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From: f34167f@taltta.hut.fi (Antti Miettinen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What format are Oktasongs.lzh on NewXanth????
Summary: oktalyzer songs
Message-ID: <1990Sep18.214058.15188@santra.uucp>
Date: 18 Sep 90 21:40:58 GMT
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In article <1990Sep18.071210.1304@evax.arl.utexas.edu> hill@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Col. Ames and Pixel) writes:
>     Does anyone have a clue as to the format of the songs in the 
>Oktasongs.lzh file on NewXanth in /incoming/amiga.

I suppose they are songs for oktalyzer. Oktalyzer is something like MED
but it splits the amiga's four audio channels by software to eight channels.
This eats almost every CPU cycle so the program doesn't multitask.

Does anybody know whether oktalyzer is commercial/PD/whatever?

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