Short: -*AMOREL*- No fuss multiformat song/audioplayer!
Author: amorel@xs4all.nl
Uploader: amorel@xs4all.nl
Type: mus/play
Url: http://www.xs4all.nl/~amorel

UPDATE: I forgot to mention this program should support sid songs, but I
haven`t got that working yet. I also forgot to remove the requester if the 
playsid library wasn`t there(Why complain about something if it doesn`t want
to work anyway ;). It`ll load sids in and all(If you`ve got the playsid
library), it just doesn`t want to make any sound. 
TELL ME IF IT WORKS FOR YOU!

To start:

This program is shareware but fully functional. Please pay $5,- or 10,-
Dutch guilders. Contact me for payment information. 

If you pay, you will get better support and you will get updates sooner. 
Also I`m more likely to implement your wishes :-) And of course paying this 
reasonable fee will encourage me to improve this more and more.

Check my site for anything about this and my modules, ramblings and links!

The story:

This is my first attempt to make a proper program for the Amiga. As some
may know I love (electronic)music and compose it myself. Of course I have
been using(and still use) several of the best Amiga song(module) players
around. But I found them to be overfeatured, with tons of menu options and
window gadgets and supporting tons of formats noone will be likely to have
ever heard about ;-) In other words, in an attempt to cover everything
audio and what not they became sort of overkill.... to me at least.

Hence my motivation to make a song/audio/module, whatever the name should
be, player. 

Besides the Amiga I`ve been developing on several other platforms, the
C=64, for job(s): the IBM AS/400 and some other platform widely used,
which I prefer to forget.

Tools used:

Amiga 1200 with a 175 mHz ppc/25 mHz 040 powerup card and 32 mb of memory.
Blitz Basic, a great programming language for which some of the best games
ever have been made and are being made. Also very good for application 
development. Coffee, tea, gym, team fortress quaking(try 137.226.116.82 for 
that :) to keep my sanity ;-)

The program:

Ok, as you know by now this program plays modules of different formats.
The formats currently supported are:

	* Med, Octamed, Soundstudio(thus 4 channel, 8 channel and the newest octamed 
	  soundstudio up to 64 channel formats)

	* Pt module(the standard mod format)

	* Digibooster through AHI(a new composing program becoming pretty 
	  popular)

	* IFF 8 bit samples, direct from disk(so no memory limitations)  

The most widely used formats are covered as far as I`m concerned(after all
I started to make this for myself to begin with ;). There will appear some
more support for other formats(see `future`) and if you think I missed out 
something really obvious, tell me.

Usage:
	I`m not gonna tell, ought to be obvious :-)

Needed:
	several octamed related libraries(included)
	dbplayer.library (included)
	libraries for powerpacker and xpk(included)
	AHI for digibooster(not included)

Features:

	* Multi format(of course :)
	* Support for xpk`ed and powerpacked files, decrunching in
	  fastmemory if available.
        * `App` support, thus drag and drop on window, appicon or
	  appmenu(shift select) 
	* Plays (octa)med, soundstudio and digibooster songs from
	  fastmemory if available.
	* Fast and easy gadtools GUI
	* Soundperiod displayed with PT modules(working on it for other
	  formats)
	* Usage of standard libraries for replay and decrunch, except PT
	  modules and IFF 8 bit samples. (hm is that a feature or laziness? ;)
        * Able to load in ANY file and attempt to play it, asking you
	  beforehand of course(see and listen for yourself ;) Might be
	  usefull for the few people who love weird sounds, some files give 
	  perfect sounds for a psychedelic electro song :-D 
        * Reasonably small and fast, doesnt use up much resources. Needs
	  very little memory to run
	* Works on all cpu types(as far as i know) and maybe even on Amiga
	  os <2.0, not tested though.
 
        * .... ask me for features you want/need!

Tested on:
	
	* Amiga 1200 with 175 mHz ppc, 25 mHz 040 and 32 mb fast
	* Amiga 1200 with 060
	* Bare Amiga 1200 2 mb chip, 14 mHz 020

Known bugs:

I have fixed all the bugs I found so far, except:

Hm.... not a bug maybe, but when I play ONE specific module(and only ONE)
and then start yam 1.3.5 there`s a 50% chance of a crash on my system. The
guru given is #80000020, strangely enough an UNDOCUMENTED guru as I have
not found a description of it anywhere. As this only occurs with that ONE
specific PTmodule and have not found problems with others I reckon it`s a
problem of Yam digging into places it shouldn`t ;-)

For the rest I do not know of any bugs present, that doesn`t mean however
that there are not any bugs, most likely there are(as in any program). if
you find some, contact me.

Future:
	
	* SID songs working properly! ;-)
	* 16 bit sample support
	* fast forward and rewind on other than PT modules
	* showing of period on other than PT modules
	* more formats(tell me)
	* `jukebox` option, randomly/sequentially play songs, or a 
	  `playlist`.
	* mp3 support(maybe!)
	* more I can`t think of(it`s 4.23 in the night now :)
	  again, contact me. Make me a nice icon 8-)

Credits:

	Wendy, my wife who I love a lot!
	Fabio Bizzetti as beta tester

	Teijo Kinunnen for the great Octamed(Soundstudio)

	Frederic Laboureur for New Commandset in Blitz(likes enfocer hits ;)
        James L Boyd for Pupit(powerpacker (un)pack)
	Xbones, Binary Assault
	Rick Hodger
	Red When Excited
	Acid
	
	Jay Miner, whose intellect made all this possible :-)

Greetings:
	
	All on #amigaquake/#amycoders and #theend! 
	Delphine `Elecwnch`(keep on going :)
	Thomas `A340`
	August `Gustli`
	Damnation(long time no see)
	Nicholas `Yagger`(idem)
	Rune `Shitlips`(idem)
	The people on the Blitz list
	
	I forgot many....	

-*LOVE*-