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- Statements about APlayers past and future ..
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-
- The Past:
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- Maybe you have noticed that Aplayer doesn't appear on aminet anymore ..
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- Well, is case you don't know, or you already know, why, here's an
- explanation:
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- Peter Kunath, who is the maker of the player Delitracker, has accused us
- of having stolen various pieces of code from his replayer routines. This,
- among others, concerned the FTM, Hippel-(COSO) and other players.
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- We are sorry to admit that he is right and he has got an apology from us.
- But hereby we now gives him, and Frank Riffel, an official apology. We
- are very sorry.
-
- To solve the problem being banned from Aminet, we have now removed the
- players containing Delitrackers code. This will hopefully not cause to
- much inconvinience to the users of APlayer ..
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- APlayer will still be able to use the old player libraries from previous
- releases of APlayer, but for moral reasons we have to urge you to delete
- them!
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- Once again, our apologies to Peter and Frank, and then on to something
- hopefully brighter - the future of APlayer ..
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- The Future:
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- The next version of APlayer is probably not to appear before this years
- Christmas-time, because of some major plans:
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- · The whole APlayer code will be rewritten/converted to C. This will
- hopefully make a portation to other computer platforms/CPU's easier.
- In the future we will hopefully get Power Amigas, or maybe the Bebox
- will gain market (it looks like a possible cool platform :)
-
- · Because a conversion/rewriting is a @{i}very@{ui} hard and lengthy
- process, the next APlayer will as mentioned probably not appear
- before Christmas 96.
-
- · While reprogramming the whole stuff, a new and improved graphical
- interface will be implemented (Not MUI), including font sensitivity,
- 4/8 colour interface (probably MagicWB-style) and even more along the
- road.
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- We hope that you, the user of APlayer, can understand and accept our
- decisions on the way APlayer is going to develop in the future.
-
- Because the rewriting demands pretty much from the one and only
- programmer, Thomas Neumann, he can not also use any time for developing
- new players, noteplayers or fix bugs.
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- Therefore we ask you to step forward and be a volunteer! Can you
- program Amiga assembler, do you have some (or much) knowlegde of the
- amiga audio system ? and do you want to become part of the APlayer
- project ?
-
- Then here is your chance .. Write a letter (E-mail) to one of the
- addresses you find in the guide. We will ofcourse supply you
- with any information/source you need to be a developer.
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- We are looking forward to some hopefully serious contacts :)
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- Now have fun with APlayer 2.11 ..
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