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History of Changes for Muse/2
Key
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S3M,MOD,MTM,WOW,XM,STM,669,ULT,IT,FAR - File Formats
MBF - MOD Based Formats, MTM, MOD, STM, WOW (ProTracker command set)
FMT - All File formats
DM - Digital Mixer
BSE - Base Code
MMP - MMPM/2
GUS - Gravis UltraSound Native Digital Mixer
TUI - Tiny UI (Obsolete)
TXT - Text UI
DRT - DART
WAV,AU,RAW - Output File Formats
OFT - All output file formats
Date Key Change
-------- --- -----------------------------------------------------------------
-- Released 1.3 on hobbes!
07-29-96 IT Added IT2 support
07-20-96 TXT Fixed some minor bugs
07-20-96 --- Getting ready form release of 1.3 (yes, an actual release :P)
-- Took a little break to experiment with some new song list code and
some PM code :>
05-13-96 MBF All working again, supporting pattern skip.
05-11-96 MBF Fixed 00 infobyte on volume slides, and fixed STM tremor.
05-10-96 MBF Altered arpeggio, it is still not 100% correct, but it sounds
S3M much better.
05-10-96 MBF Fixed Horrible Vibrato bug
05-10-96 S3M Fixed Square Wave to match st3 and emulated a ST3 vibrato quirk
05-10-96 MOD Upgraded to the new system, Fixed a corrupted song loader bug
05-09-96 S3M Fixed small vibrato bug
05-09-96 S3M Added pattern skip/backwards, upgraded to new system, slightly
smaller
05-01-96 SFX Removed all SFX code, will be added in a more powerfull way soon
05-01-96 BSE Radically changed effect handling (Pitch/Speed) and improved,
channel mute and channel efx are now coded (TextUI NOT updated to
do this yet)
05-01-96 DM Added realtime pattern display, can now show current time, order
GUS speed row etc (TextUI NOT updated to do this yet though)
05-01-96 BSE Changed format of pattern data and instrument data (all File
Formats will need a LARGE upgrade)
04-07-96 IT Massive IT playback improvments (Thanx to Ozone!)
04-07-96 IT Fixed a small loader and playback bug as well as better corrupted
song handling
04-07-96 GUS Fixed ultraclicks in pingpong loops
-- 1.2me on s3m.dfwmm.net
04-05-96 DM Added Dynamic Scale Control (DSC) hit D in the ui
04-04-96 TXT Added un-RAR support (however it is slow, cause RAR doesn't work
very well in pipe mode)
04-03-96 DM Added several more filters
03-29-96 S3M Changed which commands occur on frame 0
03-27-96 IT Added Impulse Tracker Playback
03-21-96 S3M Changed the 00 infobyte handling to emulate st3 and Emulates ST3's
V command
03-20-96 TXT Made the instrument display use hex volumes
03-16-96 ULT Added ULT file support
03-16-96 TXT -ls option to loop the songlist
03-15-96 669 Added 669 file support
03-13-96 MOD Recognizes mod.* as a mod file.
03-13-96 DRT Fixed the way dart would chop the last 3 seconds from the song
03-13-96 S3M Fixed s3m chips
03-13-96 MBF Fixed pattern loop and fine slide
03-13-96 S3M Changed handling of 0 Global Vol songs and fixed a bug in global
volume
03-07-96 DM Fixed a chip sample bug in > 88kHz chips
03-06-96 DM Improved speed, After Midnight CDE.mtm lost +13% on my machine.
Also arranged for 16 bit samples to NOT be downsampled to 8 bit
but for 8 bit samples to be upsampled to 16 bit, in the process
about 1M of arrays were removed.
03-05-96 S3M Fixed vibrato pitch restore and tremor volume restore
03-05-96 S3M Fixed retrig/vibrato combo
03-05-96 MBF Fixed vibrato pitch restore and tremor volume restore (stm)
03-04-96 TXT Changed the instrument screen a bit
03-04-96 STM Added the full STM player
03-01-96 XM Added the full XM player
02-28-96 DRT Mucked with DART
02-17-96 MOD Fixed DOPE, all FT II mods are now rounded.
