Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!sun-barr!rutgers!faatcrl!jimb From: jimb@faatcrl.UUCP (Jim Burwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio Subject: Re: Module Players Message-ID: <1212@faatcrl.UUCP> Date: 11 Apr 91 23:32:37 GMT References: <1991Apr7.233441.15724@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1991Apr9.033028.6226@neon.Stanford.EDU> Organization: FAA Technical Center, Atlantic City NJ Lines: 81 mjr@calvin.edu (Matt Ranney;957-6635;;754-8123;Amiga 500) writes: >Well, that makes 3 people that I've heard are working on modplayer programs. >Someday, we Amiga users are going to be flooded with modplayers. Until then, >we can only hope that those fine authors will hurry up and release a program >that we desperately need. Well, help me make a descision: Should I release a pre-release version of Trackplay (like 1.0beta1), or should I completely finish it and release 1.0 ? If I release the "pre-release" version: 1. There will be two-versions, one which uses a timer from CIA A, which will work right on 1.3 machines without effecting serial input, and the other which uses a timer from CIA B which will work on 2.0 machines, but will probably cause data to be lost on 68000 machines running 2.0 (not many :-). 2. It will have a good MMD0 module loader, and a robust but far from perfect ST/NT module loader. I thought I had my ST/NT module loader working perfectly, then, like usuall, I found some modules which is choked on :-|. I'm working on that now. It presently handles 15 and 31 inst. ST/NT modules, 4 voice Startrekker (FLT4) modules. 3. My own, and a friends testing has found the program to be extremely stable. My friend and I havn't had a crash which was the fault of trackplay yet (except during development). I can literally let it play modules all day (I have about that many modules :-) without it crashing. Of course, there will probably be 1000 people reporting crashes due to trackplay anyway (whether it really was my fault or not :-). 4. It will not support some of the Med 3 thingies. If I wait until I have it "done" to my liking: 1. I won't have a zillion people saying "it doesn't work", or "it doesn't have THIS feature", etc, etc, even though it's a beta version. 2. It will support Med 3.00 stuff (btw, the appregio bug is still not fixed in Med 3.00). 3. It will have all the features I intend to put into it. 4. It will possibly use a better timing scheme, hopefully ending the need for two different versions, if my scheme works. 5. It will load every module I can test perfectly (you don't know what a pain these things are. There IS no standard, or, more accurately, there seems to be multiple standards). 6. and much, much, more! Well. What, u think ? Shall I wait, or release it in beta form ? (somehow I know what the answer will be :-) C'ya, Jim -- +--------------------------+ _ |INET: jimb@faatcrl.uucp | | \ |UUCP: ..!rutgers!faatcrl!| _| \______________________________________ | jimb | - ______ ________________ \_`, +------------------------- + -(_______ -= -= USAF ) `--------=============----------------` - - - - ` . . - - .*` .* ;`*,`., `, ,`.*.*. * ______________________________________* * ` ^ *____________________________ IRAQ