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Songplayer.DOC - A Quick Clarification.
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Date of development : 30-Apr-1988.
Copyrights : MnemoTroN / Silicon League.
(Playroutine by The Jungle Command / D.O.C)
Coding : MnemoTroN and (look at the brackets above).
Instructions : MnemoTroN.
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Task
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Songplayer will play any (I hope) tune composed with the SoundTracker. It
supports all SoundTracker versions upto SoundTracker VI (by D.O.C).
How to use Songplayer
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Songplayer is very easy to use. All you need is the main program, a Sound-
Tracker song and the instruments used by the song. The basic syntax is
Songplayer <songname> [-I] [-O] [-L]
<songname> is the filename of the song you want to play.
The -I (you may also type -i) option forces Songplayer to search the in-
struments on volume ST-01 (the normal instrument disk). Otherwise Song-
player tries to load the instruments from the disk currently in the drive.
The -O (for computers without Shift: -o) option lets Songplayer play the
song only once. With this feature it is possible to make a long-play-disk.
You only have to write a startup-sequence with the Songplayer calls, copy
the songs and instruments on the disk and run it.
The -L option will switch the lowpass-filter off. This feature will only
work with the Amiga 500 and 2000 (sideeffect: the Power-LED darkens).
Sorry, Amiga 1000 users, but your filter isn't connected with PA1 (the pin
that controls the LED) and so the LED will be dark, but the lowpass-filter
is still working (unless you've made a hardware-modification).
Songplayer can be stopped by pressing the left mousebutton. When -O was
given, it will stop by itself after playing the song for one time.
If an error occured, Songplayer will give you the reason why it aborted
loading.
How to make a long-play-disk
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If you want to make a long-play-disk, it would be silly to place all files
in the root directory. A better way: create two directories: "songs" and
"samples". Now you have to Assign ST-01: samples (first command in the
startup-sequence). To load a song, use: Songplayer songs/songname -I -O.
Bugs known
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Sorry, that I have to include this paragraph, but there is a little bug I
have to tell you about. If the songname contains a '-' you have to cancel a
little Requester that appears in the upper left corner named 'System
Request'.
How to contact Silicon League
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Only if you are not a friend of APT you may write to this address:
PLK 113926 C
2800 BREMEN 1
WEST - GERMANY
(Only for letters ! No disks sendings please !)
If you have any suggestions or questions regarding Songplayer, feel free to
write to the address shown above.