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- WinMod - the first MOD-Player for the Windows NT(tm)
- operating system
-
- If you are expecting a great manual for this little program, I'm
- so sorry to disappoint you. I built the original WinMod version
- for Windows 3.1 when I got the specifications of the Windows
- Multimedia Interface into my fingers. I had just gotten my
- Soundblaster, and I was interested in the MOD-files. What would
- be more obvious than to build a small MOD-Player. I just wanted
- to test how the Windows sound functions work and how easy they
- can be used.
-
- The result is this player. It is not a styled and polished
- program, neither at the surface (GUI) nor in the technical
- aspects behind the surface. Therefor you must accept the
- following `features': WinMod
-
- - can eat up plenty of your memory when playing
- - does not support all the effects that can be used in MOD-Files
- - does not reach the sound quality of other (DOS based) MOD-
- Players, because it does not use any tricks like FFT
- - has problems with some MOD-Files (don't ask me why)
- - can only play one sound modul (its not a jukebox).
-
- But because WinMod plays most MOD-files with acceptable quality,
- without completely blocking the computer, and because it still
- seems to be the only Windows-based mod player, I made the program
- available for others too. Those who accept the above noted
- weaknesses get a small player that plays music in the background
- even on relatively slow machines (25 MHz 386 without cache).
-
-
- WinMod is Shareware
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Unlike the Windows version, WinMod for the Windows NT(tm)
- operating system is not a public domain product. This is my first
- shareware product. If you want to encourage me to improve WinMod
- (I know there is plenty of work to do) please fill out the
- registration form (see REGISTER.DOC). The registration fee is US
- $15. The shareware version of WinMod is not crippled in any way,
- it is fully functional. So I admit that you don't get anything
- for your registration except a good conscience. Please support
- the idea of shareware.
-
-
- What you need to run WinMod
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- To be able to run WinMod on your machine, you absolutely need
- three things:
-
- - A computer with an Intel i386 (or better).
- - a copy of the Windows NT(tm) operating system
- - a sound card which plays digital samples, and which is
- supported by Windows NT (currently only the Soundblaster card)
-
-
- Installation
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- WinMod doesn't need a special installation procedure. Just copy
- the program to "anywhere" and start it. For maximum comfort you
- should associate the player with the MOD-Files:
-
- - Start the File Manager
- - Hilite any MOD file you want.
- - Select File/Associate
- Files with Extension: MOD (should already be there)
- Press the Browse button and find WINMOD.EXE
- Then click OK.
- - Finished.
-
-
- Playing the Music
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Now the MOD-Files can be played in three different ways:
-
- 1. Start WinMod and load a piece of music in the menu
- File/Open WinMod will play the selected file immediately.
- 2. WinMod supports the Windows Drag/Drop protocol. You can
- drag files from the File Manager directly into the WinMod
- Window and drop them there.
- 3. When the association has been made as described above, you
- can start the MOD files directly, too. No matter whether WinMod
- is already loaded or not, in the File Manager you can play a
- MOD file with a double click. That's very handy, because you
- can listen into a list of MOD files quite easily. With the
- cursor keys in the File Manager select the file and play it by
- hitting the Return key. If you want to listen to the next file,
- this one is choosen in the same way. WinMod stops playing the
- old file and immediately starts the new one.
-
- It should be noted here that the options Resolution and Mode in
- the Settings dialog box are dummies, and even on sound cards with
- the according features they don't have any effect on the sound
- quality.
-
- I'll like to get constructive criticism and suggestions (perhaps
- the source code for an according FFT-Routine for MOD-Files). Please
- send insults, complaints and flames to NUL.
-
- Thanks very much to Harald Zappe, who translated this WinMOD
- `documentation' to English. Without his help there would not be
- any english docs around anyway.
-
-
- Norbert Unterberg Fido: 2:245/36.4
- Koehlerstr. 12c Internet: Norbert_Unterberg@softstream.fido.de
- 5802 Wetter 2 CompuServe: 100112,2740
- Germany
-
-
- This file translated to English by
-
- Harald Zappe zappe@mikro.tu-berlin.de
- Muehlenstr. 39a zappe@sony1.sietec.de
- D1000 Berlin 46 zappe@idefix.sietec.de
- Germany
-
- Windows and Windows NT are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
-