Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!batcomputer!munnari.oz.au!brolga!uqcspe!cs.uq.oz.au!muzzle From: muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au (Murray Chapman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio Subject: Multitasking intuition mod player.... here it is! Keywords: mod med intuition player serial Message-ID: <929@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> Date: 21 Apr 91 05:04:53 GMT Sender: news@cs.uq.oz.au Reply-To: muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au Lines: 145 Hi there OK! For all those who have been whingeing that there isn't an intuition based module player that doesn't crash when you use the serial port..... you are wrong! WHERE IS THIS PROGRAM???? Right under your nose!!!!! ab20 has a file called "/amiga/music/tools/Module-Master-1.7.dms", but as it is over 500K long, I guess that not many people have bothered to download it to check it out! The actual program itself is only 15K long, but with powerpacker.library and req.library, it comes to about 30K.... been using it for and hour with azcomm without a crash, but I'm no amiga guru on vertical blank interrupts or the like, all I know is that it works!!!!! Someone who knows more than me may want to disassemble it and make sure or prove me wrong.... I will upload it to ab20 as /amiga/incoming/MM.lzh, so all those who don't feel like downloading 500+ K of stuff can grab it quickly.... I was up til 3am this morning getting this beast. The rest of the 500 K was taken up by modules, all of which are available at ab20. DOC FILE FOLLOWS: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Module Master 'The Amiga Music Machine' Version 1.7 Module Master is a music module player that supports many of the popular module formats. It will run from Workbench or CLI, and multitasks well with most programs, So you can play music in the background. It was designed to be easy to operate and yet still have many good features. It is being improved all the time, so if anyone has any suggestions or ideas please let me know. FEATURES Plays SoundTracker 15 & 31 instrument Modules. Plays NoiseTracker Modules. Plays Future Composer Modules. Fast Foward & Rewind to find a particular point in module. Ability to Turn Looping On & Off. Auto Stop at end of Song. PAL switch for playing modules written on PAL machines. Sleep Feature. NEW--> DeCrunches Modules crunched with Power Packer. NEW--> User selectable Scopes. NEW--> Multi-Play Feature to play a list of Modules. OPERATION Fast Foward & Rewind Operate only in Pause or Play Mode, and do not operate with Future Composer Modules (yet). When Loop is highlighted, the Module will loop until STOP is pressed. If a Module sounds like it is playing too fast, it was probably written on a PAL machine, so press the PAL switch to correct the speed. The Sleep gadget will let you close the window of Module Master so you can leave music running and not have the big window in your way, while doing other things. After pressing Sleep, just press Wake-Up to return to the Main window. You can drag the Main window by pressing on the Module Master title graphic. The Scopes Gadget toggles the Scopes Display on & off. MULTI-PLAY When in the File Requester, holding down the shift key will let you Multi Select. The Modules will play in the order you pick them, not the order in the requester. After selecting your list, hit play to start playing the list. To skip a selection, press stop and then press play again. CRUNCHED MODULES You may crunch your modules with Power Packer to save disk space. The player will un-crunch them upon loading. INSTALLATION This program uses the Req.Library & the PowerPacker.Library, supplied on this disk in the libs directory. So if you move this program, you must have the 2 libraries in the libs directory of your boot disk. If installing on a Hard Drive, Be sure to move the libraries. FUTURE VERSIONS Future Versions will play 8-channel songs (even on NTSC), if people start writing 8-channel songs. I Have the 8-channel replay almost working on NTSC. Plans are in the works to add many other features. So watch for new versions. I Have included some of the better modules from my collection on this disk for your enjoyment. I did not write the songs, but if I did I could not have done a better job. Keep writing great music guys! Sorry for not including the name's of the people who wrote the songs, but I don't know where some of the modules come from. Any Comments or Suggestions, Leave me a message at: UTOPIA BBS (407) 655-3561 24hrs. Thanx, See Ya Next Version! Night Vision END OF DOC One feature not mentioned in the doc is that if you are multitasking MM, and another program calls "DisplayBeep()", then you can JUST hear it..... try it with a comms prog... it works with azcomm!!!! If MM is loaded but not actually playing anything, then the sound channels are free for other programs (unlike intuitracker) +^o^+^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-+-o-+ | | Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au | | | o | | o | | | University of Queensland "I'd rather have a bottle in front | | | o | St Lucia, Queenland of me than a frontal lobotomy" | o | | | AUSTRALIA - Mel Brooks | | | o | | o | +^-^+^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-------------+---+ \__ | o | Hate that! -----> +^-^-^-^-^-^-^-