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- Songplayer.DOC - A Quick Clarification.
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- Date of development : 24-Apr-1989.
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- Coding : MnemoTroN.
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- Instructions : MnemoTroN.
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- Task
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- Songplayer will play any (I hope) tune composed with the SoundTracker. It
- supports all Soundtracker versions upto Soundtracker V2.3.
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- How to use Songplayer
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- Songplayer is very easy to use. All you need is the main program, a Sound-
- Tracker song and the instruments used by the song. The basic syntax is
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- Songplayer <song-/modulename> [-I] [-O] [-M]
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- <songname> is the filename of the song you want to play.
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- The -I (you may also type -i) option forces Songplayer to replace the
- disk-number with 'instr/'. Otherwise Songplayer tries to load the
- instruments from the given volume in the correct order.
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- The -O (for computers without Shift: -o) option lets Songplayer play the
- song only once. With this feature it is possible to make a long-play-disk.
- You only have to write a startup-sequence with the Songplayer calls, copy
- the songs and instruments on the disk and run it.
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- The -L option will switch the lowpass-filter off. This feature will only
- work with the Amiga 500 and 2000 (sideeffect: the Power-LED darkens).
- Sorry, Amiga 1000 users, but your filter isn't connected with PA1 (the pin
- that controls the LED) and so the LED will be dark, but the lowpass-filter
- is still working (unless you've made a hardware-modification).
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- Songplayer can be stopped by pressing the left mousebutton. When -O was
- given, it will stop by itself after playing the song for one time.
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- If an error occured, Songplayer will give you the reason why it aborted
- loading.
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- How to make a long-play-disk
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- If you want to make a long-play-disk, it would be silly to place all files
- in the root directory. A better way: create two directories: "songs" and
- "instr". Now you have to copy all used instruments to the
- 'instr'-directory. To load a song, use: Songplayer songs/songname -I -O.
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- Bugs known
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- Sorry, that I have to include this paragraph, but there is a little bug I
- have to tell you about. If the songname contains a '-' you have to cancel a
- little Requester that appears in the upper left corner named 'System
- Request'.
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- MnemoTroN, 25-May-1989 (1:51 a.m.)
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