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- Well, here they are the first tracker module players for the Sun
- Sparcstations. There are 2 players, one for the 15 sample modules and one for
- the 32 sample ones (or should that be 31 :-). The code is not that different,
- but I could not be bothered to write an auto detection routine that worked on
- standard input.
-
-
- Usage
- -----
-
- Usage is very simple, either give the player the filename of the module, or if
- the module is compressed(frozen) you can zcat(fcat) and pipe the result into
- the player thus :
-
- str32 module
- zcat module.z | str32
- fcat module.F | str32
-
- If you have a new module and are unsure of which player (str15 or str32) to
- use then try both. If you choose the wrong one then you may get an error
- message or nothing at all will happen (except maybe a core dump :-). For
- this reason I keep my trackers in separate directories so that I know which
- player to use.
-
- Not many effects are implemented, so the result may not be exactly the same as
- an Amiga player, but it is usually OK. The sound quality of the /dev/audio is
- not too hot, so some sounds are lost, usually the bass.
-
-
- Errors
- ------
-
- The only error not totally self-explanatory is the 'corrupt input file' one.
- This sometimes indicates that you have used the wrong player, but
- occassionally it may be that the module is too short by a few bytes. I have
- only come accross this in a couple of cases and just appending a few null
- bytes to the end usually cures this.
-
-
- The Future
- ----------
-
- I may get around to combining the players into a single program and enhancing
- the error detection a bit, but then again I might not :-). If anyone else
- wants to add these functions, add more effects or correct any errors there may
- be in the current programs then please go ahead - I hope the code is
- understandable enough for you.
-
-
- Copyright Stuff
- ---------------
-
- Most of the code is copyright me. The convert routine is copyright Rich
- Gopstein and was borrowed from the iff2ulaw utility. The code is freely
- distributable as long as this message and the copyright messages in the source
- are included. You are welcome to update the source code.
-
-
- Liam Corner - University of Warwick - 1st November 1991
-
- csubt@csv.warwick.ac.uk
- zenith@dcs.warwick.ac.uk
-
-
-
- Version 1.2 - 3rd November 1991
- -------------------------------
-
- Thanks to Marc Espie for doing most of the first update. There is now only
- one player str15 and a link from str32 to str15, so you will still have to
- choose the correct player for a given module. There is now output showing
- module name, sample names and progress through the module as it plays. More
- effects are implemented and a bug with the sample repeat loop has been fixed.
-
-