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From: ralph@mit-atrp.UUCP (Amiga-Man)
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Subject: Re: SMUS, DMCS, etc
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Date: Fri, 19-Jun-87 15:47:48 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 19 15:47:48 1987
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Derek,
  First I think the idea of all music application using the same format
is vital to the usefulness and *fun* of using the amiga in that domain.
I just wanted to throw in a little suggestion for a feature in the juke
box player you mentioned.
  Wouldn't it be neat if it presented a "jukebox-like" screen to you
where you could select from all the songs in that directory, and then
have each of them performed in sequence, and even loop the whole thing.
Sort of like a DPslide for music, but unlike DPslide, witha much better
interface.
  While I'm here...how about a better DPslide ? This old version 1.0
has lots bugs...I have an application that it performs rather poorly
at too: our cable system has an Amiga hooked up, but it has only 512K.
I want DPslide to play pictures out of RAM disk (CHIP ram), but along with the
storage for each picture, I also have DPSLIDE loading 2 others, the one it's
showing now and the one it's preloading. Hence I'm out the storage for two
pictures I could have stored. Fast RAM fixes this, but it would be neat to
have DPslide bring all the pictures from disk to ram, and then, sort of
like the resident command (ooooo!) just set of a screen pointer to use the
data already sitting in chip ram. Again fast ram calls for a different
solution. And a harddisk makes this less important, but I can't afford one
yet....and neither can MIT cable(I think). But you should see the monitors
around campus....each one popping up Amiga images....fun!