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- Recent updates to !DSEdit:
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- v1.03 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- 22 June '91
- Fixed a teensy bug that sometimes introduced distortion when using MaxAmp
- (OK, I admit it, I got the formula back-to-front, so it was always wrong!)
- Convert ⇨ Sun now selects the correct playback speed (8kHz) automagically
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- v1.02 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- 18 May '91
- Added "Convert ⇨ Sun" menu option
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- Altered polling so that if DSEdit run by double-clicking a sound file, the
- DSEdit icon appears BEFORE the sound is loaded. This is much nicer,
- especially if you have to wait for a big sound to load from floppy
- Somehow it's much better like this. I wish all app.s would do it!
-
- Added 'Filetype' option to auto-filetype loaded files. ALWAYS defaults to
- 'Off', as it's dangerous but useful.
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- Finally got around to writing code for Adjust-drags: Now they alter one
- end of the selected area rather than starting new drag as Select does.
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- Noticed that after about 9 months I have started hacking at DSEdit again,
- despite looming work and assignment deadlines!
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-
- v1.01 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Added:
- Max Amplify
- Auto Centre
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- (This includes a new bit of machine-code: 'popcount', which returns the
- max,min byte values used by the sample)
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- v1.00 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Squeeze, Move Centre, and Limit Up/Down options connected to the
- interface!
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- Minor bug fixes
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- DSEdit now reads screen mode information correctly. It should now function
- fine in overscan and weird screen modes. (Definitely works with all
- standard modes, CC's !NewModes, and several outboard-scrolling modes I
- have)
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- Changed Delete so that it selects the entire sound after a deletion. It
- used to leave a single byte selected where the deleted area was (for
- user's information), but it annoyed me so much I had to change it!
-
- Re-linked in the conversion routines by Edouard Poor that were in DSEdit
- v0.60, which mysteriously disappeared before version 0.96!!!
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- Planned improvements: ======================================================
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- DSEdit may soon have a decent sound-driver!
- This means several improvements are likely:
- - Save sample as stand-alone RM for use in other programs
- - Change play speed as you play sound
- - Save speed/pitch info in sample file
- - Set correct playback pitch upon load
- - 'Cursor' moves across sound as it is played to show which bit being
- played
- and much much more
-
- However, any such release of DSEdit will be SHAREWARE. I will want something
- like NZ$15 (approx. equivalent to £5 english pounds), which is very cheap
- anyway. Some of this money will go to the author of the shareware sound
- driver software I will be using.
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- v1.03?
- Support for more sample filetypes:
- ARMadaeus format
- Data Vox format
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- later...
- Support for sampling boards. (Anyone got any sampling boards they want to
- donate to a good cause?!?)
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- much later...(i.e. "fat chance")
- Partial load off disc if not enough free memory to load entire sound
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- Notes to hackers (Yes, YOU!) ===============================================
- The code for DSEdit was written in '87 for Arthur, re-written for Arthur,
- re-written for RISC OS, re-written again for RISC OS, and then re-written in
- '89 to multitask. It was my first mtasking application (i.e. EVERYTHING in
- it was an experiment to see how the WIMP works). As such, the program is a
- mess, and frankly, I don't know how it functions as well as it does!! So
- don't criticise it! (If you don't like it, write one of your own, or shell
- out megabucks for a commercial product that I won't name that doesn't even
- let you load more than one file at at time, and puts all available memory in
- the RMA just in case it will need it (yeugh!) and winge whine snortle...)
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- "If that scrolled by too fast for you to read, then too effing bad."
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