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- Short: Editor for BSI Future Composer mods.
- Author: bybell@cse.psu.edu (Tony Bybell)
- Uploader: bybell@cse.psu.edu (Tony Bybell)
- Type: mus/edit
-
- One of the shortcomings of the protracker module format is that all of the
- tracks are linked together and run in lockstep fashion. If you're working
- on a mod that has a bunch of digitized sounds linked together like a "mix"
- mod, it could lead to undesirable gaps and pops in the sound output since
- you may need to butt sounds together at different times in each of the
- tracks. This editor/player attempts to address this issue by making the
- speed and position of each channel independent of the other three.
-
- Note that although the name is "Future Composer," it is incompatible with
- versions 1.3 and 1.4 floating around out there. I made this six years ago
- as an internal tool so I could have unrippable mods in my demos. Its
- inspiration was the version on the C64 with the same name--as such, it uses
- common blocks for the music data with indexing inside each of the tracks so
- it knows which blocks to play.
-
- Why "BSI?" It's a holdover from my name on the Amiga when I was in the
- demo scene and a precursor to the "BSI Labs" that released Lockpick 1 & 2.
- (See http://www.cse.psu.edu/~bybell/ on my coder page for info on that and
- other Amiga releases during my history..)
-
- Note that this program *is* old. Six years old. However, it *does* run on
- an A4000/040, believe it or not! But you have to do the following:
-
- cpu nocache
- noaga -f futurecomposer
-
- I know this is kind of dicey having to do this to get something to run, but
- I'm really busy doing integrated circuit design this semester (each
- homework assignment is 40 hours using the Magic VLSI editor!) so I don't
- have time to make an Intuition version as of yet. I did want to release it
- though because I'm back into the whole mod thing again and I've seen too
- many mix mods that show limitations of the PT format and want to hear some
- *great* ones with no pops! (Email boris@cyberverse.com for info on "The
- Weekly Module Review.")
-
- Other stuff..anyone out there is free to do with this what they want and
- that includes the sourcecode--it's why I included it all. So if you want
- to rip stuff out and improve it, be my guest. All that I ask is that you
- email me a copy of anything (replayers, correct startup code, etc.) that
- you've done with it because I'd like to see it or release it with this
- archive if it's neat. And that includes good mods a lot better than my
- attempts in the Songs dir. =)
-
- Instructions are in the main program itself. Now have at it!
-
- -tony 16oct96
-
-
- ============================= Archive contents =============================
-
- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
- -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
- 9956 9006 9.5% 23-Aug-90 08:09:12 +FuCoTitle
- 16292 14355 11.8% 06-Aug-90 03:42:42 +FutureComposer
- 2599 1381 46.8% 16-Oct-96 04:47:20 +FutureComposer.readme
- 196034 132719 32.2% 16-Oct-96 04:04:14 +mod.newtek
- 47924 24747 48.3% 16-Oct-96 04:04:22 +mod.song
- 512 297 41.9% 22-Aug-90 02:58:34 +Fusion
- 56823 17597 69.0% 23-Aug-90 08:13:44 +FUTURE2.S
- 7209 2433 66.2% 06-Aug-90 05:04:16 +PLAYER.S
- 32328 10820 66.5% 06-Aug-90 03:51:20 +RoMuzak.IFF
- 2731 1024 62.5% 06-Aug-90 03:49:00 +SA.S
- -------- ------- ----- --------- --------
- 372408 214379 42.4% 17-Oct-96 00:03:32 10 files
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