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- Short: -*AMOREL*- No fuss multiformat(OSS etc.!) player!
- Author: amorel@xs4all.nl
- Uploader: amorel@xs4all.nl
- Type: mus/play
- Url: http://www.xs4all.nl/~amorel
-
- This audio/song player supports:
-
- * Octamed Soundstudio (OSS)
- * Any other octamed and med format
- * Mods
- * Digibooster(through AHI)
- * Iff 8 bit samples direct from disk
- * More to come....
-
- UPDATE:
- * Visualprefs problem solved out of place gadget characters
- Thanks to Stefano Clemente, Tomislav Kitynski and Thomas Hurst
- for telling me :-)
- * Little bugfix concerning stopping a mod and then loading new
- one.
- * Added eject button.
- * Bugfix: When playing a sample without a playlist it hangs, grmbl
- thanks to Curt Esser for telling me.
- * Playlist! Enough said :-)
- * Added font sensitivity concerning the window title, so the window
- gadgets will draw correctly if the windowtitle has a different
- size font than 8.
-
- etc.
-
- INSTALL: Copy libraries to libs:
- Copy main program anywhere you like!
-
- To start:
-
- This program is shareware but fully functional. Please pay $5,- or 10,-
- Dutch guilders. Contact me for payment information.
-
- If you pay, you will get better support and you will get updates sooner.
- Also I`m more likely to implement your wishes :-) And of course paying this
- reasonable fee will encourage me to improve this more and more.
-
- Check my site for anything about this and my modules, ramblings and links!
-
- The story:
-
- This is my first attempt to make a proper program for the Amiga. As some
- may know I love (electronic)music and compose it myself. Of course I have
- been using(and still use) several of the best Amiga song(module) players
- around. But I found them to be overfeatured, with tons of menu options and
- window gadgets and supporting tons of formats noone will be likely to have
- ever heard about ;-) In other words, in an attempt to cover everything
- audio and what not they became sort of overkill.... to me at least.
-
- Hence my motivation to make a song/audio/module, whatever the name should
- be, player.
-
- Besides the Amiga I`ve been developing on several other platforms, the
- C=64, for job(s): the IBM AS/400 and some other platform widely used,
- which I prefer to forget.
-
- Tools used:
-
- Amiga 1200 with a 175 mHz ppc/25 mHz 040 powerup card and 32 mb of memory.
- Blitz Basic, a great programming language for which some of the best games
- ever have been made and are being made. Also very good for application
- development. Coffee, tea, gym, team fortress quaking(try 137.226.116.82 for
- that :) to keep my sanity ;-)
-
- The program:
-
- Ok, as you know by now this program plays modules of different formats.
- The formats currently supported are:
-
- * Med, Octamed, Soundstudio(thus 4 channel, 8 channel and the newest octamed
- soundstudio up to 64 channel formats)
-
- * Pt module(the standard mod format)
-
- * Digibooster through AHI(a new composing program becoming pretty
- popular)
-
- * IFF 8 bit samples, direct from disk(so no memory limitations)
-
- The most widely used formats are covered as far as I`m concerned(after all
- I started to make this for myself to begin with ;). There will appear some
- more support for other formats(see `future`) and if you think I missed out
- something really obvious, tell me.
-
- Usage:
- I`m not gonna tell, ought to be obvious :-)
-
- Needed:
- several octamed related libraries(included)
- dbplayer.library (included)
- libraries for powerpacker and xpk(included)
- AHI for digibooster(not included)
-
- Features:
-
- * Multi format(of course :)
- * PLAYLIST!
- * Support for xpk`ed and powerpacked files, decrunching in
- fastmemory if available.
- * `App` support, thus drag and drop on window, appicon or
- appmenu(shift select)
- * Plays (octa)med, soundstudio and digibooster songs from
- fastmemory if available.
- * Fast and easy gadtools GUI
- * Soundperiod displayed with PT modules(working on it for other
- formats)
- * Usage of standard libraries for replay and decrunch, except PT
- modules and IFF 8 bit samples. (hm is that a feature or laziness? ;)
- * Able to load in ANY file and attempt to play it, asking you
- beforehand of course(see and listen for yourself ;) Might be
- usefull for the few people who love weird sounds, some files give
- perfect sounds for a psychedelic electro song :-D
- * Reasonably small and fast, doesnt use up much resources. Needs
- very little memory to run
- * Works on all cpu types(as far as i know) and maybe even on Amiga
- os <2.0, not tested though.
-
- * .... ask me for features you want/need!
-
- Tested on:
-
- * Amiga 1200 with 175 mHz ppc, 25 mHz 040 and 32 mb fast
- * Amiga 1200 with 060
- * Bare Amiga 1200 2 mb chip, 14 mHz 020
-
- Known bugs:
-
- I have fixed all the bugs I found so far, except:
-
- This program should support sid songs, but I haven`t got that working yet.
- It`ll load sids in and all(If you`ve got the playsid library), it just doesn`t
- want to make any sound.
- TELL ME IF IT WORKS FOR YOU!
-
- For the rest I do not know of any bugs present, that doesn`t mean however
- that there are not any bugs, most likely there are(as in any program). if
- you find some, contact me.
-
- Future:
-
- * SID songs working properly! ;-)
- * 16 bit sample support
- * fast forward and rewind on other than PT modules
- * showing of period on other than PT modules
- * more formats(tell me)
- * `jukebox` option, randomly/sequentially play songs, or a
- `playlist`.
- * mp3 support(maybe!)
- * more I can`t think of(it`s 4.23 in the night now :)
- again, contact me. Make me a nice icon 8-)
-
- Credits:
-
- Wendy, my wife who I love a lot!
- Fabio Bizzetti as beta tester
-
- Teijo Kinunnen for the great Octamed(Soundstudio)
-
- Frederic Laboureur for New Commandset in Blitz(likes enfocer hits ;)
- James L Boyd for Pupit(powerpacker (un)pack)
- Xbones, Binary Assault
- Rick Hodger
- Red When Excited
- Acid
-
- Jay Miner, whose intellect made all this possible :-)
-
- Greetings:
-
- All on #amigaquake/#amycoders and #theend!
- Delphine `Elecwnch`
- Thomas `A340`
- August `Gustli`
- Damnation(long time no see)
- Nicholas `Yagger`(idem)
- Rune `Shitlips`(idem)
- The peopleĀ on the Blitz list
-
- I forgot many....
-
- -*LOVE*-
-
-
- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 383 258 32.6% 11-Jul-98 02:10:22 Amoralplayer.info
- 16960 9270 45.3% 10-Sep-98 18:08:48 dbplayer.library
- 19928 10274 48.4% 31-Jan-99 01:48:48 medplayer.library
- 28224 10325 63.4% 18-Jan-99 04:24:22 octamixplayer.library
- 13540 7167 47.0% 25-Jan-99 02:04:34 octaplayer.library
- 6128 4144 32.3% 18-Jan-99 04:24:14 powerpacker.library
- 11448 7090 38.0% 18-Jan-99 04:24:18 xpkmaster.library
- 56128 56128 0.0% 19-Apr-99 04:45:32 Amoralplayer
- 6122 3086 49.5% 19-Apr-99 04:43:44 Amoralplay1.1.readme
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- 158861 107742 32.1% 21-Apr-99 22:33:20 9 files
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