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- Q: How much is it?
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- A: It's free!
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- Q: What are the system requirements?
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- A: Basically AmigaAMP runs fine on any stock Amiga with at least a 68030-50
- MHz processor. However, if you want to be able to play Layer3 without
- downsampling and quality loss you need at least a 68060-50. Be prepared to
- face heavy system load! :-)
- If you've got a PowerPC you can play Layer3 streams in the background without
- noticeable system slowdown at all. For the NewGUI (WinAMP lookalike) modes a
- graphics card is a must! The GadTools interface works well on the legacy
- ECS/AGA display modes though.
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- Q: Why AHI? It's slowing down my system a lot.
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- A: That's simply not true! I just performed some tests on a 68040-40.
- Have a look at the AmigaAMP Homepage for the results.
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- Q: Why do I get poor sound quality?
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- A: AmigaAMP uses the highlevel device access routines of AHI. The big
- advantage of this method is that several programs can play at the same time
- through only one physical stereo-audio output. AHI does mixing and resampling
- on the fly.
- The big disadvantage: If you don't configure it very carefully you'll end up
- with AHI degrading the sound quality and eating lots of CPU time. (see above)
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- Q: How can I archieve 44.1 playback without a soundcard?
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- A: If you have a graphics card (highly recommended anyway), you can have your
- audio/video DMA set to double frequency all the time. Picasso96 takes care of
- this automatically if you set the environment variable Picasso96/AmigaVideo
- to 31kHz. CyberGraphX needs a hack unfortunately, or you can put
- C:AddAudioModes DBLSCAN REFRESH QUIET after LoadWB in your startup-sequence.
- Have a look at the AHI documentation for further details and requirements!
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- Q: Why do skins look dithered on my 16/24bit CyberGraphX screen?
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- A: That's a bug in AmigaAMP 2.0. It will be fixed in v2.1.
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- Q: I can't get the spectrum analyzer to work. Why?
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- A: The spectrum analyzer needs AmigaOS 3.1 and PowerUP to run. If one of the
- two is missing it will be simply switched off. Only AmigaOS 3.1 provides the
- fast, effective and system friendly drawing routines that my spectrum
- analyzer routine needs. If you don't have 3.1 by now, rush to the nearest
- shop and buy it! :-)
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- Q: How can I use the WinAMP skins?
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- A: All the texture sets reside in a subdirectory called skins relatively to
- the place where you've installed the AmigaAMP executable. If you're starting
- AmigaAMP from the commandline just add the keyword NewGUI. If you're running
- it from Workbench, just add the keyword NEWGUI to the icon's tooltypes.
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- Q: Do I have to convert the skins first?
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- A: No. Each skin consists of several Windows BMP pictures. If you have a
- datatype installed that can handle those, there's no need to convert them. If
- you're in doubt you can try loading the pictures into MultiView. If it fails
- you'll have to find another datatype or convert the pictures to IFF.
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- Q: It seems to be playing but I can't hear anything!
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- A: Probably you've chosen the wrong AHI driver. The driver has to be
- configured using the AHI preferences program which should be in your prefs
- drawer. Have a look at the manual about how to choose the correct driver.
- Due to limitations of some AHI modes you can't always turn the volume slider
- higher than 0dB!
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