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- Short: DeliAY 0.13a and few songs for DeliTracker 2.07+
- Type: mus/play
- Uploader: rak@dolni.ms.mff.cuni.cz (Patrik Rak)
- Author: rak@dolni.ms.mff.cuni.cz (Patrik Rak)
-
- [excuse my terrible English...]
-
- Prologue
- ========
-
- Welcome to this pre-release of DeliAY - AY emulator for DeliTracker 2.07
- and above.
-
- Some time ago I have released my FXS - Frantisek Fuka's AY tunes demo
- program.
-
- Quite a lot of people reacted and asked me if I am not going to write some
- kind of generous AY Emulator. Especially Peter Kunath (author of
- DeliTracker) seemed to be quite interested in and asked me to write an AY
- DeliPlayer. So, here you can see the result of our several discussions and
- source exchanges...
-
- Installation
- ============
-
- So, how to use this archive?
-
- Well, at first, copy DeliPlayers/DeliAY to wherever your DeliPlayers are.
- This is the main AY emulator interface between DT and AY Players.
-
- Then copy whole AYPlayers/ drawer in the same dir where your DT2 program is
- installed (sorry, for now, PROGDIR:AYPlayers/ is used as look up path
- for AYPlayers, surely will be configurable later). So far, only ZXAYAMAD
- (Amadeus - MC68000 rewrite of its z80 original, is used for those amad.#?
- songs) and ZXAYEMUL (Z80 Emul Player - used for running original z80 code,
- (like PlaySID does) for those emul.#? songs) are available.
-
- Now you are ready to go. Just launch your DeliTracker2 and then try to load
- some tunes from the Songs/ directory. Frantisek_Fuka/ dir contains all
- songs which you have probably already heared in FXS, directory Others
- contains some other songs which I wrote in the past while playing with
- Amadeus (terrible, but better than nothing :-) plus few famous tunes for
- the emulator which I converted in few minutes. Directory Incoming contains
- songs which I didn't took too much care of so far... People have a lot of
- ripped tunes, and it takes just a moment to convert it for the Emul Player,
- so you can expect great tunes very soon...
-
- So, that's all for those standard users. Developers read the dev/dev.doc!
-
- To Do
- =====
-
- - GUI which will allow you to configure the AY Players path, channel
- assignement, show additional Tune/AYPlayer info, etc.
-
- - Check out the White Noise generation formulae. So far I was unable to
- find out some exact AY WN frequency information. Anyone knows more?
- I think it sounds quite OK, but... ;-)
-
- - Finally implement the Envelopes. Indeed, this is the most important one.
- But I thought I can release this version without that, because a) Amadeus
- doesn't use them, so you can listen to the songs sooner, b) you can write
- AY Players sooner.
-
- - Write more AY players - SoundTracker, VooDoo, SQ Tracker, perhaps WHAM
- 128 too, etc.
-
- Thanks must go to
- =================
-
- Peter Kunath for his big help with this DeliPlayer,
- and his work on the GUI (sorry for that GUI again)
-
- FrantiÓek Fuka for his tunes and the Amadeus, and for ripping
- AY tunes in the past
-
- TomÁÓ PÁrtl for giving me his VMP cassette and other help
-
- Alastair Booker for sending me the tunes, although I was unable
- to assemble them on my Amiga so far
-
- and all those who have contacted me and encouraged me to do this...
-
- Contact addresses
- =================
-
- Send all new AY Players, AY tunes, bug reports, questions or suggestions to
- the following addresses:
-
- Internet: rak@dolni.ms.mff.cuni.cz (school - should be valid till Dec 94)
- (or you can try netfinding 'rak mff cuni cz' later)
- FIDO: 2:420/24.7 (home)
-
- or (in worst case)
-
- Patrik Rak
- Fantova 1796/4
- Praha 5
- 150 00
- Czech Republic
-
- Also, if you think I did good job, you can send me any amount of money you
- want (well, you can send them even if you do not think so :-). Or at least
- send me a mail that you appreciate it. The more people will react, the more
- work I will put in PlayAY in the future...
-
-
- That's all.
-
- Patrik
-