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* DeliTracker *
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© 1992 by Delirium
$VER: V1.36 (07.01.1993)
1. CONTENTS
1.CONTENTS
2.LICENSING AND DISTRIBUTION
3.INTRODUCTION
3.1 What is DeliTracker ?
3.2 Why use DeliTracker ?
4. GETTING STARTED
4.1 System requirements
4.2 Starting from CLI/Shell
4.3 Starting from Workbench
4.4 Installation
5. BASICS
5.1 Player
5.2 Packed modules
5.3 Options
5.4 Configuration files
6. HOW TO CONTROL DELITRACKER
6.1 The main window
6.1.1 Gadgets
6.1.2 Menus
6.1.3 Shortcuts
6.1.4 Appwindow
6.2 The preferences window
6.2.1 Gadgets
6.2.2 Shortcuts
6.3 ARexx
6.4 Commodities
7. TROUBLESHOOTING
8. EXTERNAL PLAYER PROGRAMMING INTERFACE
8.1 The external player interface
8.1.1 The structure of external players
8.1.2 The structure of custom modules
8.2 How to build external players
8.2.1 Playerheader
8.2.2 Modulerecognicion
8.2.3 Interrupts
8.3 Tags
8.4 DeliTracker support functions
8.5 Hints and Tips
9. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
2. LICENSING AND DISTRIBUTION
DeliTracker (c) 1991 - 1993 by Peter Kunath and Frank Riffel.
This Program is Shareware. If you like this program and use it
frequently, we encourage you to register. The shareware fee is $US 20
or 20 DM. You may send CASH or EUROCHEQUE's. We cannot accept any other
cheques cause it is not possible for us to cash foreign checks without
having to pay substantial fees to the bank. Registered users will be
shipped a disk with the latest release version of DeliTracker. By
cooperating with this concept you help to ensure continued development
of this product. Please send your registration card (Orderform) and
the money to:
Frank Riffel
Merkstr. 27
8129 Wessobrunn
Germany
You may send bug reports, remarks, and suggestions to this address as
well. If you have written a new soundsystem and you wish to adapt your
replay-routine to DeliTracker, contact us. We will help you.
DeliTracker may be distributed on public-domain, shareware disks, and
electronic networks such as the Internet as longs as the followings
conditions are fulfilled:
° all files must be kept together. You can find a list of all
files in 'Distribution'.
° no part of the distribution may be changed in any way. The only
exception is archiving (e.g. with LhA), but the original files
must be 100% restoreable.
° The price of a disk that contains DeliTracker must be less than
US $6 or 8.- DM. The same is the maximum price that networks
may charge from their users for downloading DeliTracker.
° For use in commercial products the permission of the authors
is required.
DeliTracker was developed and tested very carefully. Nevertheless
the Authors are not responsible for any damages that are caused by
DeliTracker. Use at your own risk.
3.INTRODUCTION
3.1 What is DeliTracker ?
DeliTracker is a soundplayer which supports several soundformats; some
are SoundTracker 15 inst., SoundTracker 31 inst., NoiseTracker,
ProTracker, StarTrekker without AM sounds and CustomPlay. Since these
types are so common, their replay routines are built within DeliTracker
itself. Additional players are loaded from disk, meaning that you can
very easily add/update players by placing them into the DeliPlayers
directory. DeliTracker is NOT a Songeditor, MIDIsequencer or Digitizer.
It is only meant to play music modules in a comfortable way.
3.2 Why use DeliTracker ?
There are many reasons for using DeliTracker; here is only a small list:
° system friendly and multitasks happily
° allocates the soundchannels
° correct playspeed in PAL/NTSC (uses timerinterrupts)
° works well with serial.device
° supports xpkmaster.library for decrunching
° supports up to 64 players
° runs fine with 680x0
° ARexx support
° has a configfile
° enforcer and mungwall proof
° supports full CLI or Workbench (ToolTypes) environment
° easy to use & looks good
° has Volume/Balance sliders
° resident cli startup
° supports multiselect
° PubScreen support
° hotkey (Commoditiy)
° modules can be played by simply dropping the moduleicon into
the mainwindow (Appwindow).
° written in 100% Assembler
4. GETTING STARTED
4.1 System requirements
As of version 1.31 and beyond DeliTracker requires at least Workbench
and Kickstart 2.0 (aka V37). We recomend the usage of Workbench 2.1
(or 3.0), because the ASL Filerequester of V38 and above is much faster
and supports multiselect. If you want to use packed modules, the
'xpkmaster.library' and the corresponding sublibraries must be installed.
Make sure that you use V2 of XPK! V1 is NOT sufficient. DeliTracker
requires at least 70KB of memory. Additional memory is needed for every
loaded player, for the current modulelist and the decrunched module. Of
course your System should be equiped with a Monitor that has speakers or
even better with a HiFi system.
4.2 Starting from CLI/Shell
Open a Shell or CLI window and CD to the directory where DeliTracker is
located. Now you can type 'DeliTracker' followed by none/one/more options
explained in 5.4. The options and arguments should be separated by spaces.
DeliTracker automatically detatches from the CLI and you may close the
CLI window. If a wrong arument is supplied DeliTracker quits with a short
helptext.
Example: 'DeliTracker config DT.config volume 32 filter 0'
Starts DeliTracker with 'DT.config' as configuration file, turns the
lowpass filter off (not on A1000's) and sets the volume to 32.
4.3 Starting from Workbench
Open the drawer that contains DeliTracker and start it with a double
click. All options can be set as ToolTypes by using the 'Info' item
from the Workbench. The options must be separated by an '=' from the
arguments. Invalid Tooltypes are ignored. DeliTracker can be used as
a 'Default Tool' for automatic playing of modules.
Example: Config=DT.config
PrefWinXY=0/11
Volume=43
CX_Popup=NO
If DeliTracker is started with these tooltypes, it loads 'DT.config' as
the configuration file and sets the volume to 43.
4.4 Installation
If you already use an older version of DeliTracker, please delete all
files of the old distribution and your configuration files before you
install this version.
Copy DeliTracker in a directory of your choosing. Now copy the whole
'DeliPlayers' directory into this place. We strongly suggest that you
move seldom used players from DeliPlayers/ to DeliPlayers/PlayerStore/.
If you don't do this you waste memory! When DeliTracker is started every
player in the 'DeliPlayers' drawer will be loaded. Note: any loaded
player will stay in memory until the user unloads it or DeliTracker is
exited. If you have packed modules you must install the XPK libraries.
A double click on the CopyLibs icon will launch a script that will
install the powerpacker.library and the XPK libraries in LIBS:.
5. BASICS
5.1 Player
With DeliTracker it is possible to load single players. If such a player
is loaded DeliTracker will recognize and play modules of this type.
Currently a maximum of 64 external players may be loaded. This should be
sufficient for awhile. When DeliTracker is started all players in the
'DeliPlayers' directory or the specified playerpath e.g. tooltypes or in
the c