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░░▒▒▓▓████████ T O T A L L Y U N L I M I T E D ░░▒▒▓▓████████
▓▓████ ██████ * M O D M A N v 1 . 7 * ▓▓████ ██████
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██ ██ ██ ██ (c) 1994.01.02 ██ ██ ██ ██
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██ ██████ ▓▓ by Tom Rathborne of Totally Unlimited ██ ██████ ▓▓
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████████▓▓▒▒░░ MODMAN is Freeware! ████████▓▓▒▒░░
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│ (but if you like it, you can still send money!) │
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└────── My neat logo encompassing the T and the U ──────┘
Portions (C) Copyright 1992-1993 Andy Hakim
┌──────────╖
──┤ CONTENTS ╟─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
╘══════════╝
ABOUT MODMAN
USING MODMAN
THE CONFIGURATION FILE
FORMATS SUPPORTED
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
OTHER STUFF
THANKS
FUTURE FEATURES
HISTORY
┌──────────────╖
──┤ ABOUT MODMAN ╟─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
╘══════════════╝
MODMAN is a great program. I'm really proud of it. Believe me, you have
to try it! I use it all the time to make cassette tapes of my module
collection! Since it's freeware, it doesn't benefit me one bit if you
use it.
* Send me your ideas and I'll do my best to put them into MODMAN! *
On the PC scene, there are tons of different formats of .MOD (Module)
music files. Along with these formats are a whole bunch of players.
Some players can play only a few module formats, some can play many.
Some modules can be played by most players, some can only be played by
one or two. MODMAN allows you to quickly and easily select from a
directory of modules, associating each module with a player that
supports it. Then it makes a batch file and plays your selections.
I've tried quite a few other mod-selection programs. MODShell is okay.
DMPShell is very good, but I wasn't satisifed. I think MODMAN blows all
of them away. I know you'll agree.
Configuring MODMAN is a little complicated. I have included lots of
sample configurations for you to fiddle with. Basically, it's all set
up in the sample MODMAN.CFG - you just have to remove the players that
you don't have, and add the ones that you do!
MODMAN takes up exactly 0k of RAM while playing MODs! A batch file runs
MODMAN, which creates a temporary batch when you have selected your
modules. Then the first batch file runs the temporary batch file which
plays your MODs. This leaves plenty of RAM free for your players.
Although MODMAN takes up 0k of RAM while playing, yes that's right NO
RAM, the memory requirements of MODMAN (while running) will vary
depending on the number of MODs you have in one directory. The maximum
number that MODMAN will read in one directory is 1024. If anyone has
more than that in one directory, let me know and I can tell you to make
some subdirectories. I don't anticipate any memory allocation errors.
MODMAN is, of course, freeware! That means you can copy MODMAN all you
want, as long as you don't modify it, and you include these files:
MM.BAT
MODMAN.CFG
MODMAN.DOC
MODMAN.EXE
FILE_ID.DIZ (Please make sure that this description gets into the
BBS file listing if you upload MODMAN to a BBS.)
Support freeware by using and distributing it! Of course, if you have
any questions or comments, or if you think MODMAN is worth a few $,
[especially if you want to send money... :-)] please contact me.
┌──────────────╖
──┤ USING MODMAN ╟─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
╘══════════════╝
DON'T RUN MODMAN.EXE - RUN MM.BAT!
MODMAN requires a VGA card.
MM.BAT runs MODMAN and then plays any modules that were selected. Don't
run MODMAN.EXE by itself.
*** ESC TO EXIT ***
*** F1 FOR HELP ***
As of version 1.3, MODMAN uses a custom font, and does various neat
things to your VGA card. Everything should go back to normal when it
exits. If anything DOESN'T go back to normal, please let me know.
When you exit MODMAN, it will leave you in 50-line mode if that's the
mode you started in, but if you started in anything less than that,
then you will be returned to 25-line mode. Feel free to edit MM.BAT to
do whatever you want to your sound or video options. Make sure you keep
a copy of the original just in case you make a mistake!
MODMAN is simple to use. All keys are listed on the right of the
screen, and a more detailed keyboard reference is available by pressing
F1 then F2. Here's a sample of the important part of the screen...
[ A "B" to the left of a line means that line has a blue background.
An "R" to left means that line has a red background. Remember that
a red and blue background makes magenta. ]
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Directory ═> ║ C:\MODS
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Module file ║ Module Title │ Module Format │Seq.#
──────────────╫──────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┼─────
B MOONSNTA.669 ║ Moonlight Sonata... │ Composer 669 Module │ 1
B CANONMIX.AMF ║ Johann Pachelbel │ Advanced Module Format │ 3
BR GONADSCR.MOD ║ Gonads Cracks │ ProTracker │ 2
PLASTIC .S3M ║ World of plastic │ Scream Tracker 3 Module │
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Player file ║ Player Name & Description │Version│OK?│Used#
──────────────╫──────────────────────────────────────┼───────┼───┼─────
R DMP .EXE ║ Dual Module Player │ 2.60ß │ √ │ 2
B WOWII .EXE ║ WOW ][ Module player │ 1.31 │ √ │ 1
MP .COM ║ ModPlay Pro │ 2.1