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- Short: Hippo FuNNy Player v1.0 (REXX)
- Type: mus/play
- Author: eliot@sci.muni.cz (Eli0t/cONTORTIOn * AMINET-CZ administrator)
- Uploader: eliot@sci.muni.cz (Eli0t/cONTORTIOn * AMINET-CZ administrator)
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- HFP 1.0
- +++++++
-
- History:
- ========
-
- As a betatester of HippoPlayer, an ultimate module player for any Amiga
- computer, I've had long talks and mails to K-P Koljonen - author of Hippo.
-
- He became somehow lazy (not!) => older & much clever ;)
-
- Something had to be done and finally I've put all my REXX knowledge
- into a short script, then put in more lines, and more lines...
-
- Now it's quite big (5kB), more than the icon by Jofa/vECTORs
- (BTW:ultimate graphician - I love his paintings!) - the work took
- whole 2 days and a bit more days to test it drastically for errors.
-
-
- Features:
- =========
-
- This player loads Hippo if it's not loaded already.
-
- Plays commandline parameter (just to allow Filemaster/DOPUS handling)
- or plays its "musical slideshow". All the variables that can be set
- are in the script HEADER - modify the values freely, time in seconds.
-
- Player terminates on CTRL-C (if ran by "rx", I prefer "rxnil" without
- any output), when the Hippo is STOPPED by either STOP, EJECT, CLOSEGADGET
- or if the script is restarted (sets CLIP variable to let the older
- script know it's time to "go home" ;))
-
- Player can play multimodules in random order (1st song first, then
- the rest in random order, timeout if too long on the starting track) -
- I couldn't find better solution on this (but I think it's much better
- than that one implemented in Hippo). There may be some ugly "bugs" or
- "features" they someone may not like - please contact me and we can
- find a solution!
-
- Bugs:
- =====
-
- NONE, but I couldn't get the "rexxsupport.library" working together with
- this script - hints, helpers anywhere?
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- This player requires:
- =====================
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- * HippoPlayer at least v2.23
- * NO automatic start-up program in Hippo
- * at least one Hippo program
-
- * play mode "module repeatedly"
- * display mode "Time/duration, len/pos"
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- * working AREXX environment ;)
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- Thanx:
- ======
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- K-P Koljonen for Hippo - hope you like my script ;)
-
- (BTW: you should implement the features of the script in Hippo,
- dude, this is just a stupid workaround! :^))
-
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- signed off Eli0t
-