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From: ewilts@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Are there any PD DMCS song players?
Message-ID: <1991May14.152917.8215@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca>
Date: 14 May 91 21:29:17 GMT
References: <2426@winnie.fit.edu> <688@cronos.metaphor.com> <2446@winnie.fit.edu>
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In article <2446@winnie.fit.edu>, mark@zach.fit.edu ( Mark R. Craig) writes:
> In article <688@cronos.metaphor.com> djh@neuromancer.metaphor.com (Dallas J. Hodgson) writes:
>  >In article <2426@winnie.fit.edu> mark@zach.fit.edu ( Mark R. Craig) writes:
>  >>I asked this before, but got no response...Does anyone know of a Public
>  >>Domain DMCS (Deluxe Music Construction Set, I believe) song player (or
>  >>a program to convert DMCS songs to SMUS, SoundTracker/Noisetracker, MED,
>  >>etc. format).  An ftp site would be nice (or though email, or USENET).
>  >>Thanks...
>  >
>  >Maybe you got no response because the answer is so obvious. Load in DMCS
>  >files under DMCS, and Save it back as a SMUS file. Use a PD player (such as
>  >my smus_3.6a, available from Fred Fish) and you're done. There are no
>  >DMCS-native format players besides DMCS.

Maybe he didn't get an answer because there isn't one.  If you weren't so
arrogant and trying to promote your own smus player, you'd perhaps realize that
there is not a direct correlation between DMCS format and SMUS format.  Saving
in SMUS will mean that you'll miss out on many DMCS features, including all the
play styles (and I think repeats).

Unfortunately, the only way to play DMCS songs properly is to purchase DMCS. 

>  >-- 
>  >+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>  >| Dallas J. Hodgson               |     "These days, you have to be pretty   |
>  >| Metaphor Computer Systems       |      technical before you can even       |
>  >| Mountain View, Ca.              |      aspire to crudeness."               | 
>  >| USENET : djh@metaphor.com       |            - William Gibson              |
> 
> It's only obvious if I had Deluxe Music Construction Set, in which case I
> wouldn't need a DMCS Player or converter.  Unfortunately I don't have DMCS.
> Is it even still being sold? (I don't know)

I believe it is.  Check around, even the mail order places.  It isn't being
updated any more (too bad, the bugs and limitiations could use some work), but
the product works, even under 2.02.

> Mark R. Craig
> Internet:  mark@zach.fit.edu
> UUCP:      ...!winnie!zach!mark
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