02-17-96 ALL Removed the need for HC*.dll
02-17-96 DM Pentium optimized the mixer routine
02-17-96 WOW Added WOW support
02-17-96 MOD *.NST recognized as a mod
02-17-96 MOD Names given to some song tags have changed.
02-16-96 OFT Added all the output file formats, see -f option for specifing
file name, all player features are supported.
02-16-96 DM Added mono support eg, -o"22k -m6"
02-16-96 TXT Added -v# to set the default volume.
02-14-96 TXT Fixed -B
02-14-96 GUS DIV/0 fixed
02-09-96 ALL 1.2 Alpha test
02-08-96 S3M Fixed a small bug, attempts to play insts > # of insts do not play
instead of playing the last one, [cant.s3m]
02-08-96 TXT Added several more command files, a few do things not possible
from the UI.
02-07-96 MOD Made the loader more like the S3M one, totally unconcerned about
truncated songs. Loads every song I have now, including 10 it
didn't before (they were corrupted).
02-07-96 GUS Added pause and resume to the gus driver, also tuned the click
removal. Fixed GPF with leave.mtm (corrupted song)
02-01-96 TXT Captured all errors from unzip and fixed the problem with songs
that didn't load right, it no longer exits.
01-28-96 DRT Added bit rate and sampling rate autodetect
01-28-96 MMP Added bit rate and sampling rate autodetect
01-28-96 DM Upgraded the Digital Mixer to support pitch and speed
01-28-96 TXT Cached the song title for disply when flipping through the song
list
01-28-96 S3M Enhanced corrupted song handling (Distant3.s3m)
01-26-96 GUS Upgraded the GUS driver to support alot of the new features
01-26-96 TXT Added the volume control (-,+,=), pitch control (F1 F2), speed
control (F3 F4) and various combos of the above, (F5,F6, F7,F8)
01-25-96 GUS Fixed a GPF on loading some songs
01-25-96 TXT Wrote some rexx cmd files to use the pipe
01-24-96 TXT Added a remote control pipe system (see muse2rmt.cmd). This
allows TOTAL control over a running copy of muse. Thanks to
Khyron/Roberte for the Idea
01-23-96 TXT Added a detached mode to the UI, uses less ram/cpu etc.
01-22-96 TXT Added a neat little Size of Song list indicator, determines the
total amount of space all the songs use (uncompressed). Also added
-L option and L key.
01-20-96 TXT Added a new set of graphics for the display, thanks to Wizdom!
-U2 will bring back the old set.
01-19-96 TXT Created the Text UI, basically a complete rewrite of the Tiny UI
this new version has many improvments, including better song list
handling (now does ZIP's) A few more keys and a brighter future!
(Tiny UI is now gone). Few things to try:
- Hold down [ or ] with a bunch of songs, great for seeking in
the play list
- The \ key randomly selects a song
- Bit better Help screen
- Now works with screen widths > 80
- Added -R and -W options (see H screen for info)
01-04-96 GUS Beta'd the GUS driver
01-04-96 FMT Added -l option, prevents song looping
01-04-96 MBF Fixed (or broke) command 13, skip pattern to row (Don't have a
song that uses it)
12-29-95 DM Fixed a clip problem in CRM&CRYS.MTM, also effected other songs,
ONLY in 8 bit mode
12-13-95 MOD Fixed the jump to order command
12-13-95 MOD Fixed the untagged 31 sample loader, was thinking a few 15 samp
songs were 31
12-13-95 S3M Rewrote loader, faster and smaller (also loads songs that have
been truncated like book.s3m)
12-13-95 TUI Autodetect Added, check out the -V option!
12-12-95 DRT More Functions added, doesn't effect the player
12-09-95 MMP Autodetect Added
12-09-95 DRT Autodetect Added
12-09-95 DM More SFX Funcions, PlaySFX and SetVolumes
11-29-95 DM Minor bugfixes for SFX
11-29-95 DRT Minor bugfixes for SFX
11-26-95 All Placed on hobbes as V1.1
11-25-95 TUI Changed the stats screen, now show song comments for MTMs
11-25-95 DM Allowed # to be used instead of % in the scaling.
11-23-95 DM Added amplfication scaling -o"22k 300% -6"
11-23-95 TUI Fixed display of sample names
11-22-95 MTM Added MTM support
11-22-95 DM Added 16 bit sampl