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From: djh@neuromancer.metaphor.com (Dallas J. Hodgson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What Programs Use SMUS Music Files
Message-ID: <1484@metaphor.Metaphor.COM>
Date: 1 Oct 90 23:24:20 GMT
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In article <1990Sep28.202602.10950@ecst.csuchico.edu> mrush@cscihp.UUCP writes:
>In article <1466@metaphor.Metaphor.COM> djh@neuromancer.metaphor.com (Dallas J. Hodgson) writes:
>>
>>What are you talking about? Deluxe Music Construction Set, Instant Music,
>>the Amiga SMUS Toolkit, and others all support SMUS. It's the IFF-standard
>>that's been written up since 1985 in the ROM Kernal Manuals. Get a life.
>
>	Don't know about the others (maybe Bo does :-), but SMUS is NOT Deluxe
>Music's preferred format.  In fact, it does a rather poor (IMHO) job at handling
>SMUS files.  Deluxe Music is really written to deal with DMCS format files!
>
>	And DMCS _is_ an IFF file type.  Used ONLY by Deluxe Music, but it IS
>IFF...

Jeez. Music-X has SMUS import ability; so does Dynamic Studio, if I remember
correctly. SMUS is AmigaVision's SOLE music format. There are your
"others".
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