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- │ S3MRip │
- │ (c) James Holderness 1993 │
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- Introduction
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- S3MRIP is a simple utility for ripping S3M files from demos. It will only
- work if the executable file does not use any compression (e.g. PKLITE). If
- you use it to try and rip an S2M file, it will probably just hang your
- machine.
-
- Usage
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- S3MRIP filename
-
- where filename is the name of the demo's executable file which may contain
- some S3M files. If any of the modules in the demo contain more than one
- song, each song will be extracted as a seperate file.
-
- Nameing conventions
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- The files extracted are named in the following manner: The name of the
- executable is truncated to 6 characters. Then each module is assigned a
- letter consecutively which is appended to that name (the first module gets
- the letter 'A', the second, the letter 'B', etc.). Then each song in a
- particular module is also assigned a letter, which is also appended to the
- name.
-
- For example, if you are ripping from a demo called EXAMPLE.EXE, which
- contained 3 modules, and the second module was made up of 2 seperate
- songs, the files extracted would be named: EXAMPLAA.S3M (the first module),
- EXAMPLBA.S3M (the first song in the second module), EXAMPLBB.S3M (the second
- song in the second module), and EXAMPLCA.S3M (the third module).
-
- Disclaimer
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- Please note that this is not meant to be used for any illegal purposes. It
- was written so that people that enjoy the S3M music found in demos could
- listen to it without having to watch the whole demo. It is also useful in
- cases where someone's machine may not be powerful enough to run the demo
- with sound. It may or may not be legal for you to distribute any mods you
- may have ripped from a demo, so do not do so unless you have permission
- from the author(s).
-
- Technical notes
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- Any module ripped using this utility will not necessarily be the same as
- the module in the demo, since the program attempts to remove any unused
- samples (this is especially necessary when splitting up multiple songs in
- one module). This has the advantage of possibly making the modules a
- little smaller, but there is also a chance that a module may be ripped
- incorrectly.
-
- What demos use S3M files
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- The only demos that I know of that use S3M files are made by the PC group
- "Future Crew". The following demos by them are known to contain S3M files:
- Fishtro, Unreal, The Party, and Panic.
-
- Note that when ripping files from the Unreal demo, there is one file that
- will be created that is not really a song and can be deleted. It is the
- second song in the third module (the filename should be UNREALCB.S3M).
-
- Contacting me
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- Don't know why anyone would want to do this, but I can be reached at the
- following addresses:
-
- Internet: holderne@beastie.cs.und.ac.za
- (This is the best one to try, but it may not last that long)
- Fido: James Holderness @ 5:7103/7
- (I'm quite slow replying here, and FIDO often looses stuff)
- Snailmail: P.O.Box 1235, Westville, 3630 South Africa
- (I hardly ever reply, and when I do, it takes years)
-