Delirium Softdesign.

     HardDiskRecord

     This is the binary distribution of HardDiskRecord, a simple
     program that I wrote to demonstrate how to use AHI for
     recording.  The full source is included in the AHI Developer's
     Archive.

     AHI-SoundDT

     This is just yet another of those quick'n dirty one-day hacks
     for AHI.  This time a small patch for sound.datatype that makes
     it use the AHI audio system version 4 instead of audio.device.
     Hopefully Jonathan Gapen will finish his new sound.datatype
     featuring 16 bit sound soon, but in the mean time this hack may
     be useful.

     ProtrackerDT

     Protracker datatype, using AHI version 2 or later.  Quite
     hackish, but it works.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

     AmigaOS release 2.
     MC68020+ processor strongly recommended.
     AHI audio system version 4.

AVAILABILITY

     Aminet, for example:
     ftp://ftp.germany.aminet.org/pub/aminet/comm/net/ahi-sf-6.1b.lha
     ftp://ftp.germany.aminet.org/pub/aminet/mus/edit/NewTracker-AHI.lha
     ftp://ftp.germany.aminet.org/pub/aminet/mus/play/AHI-NotePlayer.lha
     ftp://ftp.germany.aminet.org/pub/aminet/mus/misc/HardDiskRecord.lha
     ftp://ftp.germany.aminet.org/pub/aminet/util/dtype/AHI-SoundDT.lha
     ftp://ftp.germany.aminet.org/pub/aminet/util/dtype/ProtrackerDT.lha

     WWW:
     http://www.lysator.liu.se/~lcs/ahi.html

PRICE

     Free.

DISTRIBUTABILITY

     Freeware.
     Freely distributable in unmodified form.

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