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2.11 (Released 5-Jul-1996) At the South Sealand Party '96
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Attention:
The next version of APlayer is probably not to appear before this years
Christmas-time, because of some major plans:
· The whole APlayer code will be rewritten/converted to C. This will
hopefully make a portation to other computer platforms/CPU's easier.
In the future we will hopefully get Power Amigas, or maybe the Bebox
will gain market (it looks like a possible cool platform :)
· Because a conversion/rewriting is a very hard and lengthy
process, the next APlayer will as mentioned probably not appear
before Christmas 96.
· While reprogramming the whole stuff, a new and improved graphical
interface will be implemented (Not MUI), including font sensitivity,
4/8 colour interface (probably MagicWB-style) and even more along the
road.
We hope that you, the user of APlayer, can understand and accept our
decisions on the way APlayer is going to develop in the future.
Because the rewriting demands pretty much from the one and only
programmer, Thomas Neumann, he can not also use any time for developing
new players, noteplayers or fix bugs.
Therefore we ask you to step forward and be a volunteer! Can you
program Amiga assembler, do you have some (or much) knowlegde of the
amiga audio system ? and do you want to become part of the APlayer
project ?
Then here is your chance .. Write a letter (E-mail) to one of the
addresses you find here. We will ofcourse supply you
with any information/source you need to be a developer.
We are looking forward to some hopefully serious contacts :)
Now have fun with APlayer 2.11 ..
Added Features:
- Added the Worms multi sample saver module, which enables everyone to
convert and use PC-Worms samplebanks with Worms for the Amiga - YEAH!
- Added ping-pong support in the FastTracker II player.
- Added the Digibooster player.
- Added the THX Sound System player.
Changes:
- The test routine for Soundtracker 15 and 31 has been rewritten, it
should work properly in any case now.
- All sample players now uses a priority of 4 instead of 9. This should
help most crashing problems.
- The SID player now supports scopes.
Bugfixes:
- A problem depending on a combination between double buffering
and restarting an already loaded module, causing a serious breakdown,
has been fixed.
- The scopes can now open even if the APlayer window isn't.
They will just open on the default public screen.
- Some fonts would cause the Multi sample saver listviews to be too high.
- APlayer 2.1 saved the .win prefs file with a wrong version number in
it. This caused it not to be loaded afterwards because the number was
too high - ups! :)
- A lot of bugs has been removed from the Fasttracker II (XM) and
ScreamTracker3 (S3M) players. Hopefully no more random gurus occurs
now. YES!
- Fixed a lot of bugs in the multi sample saver.
- Fixed a minor bug in the module author routine.
Known Bugs:
- With some Amigaguide library and datatype version, APlayer will crash on
startup on some Amigas.