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- M3RIP Version 2.50 - M3/Ispania
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- Note before start reading: My english isn't as good as i would like ;-)
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- 1. Introduction
- ===============
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- M3RIP is a ripper. A ripper is a program that extracts modules from demos,
- games, intros, etc...
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- M3RIP is the fastest ripper nowadays. Other ripper are fast but M3RIP is
- much more faster and detects more module types.
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- 2. Use
- ======
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- Command line: If you enter 'M3RIP -m', the program will display the length
- and the beginning position of the found mudule.
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- M3RIP has various modes of use:
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- - Manual extraction: Consist in look for yourself throught an editor or
- any program the identification of the modules and extract from the
- beginning position to the end position.
- If the positions are in hex you must begin the numbers with a $.
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- - Automatic extraction: Is the fastest and the easiest form.
- You only must give to the program the number of the demo you want to
- extract the modules and the program will make the rest ;-)
- Note: There are some demos/intros that must be decompressed before
- extraction with PKLITE -x or similar. These demos are marked with an *.
- You may give too the name of the demo from de command line, so the
- search is much faster.
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- - Look for posible modules: Give to the program the name of a file and
- it'll try to find the modules in that file.
- M3RIP extracts 4/6/8 channels MOD, STM, S3M, MTM, FAR, ULT, XM and MIDI
- files.
- If I found the format of other modules, i'll try to incorporate then.
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- - Search for a given string: Enter a string and the program will scan the
- file for that entered string. Now you can find VOC, WAV, GIF, ... files.
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- I have added another option to see some info about MOD, MTM, S3M, FAR, ULT
- XM and MIDI files.
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- Note: After extracting, you may load de modules in your favorite tracker
- and save them again, so the tracker will save the modules with the correct
- size ;-)
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- 3. Technical notes
- ==================
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- M3RIP is all coded in TP 7.0 and a little bit of ASM.
- The program have been tested with a lot of demos and the results have been
- 100% efectivity ;-)
- Some of the demos/intros used to test the program in 'Look for posible
- modules' option were:
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- - Cronologia by Cascada (3 MOD)
- - Facts of Life by Witan (6 STM)
- - Fishtro By Future Crew (1 S3M)
- - Hexappeal by Cascada (1 MOD)
- - Panic by Future Crew (1 S3M)
- - Show and Poor by Magic 12 (1 MOD each)
- - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by S!P (1 MOD)
- - The Party by Future Crew (1 S3M)
- - Unreal and Unreal 1.1 by Future Crew (5 S3M)
- - Vanity & Apathy by Doomsday Productions (1 STM)
- - Airframe by PRiME (1 MOD)
- - Verses by EMF (1 MOD)
- - Soppa by Future Crew (1 S3M)
- - HeartQuake by Iguana (3 MOD)
- - Holistic by Cascada (1 MOD)
- - Shit 2 by Reset (2 MOD)
- - Timeless by Tran (1 MTM)
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- And lots of others I don't remember now ;-)
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- I have tested the MIDI extraction feature with games like Prince of Persia I
- and the demo Sunknown by Five and Then Some.
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- 4. Greetings and similar
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- If I tell you that when i began to code M3RIP I didn't know TP you don't
- believe it but so it is ;-) I began to code M3RIP because a want to learn
- a bit more Pascal (and especially to pass data strutures) because I'm very
- lazy to learn that ;-)
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- I want to send greetings to all the people of the demo scene, to all the
- people of SoundNet and R34.DEMOS in FidoNet and especially to all the people
- of SurNet echo, SUR.DEMOS ;-)
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- Greetings to the members of Reset, TLOTB, Codenation, The Mask of Noise,
- Postumum, Visual Player Team, The VangeliSteam, Iguana and all the new groups
- that are appearing now in Spain.
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- And big Thanks to Miguel, SysOp of BlasterSound.
