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OctaMEDPlayer V2.00 instructions
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OctaMEDPlayer is a stand-alone player program for playing songs made in
OctaMED. You may freely distribute it with your songs, and it can be
started from both CLI and Workbench.
OctaMEDPlayer V2.0 can load sng+samples-format and MMD0-modules made in MED
V2.10 or later, or any version of OctaMED. It can't load MED songs or
files created with previous versions of MED (1.12 or 2.0). I think it is
more important that OctaMEDPlayer is as compact and quick as possible
instead of the ability to load millions of file formats. You can convert
older files by loading them to OctaMED and saving them back again. Please
note that there may be problems with playing speed when loading modules
saved with MED V2.10. In that case, load the module into OctaMED, correct
the tempo2 (change to 6) and save it back. Also, a bug in module save
routine of MED 3.00 causes some modules to crash when played. You can fix
the modules by loading the module into OctaMED and saving the file back.
OctaMEDPlayer can play "standard" four channel Amiga songs, MIDI songs, 5 -
8 channel OctaMED songs, and the new "multi-modules".
OctaMEDPlayer has the "2.0-look" and it works fine under 2.0 (as well as
1.3, of course).
And now, the usage:
CLI:
medplayer <song> <num>
<song> is optional. If not specified, OctaMEDPlayer window
appears and waits for your interaction. If <song> is
present, then the song is loaded. If it loaded OK,
then the playing will start. Press Ctrl-C to quit.
<num> If the <song> is a multi-module, you can select the
number of the song you want to play.
For example:
medplayer multimod 2 ;plays the second song of "multimod"
Workbench:
You can run OctaMEDPlayer by double-clicking its icon. To
automatically play a song when its icon is clicked, set the
icon default tool (the default setting is OctaMEDPlayer).
You can click the song icon and then shift-double click the
OctaMEDPlayer icon to play that song. OctaMEDPlayer always
opens its window when started from WB.
The OctaMEDPlayer window:
When you start OctaMEDPlayer from WB or CLI without arguments,
the window appears. There you'll find some gadgets that control
the playing.
The string gadget This holds the name of the current song.
You can load a new song by typing its path
and filename into this gadget.
Play Starts playing the song from the beginning.
Cont Plays the current song starting from the
point where you stopped it.
Stop Stops the playing
MIDI:Y/N This gadget allows you to turn MIDI on/off.
It has no affection when in 5 - 8 channel
mode!
Freq Allows you to load a song by using a file-
requester. Note that this requires you to
have ASL.library V37 and AmigaDOS V37, so
you have to get Kickstart V2.0, before you
can use it.
< > With these gadgets you can select the song,
if there's a multi-module in memory.
There's now a some information displayed, when you play a song:
Sg:01/01 S:001/010 B:00/08 L:000
"Sg" shows the number of the current song, and the total number of
songs in this module.
"S" shows the position and the length of the playing sequence list.
"B" shows the current block number and the total number of blocks
in this song.
"L" is the current line number in this block.