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- Revision History of Cubic Player
- ==================================
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- Latest versions are available at
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- MEDIA BBS
- +49-40-6779553 [16.8 ZyXEL ]
- +49-40-67561137 [28.8 V.Fast]
- +49-40-67561138 [ISDN] (soon)
- REQUEST "CP" or "CP_NEW"
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- or have a look at the dist site list CP.DST
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- v1.6 3.11.95 (Wired '95 release)
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-
- -Sound Blaster AWE support (-cc5)
- -AWE port is 6x0, not 2x0.
- -reverb & chorus:
- -does not modify effects engine parameters
- -some midis use reverb & chorus
- -ctrl-f5 / ctrl-f6 to slide master reverb down / up
- -ctrl-f7 / ctrl-f8 to slide master chorus down / up
- -ctrl-f4 to toggle between srnd/pan/bal and echo/rev/chr
- -command line switches: -vrXXX for reverb/-vcXXX for chorus (-100..100)
- -IMM available => load up to 112MB of samples to your AWE... >]
- -plays up to 32 channels
- -EMU8000 limitations:
- -176.4kHz max. sample replay rate (this may seem to be no problem,
- but consider a 44.1kHz sample played two ocataves above base).
- Some high notes are not played, especially with midi.
- -no 8 bit samples => half amount of memory when using only 8 bit samples
- -no pingpong loops => converted to forward loops => less memory
- -30 simultaneous notes max.
- -no reverse playback direction
- -Disk Writer device (-cc40)
- -Sample Mode: analyse the CD, line or microphone input of your soundcard.
- -play a track from the root of your cd drive
- -play @:LINE.INP or @:MIC.INP to analyse line or microphone.
- -if your cd drive is connected to the line input use the switch -cn
- -available modes: a,x,g,shift-g,o
- (the beloved ->würfel mode<- does not yet work!)
- -only on SB 1.x/2.x/pro/16 & GUS at the moment
- -the "Windows-95-one-file-only-bug" hopefully removed now
- -this may also include a similar bug with dos.
- -thanks to Michael Erdmann for helping me finding this $&&!!%-[≡] bug.
- -pattern re/preview in track view
- -gus can use system timer now: -ct (use this switch in combination with
- -cg if the gus plays only the first few notes)
- -new oscilloscope mode: master channel
- -8x finer speed/pitch control. ENOUGH, GUYS?!!? press ctrl-f11 to toggle.
- -Audio-only CDs should now work with every computer
- -XM fadeout bug fixed
- -AMS v2.2 support and generally improved
- -runtime stability improved
- -some smaller bugfixes & internal changes
- -midi titles in fileselector (thanks go to R0M/vacuum for info).
- -nice little helpful tool... you'll notice it if you should need it. :)
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- v1.5-TP4 The Party 4 CD-ROM 31.7.95
- ---------------------------------------
- -cd audio support enabled (just crap... wasn't it?)
- (tracks are in root of cd drive)
- -AMS support... (v2.1 only)
- (I only had one module to test, so please do not hit me!)
- -some smaller bugfixes
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-
- v1.4 9.7.95
- --------------------
- -the long promised ultra-cool fileselector ][ implemented:
- -module information cache
- -MDZ files (see MDZFILE.NFO)
- -composer, comment, style, playtime, type, date
- -type depending colored modules (what???)
- -132x60 mode and others
- -online help
- -setup (session only for the moment :( )
- -faster
- -scan in archives
- -bug that crashes some systems NOT YET found... sorry!
- -Pro Audio Spectrum series support (thanks go to Alexander Gerlach)
- -Double GUS support (see DOC 3.6)
- -freeze option: alt-p => no screen output, idle, for multitaskers.
- -PTM support (thanks to Scholar / $een / Holofix for one important
- piece of information! Der Rest war ja wohl ne Lachnummer!)
- -FFI officially renamed to Fast-Fake-Interpolation... =) (alt-backspace)
- -new: 48-bit-Adaptive-Oversampling-Interpolation (backspace)
- and 64-bit-Full-Oversampling-Interpolation (2*backspace)
- (FOI always intepolates, AOI only when really needed, but nearly no
- difference). intepolation sometimes pops a bit... :(
- -gus clicks reduced... (hiho iceman!)
- -gus volumes were a bit wrong... amplify can now be turned up to 200%
- -textmode analyser colored (tab to change)
- -notedots colors improved
- -GUS Intelligent Memory Multiplier's IQ raised :)
- -chorus added to echos (thanks to Shadow Dancer)
- -vesa bugfix for gsa fadeout... (thanks to Michael Erdmann)
- -pattern jump/break fixed... (thanks to Christophe Yvon)
- -WSS port now used correctly: (thanks to Sandro Richi)
- use e.g. -cc20,p530,d1 for standard WSS
- -smaller changes/bugfixes: SB, WSS, DMF, S3M, OKT, XM/volcol
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-
- v1.0 29.5.95
- -------------------
- -authors' addresses have changed, see cp.doc
- -Intelligent Memory Multiplier. Enables you to upload up to 8 megs of
- sampledata to your GUS, CP will try to keep the sound quality as high
- as possible. (not just dull doubling... ;)
- -Windows Sound System / GUS MAX CODEC support (-cc20 / -cc21)
- -GUS daughterboard is WSS. (not tested)
- -makes echos, surround and very very big mods possible on a GUS with a
- daughterboard or a GUS MAX, though the normal GUS mode usually sounds much
- better. backspace should improve the quality)
- -detect only works with GUS daughterboard or GUS MAX.
