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  9. │  PROPGRAMMER ■ RAY^[RADICAL RHYTHMS]^[BLANK]                             │
  10. │       DESIGN ■ COSMiC^[RADICAL RHYTHMS]^[D-LUSION]^[BLANK]               │
  11. │   (C)1993,94 ■ D-LUSiON, RAY & COSMIC                                    │
  12. │ DiSTRiBUTiON ■ UNDERCOVER & RADiCAL RHYTHMS                              │
  13. │    ReLEASE   ■ VeRZiON V2.2o -/- 09/06/1994                              │
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  15. │ ■ X-PLAY ReQUiRES ■                                                      │
  16. │                     [ FREE MEMORY                                      ] │
  17. │                     [ AT LeAST a 386SX/16                              ] │
  18. │                     [ A SoUNDCARD (GUS/SB/SBPRO/SB16ASP)               ] │
  19. │                     [ A COOL USER (WELL, MAYBE YOU... ;) )             ] │
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  21. │ ■ HOW TO USE THE PLAYER ■                                                │
  22. │                                                                          │
  23. │  At your  command line type - X-PLAY FILENAME.DMF to  play  your desired │
  24. │  sound file (or without parameters to view the list of options).         │
  25. │                                                                          │
  26. │  After  selecting  a valid  sound file, the program prompts you to enter │
  27. │  several information. Select  your  sound  card  and  the  corresponding │
  28. │  mixer information. This of course only affects  SoundBlaster(tm) output │
  29. │  and is therefore not required if  running in GUS mode.                  │
  30. │                                                                          │ 
  31. │  The  player  main  screen  shows some information while playing and, of │
  32. │  course, a  fine, 32 channel wide  equalizer! Please  note  that the DMA │
  33. │  transfer  on SB  and  compatible cards  slows  down the systemspeed and │
  34. │  affects the frame update of the equalizer. Let there be GUS!            │
  35. │                                                                          │
  36. │  Note from RAY: I could have made the equalizer a LOT faster  in SB mode │ 
  37. │  but this would  decrease the sound qualitiy, so I decided to give maxi- │
  38. │  mum performance to quality.                                             │
  39. │                                                                          │
  40. │  This is why I implemented the "/B:xx" option which  sets the DMA buffer │
  41. │  length. The smaller  the value, the faster  the equalizer  on SB cards. │
  42. │  Just use the value you want to...                                       │
  43. │                                                                          │
  44. │  DISCLAIMER: You  use  this  software  at  your  own  risk! We  are  not │
  45. │  responsible for you putting the cat into the fridge while playing!      │
  46. │                                                                          │
  47. │  This program may be  distributed  freely  as long no fee is charged for │
  48. │  distribution. If  you  do  copy this program, then  copy it for FREE!!! │
  49. │  (Otherwise we'll get ya!)                                               │
  50. │                                                                          │
  51. │                                                                          │
  52. │  X-Tracker Player(c) 1993, 1994 by D-LUSION, RAY & COSMIC                │
  53. │  X-Tracker (c) 1993, 1994 by TBG/ASi                                     │
  54. │                                                                          │
  55. │                                                                          │
  56. │  Contact uz at:                                                          │
  57. │                                                                          │
  58. │  Undercover Support BBS +49 23 23 450 850                                │
  59. │  Ray's kewl voice line  +49 23 23 460 525                                │
  60. │                                                                          │
  61. │  Sorry for this SHORT docu, but no time to write a bigger one! ;)))      │
  62. │                                                                          │
  63. │  Revizion hiztory:                                                       │
  64. │   Changes from Verzion 1.o1 to 1.2o:                                     │
  65. │    - Renamed to X-PLAY because of some problems with the small D-LUSION  │
  66. │      player.                                                             │
  67. │    - Config file implemented. the first time you run the program and     │
  68. │      enter the parameters, X-PLAY will store your configuration in a     │
  69. │      special .INI file (hi BOP, CODE-X!).                                │
  70. │    - some graphical changes (yo COS) - think you feel better now!        │
  71. │    - check out the new functions! (watch the player screen!)             │
  72. │                                                                          │
  73. │   Changes from Verzion 1.2o to 1.26:                                     │
  74. │    - added support for DMA's 2,4,5,6,7,8,9 and IRQ's 2 and 12 for more   │
