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Graphical CMF Player version 1.00 Documentation 12/30/92
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by
Greg Bohmann
A River Stone Software Publishing Company production
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<* Introduction *>
Introduction: Graphical Cmf Player is a utility designed to play your .CMF files.
It can play every type of .CMF file there is including the ones made for the
SB Pro and the SB CMS Chip! This program was written because there wasn't a
good CMF Player around including PLAYCMF. Creative Labs PLAYCMF told you
absolutely nothing about the file or your system that you might need to know
at that particular time. PLAYCMF had a feature that let it play in the
background, however this took up 90k of memory and didn't work very well.
Well, GCMFP can do it - WITHOUT TAKING UP ANY MEMORY AT ALL! This is
included but there is one drawback - you have to REGISTER to get it!
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<* Info *>
Info: Graphical CMF Player (GCMFP) displays a screen that can be used on CGA,
EGA, or VGA moniters. You're given the option to pause and continue the song
(tells it on the screen). The format to use GCMFP is GCMFP filename.ext.
You MUST include the file name extention. Currently GCMFP will only support
one file from the command line. However, in future versions GCMFP might
support more than one. If you'd like to do this now, you'll need to write
a batch file.
Example: copy con mysongs.bat
GCMFP song1.cmf
GCMFP song2.cmf
etc..
When you want to save press <CTRL-Z>
GCMFP will tell some info about your sound card like its hex address interrupt
line and various things like that presuming that you have a Sound Blaster. It
will also tell you the size, name, drive, directory of the file its currently
playing. GCMFP will also tell you when you started playing the song and when
GCMFP exits it will tell you the time ended. This is useful for determining the
length of a particular CMF file. The date is also shown on the screen. Just
to annoy you to REGISTER, there will be some flashing red "REGISTER" messages.
GCMFP will not work if you haven't run the SBFMDRV.EXE or compatible driver.
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<* Registration Info *>
Registration Info: You might think, "Why should I register?". Well the answer
is that this program is SHAREWARE. It's illegal to use this program for more
than 30 days. The concept is try before you buy, and because people just keep
trying and never buying, it forces software authors like me to put annoying
things like PLEASE REGISTER in our programs. And having to add things as
incentives to get you to register. Some software Author's overcharge for
their product, so GCMFP is very inexpensive.
How To Register: Registration costs a mere 10$ or you can send me a disk
and a SASE with $5 to register. <- Now thats a bargin!!
What's Included: When you register, you'll get the latest REGISTERED version.
The REGISTERED program includes your name and your company name on the screen
when you start the program. As an added bonus, the registered GCMFP (RGCMFP)
can play .CMF files in the background while you do what ever you need to do
in DOS (Music DOS). It takes up NO MEMORY to do this! Unfortunately though,
if you run a program that modifies the Heap Memory while the song is playing
the song will stop. But, you say, if it takes up no memory then why does the
song stop playing when the HEAP memory is modified. Well the answer is
that GCMFP writes to it (heap memory) similiar to a disk so it reads off the
heap memory when it is playing. This is how its able to take up no memory
because the heap is just erased every time a different program needs it.
That's why GCMFP will not become a TSR when you use it to play .CMF songs in
the background and it won't show up in DOS's "MEM" or "MEM /C" commands.
Any suggestions made to improve this program will be considered and maybe
implemented! Every suggestion counts - especially from registered users :-).
You will also gain the ability to transpose the music - i.e. make middle C
go down an octave or up one or higher.
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<* Disclaimer *>
Disclaimer: River Stone Software Publishing Company is not liable
for any harm that might be done while using GCMFP. By using
this Software you agree to these terms. We will be glad
to help you in any way we can to help you solve your problem.
Of corse, after you register you can't distrubute registered copies
to anyone but yourself. When you register, the software becomes
like a book - only read by one person. Still the UNREGISTERED
version can be given to people, but as stated above, the REGISTERED
one can not. Please support the shareware concept and not misuse it.
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<* Author's Notes *>
A Few Last Notes: Any feedback on this product would be great! I'm especially
interested to find out if this works well on a Pro Audio
Spectrum, Thunder Board, and other SB compatibles. I
haven't been able to test GCMFP with them yet. I can
be reached for feedback at:
On INTERNET: bo@infopls.chi.il.us
On Fido Net: The London Under Ground
1:115/858.0
For the latest versions call one of these fine boards:
The London Under Ground (708) 680-9420 <- Most likely
Suburban Software (708) 636-6694
River Grove (708) 453-5589
All of these boards have a baud rate of 14.4k or higher
Whether you register or not, River Stone Software Publishing Company
thanks you, for trying their product.