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- What's new in Morgul Player:
-
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- Version 1.10 27.11.94 01:54:14
-
- Phew! This release was delayed for over a month, because all
- kinds of stupid things kept me busy.
-
- New features:
-
- - I am now accepting CDs and CD-Roms as VIP registrations.
- There is a VIP section in the regged.txt file for CD and
- money senders.
- - You can now view the current status of the next Morgul
- version by fingering me on the Internet (finger
- tnikkane@clinet.fi). WWW stuff is coming, as well as a
- binary mailing list. When the binary mailing list is
- implemented, you can send mail to:
- morg-bin@kotakk.fi, with subject:
- subscribe Morgul
- with your name in the message body.
- Then you will receive the latest Morgul versions uuencoded
- in your mailbox. Then, later, if you want to unsubscribe,
- send mail to morg-bin@kotakk.fi, with subject unsubscribe
- morgul, message body can contain anything you want. This
- mailing list will probably work a week or two after this
- version is released. You can find out whether or not it
- exists yet by fingering tnikkane@clinet.fi.
- - The EASY filemode is now default, be warned!
- - Added the Easymode option in the configfile.
- - Added realtime reverb effect setup from Ctrl-F.
- - Added a Morgul logo to the gfx mode.
- - F1 now also acts as the help button. The directory save
- feature has been moved to F2.
- - H now gives quick help, and, as always, if the F1/Alt-h
- document help feature can't find the document file, it will
- use the quick help instead.
- - Added support for the HA archiver.
- - There is more free memory in shell.
- - Some stuff moved to overlay (at the end of mo.exe). Do not
- fear the growing size; there IS more memory free because of
- these actions, and the archive is about the same size,
- except that the Morgul logo takes space..
- - Added an option to start in graphics mode (StartInGraphics)
- in the config file.
- - Added Monochrome mode (parameter -m, configfile option
- Monochrome) for laptop systems etc.
- - Deleted the coming.up file and moved the information to the
- end of morgul.faq.
- - Added a (crappy) graphical scope into the graphics mode. You
- can now switch between the volume bars and the scope by
- pressing Alt-1 and Alt-2 in the graphics mode.
- - With F4 you can cycle colors in graphics or text mode one
- step at a time. With F3 you can create a negative image.
- These features are just for playing around without any real
- use.
- - Added channel muting (pausing) to Panning setup screen, the
- key is P.
- - The delete command now also deletes subdirectories (but not
- if they have files inside.)
- - Slightly smarter command line parameter handling.
- - If you press something while Morgul is reading a directory,
- the Quickmode will become default ( that is, Morgul won't
- read the songnames from the rest of the modules. ) I noticed
- this to be a very good feature after getting a CD-Rom with
- 700+ modules :)
- - Samples can now also be saved in Signed raw format (the
- Amiga format)
- - Default panning is now 40. This means that on stereo sound
- boards, the channel panning is NOT 100% Left-And-Right but a
- bit more to the middle. You can change it with the -n
- parameter or with the config file.
- - Saved directory files are now new format. If Morgul sees old
- format files, it will delete them and reread the directories
- and then save the new format files automatically.
-
- Bugfixes:
-
- - You can now use Morgul under OS/2 with a GUS. If Morgul
- detects OS/2, it automatically forces the -g and -gt
- parameters!
- - Added the -gt parameter for GUS, it disabled GUS timer usage
- and uses the PC's timer instead.
- - Removed keyboard problems in DOS Shell.
- - Removed some problems with damaged floppies.
- - Works slightly better under MS Windows.
- - Nonexistent drives are no longer detected. If you still see
- them, re-read the directories and save your saved directory
- files again.
- - If using Quickmode specified in config file, most mod/nst
- files were skipped.
- - Small fix in Scream Tracker 3 saving, thanks Maral!
- - Various small fixes which I no longer remember.