- (Hey all! Call BlasterSound BBS +34-58-293583, the best sound oriented BBS
- all over the world ;-))
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- I want to say thanks to Lluis Garcia for his moral support and send me all
- the new formats that M3RIP supports now, Angel Jimenez for sending me some
- info about file formats and Jose Alfonso for give me some ideas to add in
- the program.
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- Thanks to David Lopez for giving me the idea of how to extract the modules
- from Capacala's demo 'The Real Thing' and for the code to extract the modules
- from Impact Studios' Legend demo.
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- And now to all the members of Ispania: SMUG, franker, NOP, Josele, Hi-tech,
- ITOO Bros, ACME, NENE, HormigAtomica, Taliesin and those who haven't time
- but they know that i would like they join to Ispania soon ;-)
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- And to end, greetings to all the people from UCA (Universidad de Cádiz) and
- especially to Mari Loli ;-) (my love).
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- 5. Ispania
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- By the moment we have released only a few things, but from now to nearly time
- we'll be known everywhere (I hope) ;-)
- We are learning, and these are our releases...
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- File Size Date Description
- ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- 3DERT.ARJ 15k 3/94 Small 3D routine by ERT
- TERM2.ARJ 63k 4/94 Small intro with some hardware scrollers by ERT
- HT2WORK.ARJ 15k 4/94 Small intro by Hi-Tech Dreams
- LEVEL94.ARJ 80k 5/94 MOD: Level 94 by ERT
- VIRTUAL.ARJ 50k 5/94 MOD: Virtual Minds by ERT
- TERMCODE.ARJ 79k 6/94 Source code from Term2
- FIRE.ARJ 14k 7/94 Fire by ITOO
- LLAMA.ARJ 14k 9/94 Olimpic flame by M3
- ISP_MD1.ARJ 885k 10/94 Ispania's MusicDisk Vol I
- RTCLAS11.ARJ 26k 10/94 Reqs VGA & 286. Break your keyboard!!!
- PUAJJJ.ARJ 1005k 3/95 Ispania's first demo!!!
- M3RIP250.ARJ 35k 7/95 Extracts MOD/STM/S3M/MTM/MID/FAR/ULT/XM from demos
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- * Note: This files may be also compressed with PKZIP.
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- Download them from our distribution sites:
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- BBS Name Country Phone # Hours SysOp
- ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- BlasterSound BBS Spain +34-58-293583 24h Mikel
- People's BBS Spain +34-56-263424 24h Chico Medina
- Radio Maceda BBS Spain +34-86-234969 24h Tony Saa
- Enchufe-OS/2 BBS Spain +34-1-547-7210 24h Santiago Crespo
- Area Soft BBS Spain +34-28-201-351 24h Miguel Fernandez
- SpaceBar NHQ Norwey +47-64-93-34-99 24h Hybris Of Orchide
- PHAT! BBS HHQ Holland +31-(0)43-638243 24h Ch:ilm
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- And now, the Ispania members (by the moment):
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- Alias Name Activity
- ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- M3 Manolo Mediavilla Coder
- franker Francisco Jose Ramirez Coder/Music
- NOP Francisco Jose Esquerdo Coder
- ITOO Bros Carlos/Daniel Quintero Coders
- SMUG Juan Miguel Reyes Garcia Coder/Graphics
- Josele Jose Maria Garcia Music
- Hi-Tech Dreams Andres de Pedro Coder/Music/Graphics
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- If you want to join Ispania, ask something or simply sent us a message,
- you can make it to any of this adresses:
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- FidoNet 2:345/602.1
- SurNet 11:100/101.1
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- Via E-mail:
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- M3: mmauriz@hercules.uca.es
- SMUG: jmreyes@hercules.uca.es
- franker: franker@hercules.uca.es
- Hi-Tech Dreams: dediego@hercules.uca.es
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- Or write us to:
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- Ispania
- P.O. Box 2626
- 11080 Cadiz
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