- normal WSS owners will have to set the port and dma manually.
- (how to detect a WSS?)
- -Advanced Note Dots => N
- -FFT for no coprocessor systems added (-cf for copro owners)
- -common spectrum analyser added in Graphic Spectrum Analyser mode.
- (YEHS!, shift tab to change palette)
- -big graphic spectrum analyser added: 1024*768, (SHIFT-G)
- Pentium recommended for fast mode and Hexium recommended for fine mode.
- Resolution could possibly not increase that much on soft-mixer devices.
- -OKT support (thanks to Sheer/Patraa for OKTs)
- -new pics, new anis, anis need less mem now.
- -analysers for no-coprocessor systems added
- -did you notice, that all 16 bit samples were converted down to 8 bits? ;)
- the GUS driver now supports 16 bit samples...
- -card handles changed:
- 0: Quiet
- 1: SoundBlaster 1.x
- 2: SoundBlaster 2.x
- 3: SoundBlaster Pro
- 4: SoundBlaster 16 / AWE32
- 10: Gravis UltraSound
- 20: Windows Sound System
- 21: GUS MAX CODEC
- -GUS and serial communication improved (worked with my non-fifo at 19.2k)
- -Slow computer owners may use -cqXXXXX to set the desired mixing rate at 32
- channels, rates at a different number of channels will be interpolated,
- but they will not go beyond the -crXXXXX rate.
- (SiPiYou: Ok?)
- -scopes/gsa modes changed to 640x480, since problems occurred with
- some adaptors
- -ms-dos seems to mess around with the fonts when using code pages,
- which made the graphics mode's text writing routine crash.
- -echo editor added. => E
- does not work with the UltraSound driver, of course!
- -new: file zapper in the fileselector => ctrl-k
- wait for the new fileselector for a better one. this one was just
- included due to many urgent requests, and not much work was put in it,
- so please do not complain!
- -DMF files sound much better now!
- (yes, they really sound better with more effects... |^} )
- Not all effects are implemented yet, so keep complaining!
- (I don't think all of them will ever be implemented...
- And finally more (all?) DMFs will be loaded!
- (how should I know, that I cannot rely on the information in the DMF?)
- All RR Chapter 6 DMFs will be played.
- -the single-channel-scope-and-low-relative-pitch-bug removed.
- -use -md to make midi channel 16 a drum channel.
- (thanks go to Martin Moeller for this info)
- -the panic.s3m-much-too-high-pitch-in-pattern-5-bug removed.
- (wow, I finally found a solution... ;)
- -loader bugfixes (XM, S3M, DMF, 669)
- -player bugfixes (S3M, DMF)
- -load old mods now stays on. (kick me for 0.96!)
- -loop modules & midi works
- -walking forward in midi files works
- -esc esc 2 escape
- -save/restore setting moved to alt-f2/f3
- -alt-fX mode keys removed
- the next point is only true for Novell EMM386.EXE users:
- -IRQs >= 8 do work now...
- If such an IRQ did occur in real mode, DOS4G did not pass it up
- to protected mode... The bugfix needs an additional interrupt. (0x60)
- You can change the interrupt or turn the bugfix off (in case you are the
- lucky owner of a new DOS4GW.EXE) by the switch -caXX (0:off)
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-
- v0.96 2.3.95
- ------------------
- -ZIP support (use this, if you can!) (-> SET TEMP=tempdir)
- -ARJ support (not quite sure about it)
- -DMF support (wellwell... not too proud of it :]
- but who cares in the times of FastTracker II >) )
- -669 support
- -WOW support
- -ULT support (don't know about the effects...)
- -old MODs without a signature will only be played if you set a certain switch
- -fileselector: path can be entered manually now (ctrl-return)
- -XM keyoff effect was misplaced i.e. put before the note instead of after...
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-
- v0.95 2.2.95
- ------------------
- -gus support (-cc5)
- DOES NOT WORK WITH IRQs FROM 8 TO 15!!!
- This seems to be a problem with DOS4GW 1.95...
- If anyone knows how to avoid the loss of interrupts with DOS4GW,
- please send me a message!
- -example echo/reverb batches added... Cathedral
- -132 column modes and 30/60 rows modes <x> or <alt/ctrl-z> (VESA)
- -32-bit-fast-fourier-interpolation added <backspace>
- -midi scopes <o>
- -midi drum channel
- -the FIDO-net adress is now right... ;)
- -vesa support. graphic output should now work correctly
- -text mode analyser's font now set correctly. (hope so..)
- -many loader bugfixes.
- -cooperative command line help
- -OS/2 v3 & sb support (probably also gus, but untested!)
- -CAUTION: CP may cause OS/2 to do random writes at the hard disk!
- Does anyone have more info about this?
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-
- v0.9ß 27.12.94 (party '94 pre-release)
- ------------------------------------------------
- -first released version
-