  75. │      success on SB 16 and GUS.                                           │
  76. │    - added a secret message scroller ;) maybe you find it!               │
  77. │                                                                          │
  78. │   Changes from Verzion 1.26 to 1.27                                      │
  79. │    - added dos exit codes, now X-PLAY sets the errorcode <> 0 if an      │
  80. │      error occured.                                                      │
  81. │                                                                          │
  82. │   Changes from Verzion 1.27 to 1.28                                      │
  83. │    - sorry dudez and dutettez! X-PLAY crashed with a player error on     │
  84. │      some systems and/or machines. This has been fixed! Sorry again! ;)  │
  85. │    - speeded up equalizer decrement on request by [ANNibAl!              │
  86. │                                                                          │
  87. │   Changes from Verzion 1.28 to 1.3o                                      │
  88. │    - added new memory manager features. Now X-PLAY will run with         │
  89. │      QEMM (tm) or EMM installed (but you must have at least one          │
  90. │      meg of XMS tough...).                                               │
  91. │                                                                          │
  92. │      *** NOTE: this feature is very new, so if it does not work - please │
  93. │      *** do not blame us for that. Please leave us a message, and we'll  │
  94. │      *** try to fix it.                                                  │
  95. │                                                                          │
  96. │    - the GUS window now shows the memory free _after_ loading a module.  │
  97. │    - added DSM support (_D_ouble _S_ound _M_em). Now X-PLAY will         │
  98. │      double the memory on your sound card (so you can play 1 meg files   │
  99. │      on 1/2 meg cards). This will result (how could it be) in a loss     │
  100. │      of quality. If you have less than one meg on your UltraSound        │
  101. │      card, this feature will be activated automatically. As soon as      │
  102. │      DSM is active, the free memory in the GUS window will be written    │
  103. │      in red chars.                                                       │
  104. │                                                                          │
  105. │   Changes from Verzion 1.3o to 2.oo                                      │
  106. │    - last final release, added support for DMF versions created using    │
  107. │      X-TRACKER V1.0 final.                                               │
  108. │    - for more information: read the (now noe more) secret scroller, the  │
  109. │      command line add-on for this is /SHOWMEASECRET (easy, huh?!)        │
  110. │                                                                          │
  111. │   Changes from Verzion 2.oo to 2.o1                                      │
  112. │    - errm, this is a new version with some changes and bugfixes. Just    │
  113. │      something to use instead of the older one. Have phun ;)             │
  114. │    - fixed DOUBLE SOUND MEM feature.                                     │
  115. │                                                                          │
  116. │   Changes from Verzion 2.o1 to 2.o2                                      │
  117. │    - ahem. Sorry! Ray did it again ;) Killed a few bugs and implemented  │
  118. │      a new one. On some systems, X-PLAY crashed. It should work now.     │
  119. │      I hope so ;) If not, just call me and tell me the error number.     │
  120. │      Thanks!                                                             │
  121. │                                                                          │
  122. │   Changes from Verzion 2.o2 to 2.o3                                      │
  123. │    - small bug fixed for CD rom usage. Now X-PLAY will also load         │
  124. │      "read-only" files. Wow, that was a cute one.... ;)                  │
  125. │      Non public version. Only available together with the commercial     │
  126. │      version of X-TRACKER.                                               │
  127. │                                                                          │
  128. │   Changes from Verzion 2.o3 to 2.1o                                      │
  129. │    - catched another bug (setting the master volume from the command     │
  130. │      line did not work) and implemented the setting for the DMA buffer.  │
  131. │      Beside finding some really minor bugs I also revised the error      │
  132. │      handling. X-PLAY should now no more reset in error cases. As I      │
  133. │      said: it SHOULD not... ;)                                           │
  134. │                                                                          │
  135. │   Changes from Verzion 2.1o to 2.2o                                      │
  136. │    - added nice color settings. Some bugs fixed, too. Added enhancements │
  137. │      for support of SB AWE32 as soon as the new drivers are ready.       │
  138. │                                                                          │
  139. │                                   Goodbye and keep on raving - yours RAY │
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