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From comp.sys.amiga.announce Mon Jun 1 22:27:31 1992
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From: Bryan.Ford@m.cc.utah.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.announce
Subject: MultiPlayer source code available under GPL
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Date: 1 Jun 92 16:10:25 GMT
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TITLE
MultiPlayer
VERSION
1.30 (release date May 25, 1992)
AUTHOR
Bryan Ford (bryan.ford@m.cc.utah.edu)
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
It's Christmas again for music lovers: MultiPlayer has "gone GNU."
Starting from version 1.30, MultiPlayer is now distributed under the
GNU General Public License, with full source code available, to be copied
and modified freely by anyone.
The main reason for this is that I no longer have a large amount of
time to devote to the development of MultiPlayer. While at first this
change in distribution may seem unfair to my registered users who paid for
the registered version of MultiPlayer, I believe it would be much less fair
to keep development of MultiPlayer all to myself, limiting the
functionality of the program to whatever I have time to implement.
Moreover, my registration policy is still fully in effect, under
slightly different conditions. Now, when you register, instead of paying
for the un-crippled version of the program, you are paying for almost
completely free upgrades, announcements of major new versions as they
appear (such as this announcement), and the right to suggest improvements
you'd like me to make to MultiPlayer if you can't or don't want to do them
yourself. (I will generally ignore such requests from unregistered users,
since I am receiving no compensation or support from them.) Of course, if
you don't want any of these benefits, you are not obliged to register. The
registration fee is still the same low $15 that it always was.
MultiPlayer version 1.30, both binaries and source code, is available
by FTP or E-mail on the Internet (see below) or from me directly (see
Player.doc). The source code is currently in a very bad state as far as
readability goes, and it contains quite a few ugly hacks that need to be
worked out of the system. Most internal functions are not documented at
all, and those that are have pretty sketchy comments. Therefore, while you
are free to try and figure out (and modify if you dare) the source code as
it is, you may want to wait until I get the internals organized in a more
presentable manner. I will probably be working on this for the next few
months.
Note that version 1.30 of the program itself is not a really
significant change from 1.20; the real "change" with this version is the
change in distribution policy. There are some improvements, however - see
below for a list.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
General-purpose multitasking player for music modules. Supports over
20 Popular module formats such as Protracker and MED.
Provides volume, balance, and speed controls (with NTSC/PAL speed
presets), both master and per-module.
Allows you to build module "programs" which are played in random order,
in sequence, or only when you select them. Allows you to load and save
these programs and use them like normal modules.
Allows module selection through two Workbench 2.0 AppWindows and
AppIcons.
Supports 2.0 commodities exchange so it can stay resident without any
windows, and you can pop it up with a hot key.
Provides four optional, individiually selectable "flashy" windows: a
standard note/volume spectrogram, a stereo waveform scope, a four-channel
scope, and a miniature scrolling note display (looks like a tracker
program, but you can't read the notes).
Auto-detaches from the CLI and uses a custom overlay system for minimal
memory usage.
Includes an ARexx port similar to that of RxTracker.
Compatible with any Amiga model, any processor, multitasks well, no
special memory requirements.
NEW FEATURES (since 1.20)
1.30 (R3, 25-May-92)
GNU-ized and released with full source code.
1.21 (R2, unreleased)
Icon 8-colorized. (Thanks Barry McConnell!)
The "Protracker tempo commands" option is now on by default.
Protracker player now uses the audio.device NotePlayer, so all Protracker
playing is now completely system-friendly.
Some windows rearranged significantly.
Other minor bug fixes and enhancements.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
Kickstart 2.0 or later.
HOST NAME
amiga.physik.unizh.ch
DIRECTORY
/amiga/new
/amiga/music
FILE NAME
MultiPlayer130.lha
MultiPlayer130Src.lha (source code)
OTHER
If you don't have FTP access, E-mail me and I'll send you a uuencoded
copy. It's no trouble for me, and a whole lot quicker than sending it
through comp.binaries.amiga (which is dead at the moment). I will ONLY
send the binary archive through E-mail: the source code archive is much
larger, and it would be impolite at best to distribute it to many people
through E-mail. Also, to keep the archive size down, the non-overlaid
version and the GMOD and NotePlayer files are not included in the E-mail
distribution. If you have no FTP access and want the full distribution,
you can get it from me through standard mail. See Player.doc (included in
the E-mail distribution) for details.
DISTRIBUTABILITY
General Public License.
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