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Help with ModPlayer
Version 2.5 of June, 25th 1992
ModPlayer is a program to play back so called "Modules"
created with the "Soundtracker" application (and more or
less compatible derivatives thereof) on the Amiga. Most of
the sound effects made possible by the Soundtracker
software and the Amiga hardware can be played back with
the ModPlayer application.
ModPlayer was developed from a Module-Playback
application for Sun Sparcstations, written by Liam Corner
and Marc Espie.
Ingo Feulner adapted the playback code for use on
the NeXT and privided its rudimentary integration into
Objective-C.
Matthias Zepf developed the User Interface and
provided general help and enthusiasm. This version
was made possible by a stroke of genius on his part.
Markus Stoll contributed the physical theory and the
FFT code needed for the display of the sound spectrum.
He also made sure the communication with the Window
Server was error free.
More info and new versions are available from:
Ingo Feulner
Wolfacher Weg 22
7030 Böblingen
Fed. Rep. of Germany
Tel. (+49) 7031/277821
NeXTmail: modplayer@xenon.stgt.sub.org
This program may be distributed freely for noncommercial
use. Any commercial use is prohibited! This program is
copyrighted.
Special thanks to Uli and Chris from Adaptations for help
with the English and French language project. More thanks
go to all the usenet readers suppling suggestions and bugs
to us.
Modules can be found on the FTP site
"wuarchive.wustl.edu" (128.252.135.4)
in the directory
"systems/amiga/audio/music/st-nt".
Please send donation of any kind to the
above address! Thanks a lot!
Hints for the use of Version 2.5:
· Programming the playback order is not yet implemented.
· Changes from version 2.0 to version 2.2:
- ModPlayer will no longer crash after completely playing
back a module.
- "Warnings" while compiling ModPlayer are removed.
- The output of the spectrum analyser was incorrect in
special cases. Now the display is all right.
- ModPlayer is now available in German and English.
· Changes from version 2.2 to version 2.3:
- ModPlayer now works with NeXTstep 3.0 Beta.
- Play back position is displayed.
- Error messages are localized.
- New inspector (more information is now displayed in
the main window.)
- Play back time (in minutes and seconds) is displayed.
· Changes from version 2.3 to version 2.4:
- Smaller main window.
- Preferences.
- Fixed some bugs in the playback code.
- Better English and new French language project.
- "Edit" menu to copy this help text.
- Changed calculation to 11 kHz. This strongly reduces
CPU load. Now ModPlayer should run correctly on
68030 Cubes and Colorstations.
- You may select the Sound Spectrum's refresh frequency
with the "Spectrum" slider in the Preferences panel.
· Changes from version 2.4 to version 2.5:
- Improved sound quality. Now the quality is similar to
V2.3, but it does not need so much CPU as V2.3 does.
Known bugs:
· The slider adhustments for speed and stereo take effect
after a delay of approximately one or two seconds.
Please send bug reports and suggestions to the
address given above.
We are awaiting your reports about ModPlayer
Version 2.5 running on 68030 Cubes and Color-
stations.
When creating new language projects (like Spanish,
Italian, etc.) please send them to us!
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.