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Introduction

Once upon a time, people started creating music on an exciting new medium called home computer, developing and utilizing exciting new techniques and establishing a whole new musical trend. Due to the immature nature of the computer medium, musicians were forced to be creative with small resources, as the lack of hardware power restricted them to using small amounts of memory and small amounts of processor speed. As time went by, the first useful tools for editing computer music became a standard. The famous 'tracker series (which originated on the legendary Amiga with Karsten Obarski's Soundtracker) is probably the best known example. The 'tracker range's characteristic 'module' format, containing all the necessary music data in one file, is very practical and was quickly copied by other music editors. As a wide variety of music editors became available, people started to long for a universal program that could play the various types of modules, so that they wouldn't have to keep on collecting all the different editors. Several module players appeared in the computer scene, but only a few kept evolving to match the quickly changing demands of the module listening public. DeliTracker was one of 'the' module players on the Amiga. It has been completly rewritten and is now available on the Windows platform as 'DeliPlayer'. DeliPlayer plays most of the classic sound routines that gave the Amiga its distinctive and varied sound! Amiga fans, imagine playing your old favorite Amiga tunes on your PC, with 16-bit interpolated sound quality, mixed stereo and a lot more! PC fans, imagine playing your favorite modules from various editors in one very versatile yet user-friendly environment, stuffed with attractive options! DeliPlayer is available for Windows 95/98 and NT/2000 on Intel and compatible processors. Supported file formats include:

Features

Here is the complete list of (172) sound-formats currently supported by DeliPlayer:
8 channel SoundTracker A.M.Composer 1.2 AC1D Packer AHX v2
AProSys AU-SND Actionamics AmosMusicBank
ArtOfNoise AudioSculpture BugSoundTracker C64-SID
CDDA Channel Players ChipTracker Composer669
Customplay Digital Illusions DSS DeltaMusic
DeltaMusic 1.0 DeltaMusic 2.0 DigiBooster 1.x DigiBooster Pro
Digital Mugician DigitalTracker 1.0 Dynamic Synthesizer EMS
EarAche Eureka Packer FaceTheMusic FastTracker 2
FC-M Packer FollinPlayer II FredEditor FuchsTracker
Future Composer 1.3 Future Composer 1.4 FutureComposer Fuzzac Packer
Game Music Creator GMOD GlueMon GraveComposer
HeatSeeker mc1.0 Hippel Hippel-COSO Hippel-ST
Hornet Packer Icetracker IFF-8SVX IFF-AIFF
ImpulseTracker 1.x ImpulseTracker 2.x JayTrax JS-Player
JamCracker Jason Brooke Jason Page Old Jason Page
Jesper Olsen Kefrens Sound Machine Laxity-Tracker LeglessMusicEditor
M.O.N. M.O.N. old Magnetic Fields Mark II
Martin Walker MED MED Song MMDC
MPEG Audio Medley modCRUSHER Module Protector
MultiTracker Music-Assembler MusicLineEditor MusicMaker
NESA NSF NoisePacker 1.0/2.0 NoisePacker 3.0
NoiseRunner NoiseTracker NoiseTracker Pak OctaMED
OctaMED SoundStudio Octalyser Oktalyzer PSA
PanPacker Paul Shields Peter Verswyvelen Pha Packer
Pierre Adane Packer PolkaPacker PolyTracker Power Music
PowerTracker Promizer 0.1 Promizer 1.x Promizer 2.0
Promizer 4.0 ProPacker 1.0 ProPacker 2.1 ProRunner 1.0
ProRunner 2.0 ProRunner 2.1 ProTracker PumaTracker
Pygmy Packer QuadraComposer Quartet RIFF-WAV
Richard Joseph RobHubbard 2 SCUMM Player ScreamTracker 3
Sean Connolly Sean Conran Sidmon 1.0 Sidmon 2.0
SKYT Packer SonicArranger SoundControl SoundFX 1.3
SoundFX 2.0 SoundImages SoundMon 1.0 SoundMon 2.0
SoundMon 2.2 SoundTracker 15 SoundTracker 2.6 SoundTracker 31
Soundcontrol Soundfactory ST-Cruncher StarTrekker 4
StarTrekker 8 StarTrekker Packer SymphonyPleasure Synth Dream
Synth Pack Synthesis SynTracker TFMX 1.x
TFMX 7V TFMX Pro TME TakeTracker
The Player 4.0a The Player 4.0b The Player 4.1a The Player 5.0a
The Player 6.0a The Player 6.1a TheHolyNoise Tracker Packer 1
TrackerPacker 2/3 UNIC-Tracker Unique Development Ultimate SoundTracker
Vorbis VSS WantonPacker Whittaker
X-Tracker YMst (MYST) Xann Packer Zen Packer


Color legend: Emulated, Converted, Native DeliPlayer's features include:


Registering Filetypes with DeliPlayer

If you want to automatically play tunes with DeliPlayer whenever you double click them you can use the Extension Registration Tool which is installed together with DeliPlayer.

Concept

DeliPlayer's main concept is the Client-Server model. The server is the player itself, controlling all plugins.
All other components like the Panel (the GUI to control DeliPlayer) and the Playlist are clients.
The player engine itself uses plugins to expand its capabilities. Without the plugins the engine can not play anything.
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2000-11-26