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- S T E R E O P L A Y E R V10.3
-
- By Mark Dickenson
-
- Text by Fender Tucker updated by John
- Andrew Kaputa for stereo mode startup
- with some additional notes.
-
-
- If you have never seen Mark
- Dickenson's STEREOPLAYER you are in
- for a real treat. It's the best music
- player for the C-64 ever made. Mark
- has been the guru of music programmers
- since 1983 and this version of his
- stereo player is the latest and
- greatest I've seen.
-
- NOTE: Mark seems to have thought of
- everything except making the program
- work from any drive. The STEREOPLAYER
- disk must be in drive 8 when first
- booted. Once in the program you can
- switch to other drives for music
- files.
-
-
- INSTRUCTIONS
-
- Boot Mark A. Dickenson's 64 Stereo
- Player from the menu by choosing the
- STEREOPLAYER boot file. After choosing
- to fastload or not, a heavy- metaled
- (?) theme from "2001 A Space Odyssey"
- should start. Press RETURN when you
- have heard enough and his program will
- show any music files on the disk in a
- window of Menu 1.
-
- Use the cursor and RETURN to
- highlight a block of files from top to
- bottom and press F2. Sit back and
- listen. F1 will play the individual
- file located under the cursor whether
- highlighted or not; SPACE or F5 will
- abort the music.
-
- Even if you don't have the SID
- Symphony Stereo Cartridge you can
- still access the right side voices by
- loading a piece with F1, stopping the
- music with SPACE, and then pressing
- the . (period) key. The , (comma) key
- will play only the left side.
-
- ADDITIONAL NOTES:
-
- (1) An endless Loop-from-Hell will
- occur if you press F5 after changing
- to a partition or subdirectory that
- does not contain any .MUS file. Prior
- to pressing F5 anytime after swapping
- drives or issuing a DOS command via
- the C key, always press D and check
- the directory.
-
- (2) Press the Commodore (C=) key to
- toggle between Menus 1 and 2.
-
- (3) If the .STR files do not load,
- bring up Menu 2 and ensure that
- (DE00)or (DF00) is indicated in the
- window with the A key.
-
- (4) If you do not have the SID
- Symphony Stereo Cartridge, bring up
- Menu 2 and use the M key to toggle
- from Stereo to Normal in the upper
- right window. Only then you can watch
- the band play.
-
- (5) The computer remembers the order
- that you highlight selections with
- RETURN and will play them in that
- order regardless of where the cursor
- is when you press F2. This is
- convenient if you want to play them
- out of the order listed in the
- directory.
-
- (6) Experiment with the various
- options of Menus 1 and 2. You can
- always start over if you make a
- mistake, at least until you save that
- mistake to the sidstereo.config file.
-
- (7) Don't forget to flip the disk and
- press D and F5 to check out the music
- on the other side.
-
- Mark Dickenson deserves a lot of
- credit for the superior programming
- job he's done. LOADSTAR is proud to be
- able to bring STEREOPLAYER to our
- readers who may have missed it before.
-
- Music lovers, have a ball.
-
-
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