-
- Morgul 1.5, code named Theba '95, with lots of sound code
- enhancements and other advanced features, with full backwards
- compatibility and stuff, is planned to be released at the very
- beginning of '95. (pun intended)
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- Version 1.01 - Fixed that nasty hangup bug 29.08.94 18:58:53
-
- New features:
-
- - The graphics mode is now Much Better.
- - Added pattern skipping to the help viewer
- - Added WAV format into instrument saving.
- - Removed the useless GameOfLife screen saver since it occupied
- space.. (and scared people :)
- - Included a README.EXE for the document.
- - ESC in graphics mode no longer exits the program..
-
- Bugfixes:
-
- - The nasty hangup bug which caused Morgul to hang on some
- machines at startup is now hopefully gone once and for all.
- - Lower-case module names are now accepted (another FUNNY bug
- :). This fixes problems with Info-Zip, Unix/OS/2 archivers and
- so on..
- - Removed heap corruption problems in sample saving.
- - Even smarter temp directory handling..
- - The Out Of Memory problem when playing with effects is now
- removed.
- - A simple critical error handler is now implemented, so Morgul
- will act nicer when you try to change to an invalid drive
- (like if you don't have a floppy in A: and so on..)
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- Version 1.00 - First non-beta release 30.07.94 04:50:34
-
- New features:
-
- - Configuration file morgul.cfg. This file is not necessary for
- the operation of Morgul, but if you need to change the default
- values, you can use it.
- - Added reverb and filter effects. Activate with Alt-F. See
- morgul.cfg. Can be changed with -f parameter.
- - Slight change in keys: N now goes to the next module, and
- Enter and Space both tag/untag files and change
- drives/directories.
- - Much improved look and new volume bar system. And the flashing
- box is gone.
- - Added Drum Machine mode from Ctrl-D.
- - Added UC2 support. Because of the oddiness of the UC2 format,
- you MUST have uc.exe in your path so that Morgul can read the
- contents of the archives; this is the only way to read UC2
- archives.
- - Scanning of UC2 files can be disabled in the configfile by
- setting ScanUc2Files=Off.
- - Added QuickMode setting into config file. With this switch,
- you can disable the scanning of module files for songnames and
- other info, which speeds up dir loading.
- - Reduced memory consumption.
- - Can now load up to 3000 file names, instead of the previous
- 446 file names. If somebody really has more than 3000 files in
- one directory, he could drop me a line and I will push the
- limit to 5000.
- - S3M sample amount is shown, and MTM sample/pattern amount, at
- last..
- - Enter is now also accepted as an exit in many screens, so you
- don't have to press ESC (which always has the danger of
- exiting..)
- - Much better message when no sound card found.
- - Added option to hide the unarchiving output in morgul.cfg.
- - Soundcard info shown at top screen, lowest line.
- - Autogain for 16-bit sound cards
- - Alt-4 changes the screen so that you see both the module and
- file screen, partially.
- - Current dir is shown at the bottom of file window.
- - Buffer size is automatically set to fit current sound card
- selection.
- - Added Surround panning to the Ctrl-P panning setup screen.
-
- Bugfixes:
-
- - Helpviewer did not work without a mouse driver.
- - Sample playing with other cards than GUS now works.
- - Fixed lots of small, non-fatal bugs which I don't care to
- mention here.
- - Fixed amplify bug.
- - Improved unarchiving logic.
- - Fixed small bug in ARJ file handling which caused Morgul to
- skip archives on rare occasions.
- - The -n default panning switch now works.
- - Less UltraClicks
- - Fixed tremolo
- - New DMA download for GUS
- - SB,GUS and WSS bugs fixed
- - Now you can use mixing rates >32767hz (damn _signed_
- integers :)
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- Version 0.99 - First public beta release 26.06.94 15:01:19
-
- - Morgul is now released. This is the first public beta release.
- If the bugs found from this version are not severe, the next
- release will be 1.0 and non-beta.
-