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SOFTWARE: Dual Module Player 1.04 (New Release)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mick Brown)
Tue Feb 20 06:29:05 1996
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 20 Feb 1996 00:23:52 GMT
From: lfirrantello@BIX.com (Mick Brown)
Reply-To: madbrain@micronet.fr
Reply-To: madbrain@micronet.fr
Submitted by: (Julien Pierre)
Source: (Julien Pierre)
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I've just released Dual Module Player 1.04 for OS/2.
Dual Module Player is a program for playing music modules on different sound
systems on IBM PC compatible machines. It uses DSMI sound programming
interface (Digital Sound & Music Interface) to achieve high quality sound and
wide sound card support.
Currently DMP supports following module formats:
MOD,NST The original Amiga module format (SoundTracker, NoiseTracker). Also
supported by many PC trackers. Original format supported only 4
channels but many variants can support up to 32 channels.
STM,S3M Scream Tracker format. S3M can support up to 16 channels while STM
is limited to 4.
669 Composer669 module format using 8 channels.
FAR Farandole tracker format capable of using 16 channels.
MTM MultiTracker format. It's a MOD variant with up to 32 channels.
AMF DSMI's internal module format. You can convert all the previous
formats to AMF with M2AMF but not vice versa. Using AMF format
saves you disk space because AMFs are usually smaller than other
module formats. DMP can also load AMFs faster than other formats.
But remember that you cannot play AMFs on any other player, nor can
you convert AMFs back to any other format.
It supports Multi-Media Presentation Manager /2 or Direct Audio output.
Here are the modifications from 1.03 :
1.04, released February 10th 1996 :
- added the /MOD parameter to assume 15-channel MOD file.
- removed some debug code in the DART sound driver that caused beeps to
be generated on the PC speaker.
- added support for /16, /STEREO and /QUALITY parameters to make the
command-line more consistent.
- corrected a bug in memory deallocation that caused a crash.
- added support for the NOSOUND driver via /DRIVER=NOSOUND.
- added the /NOPLAY parameter.
- made DETECT mode the default and removed the /DETECT parameter.
- added information about the sound driver loaded by DMP and its settings.
- corrected a bug in the FILE driver which appeared when overriding the output
file name.
- modified the DART driver to use the suggested buffer value instead of 4096.
- corrected a bug in the S3M loader which sometimes caused an exception at
the end of a module.
- compiled with C Set ++ 2.1 again
The DMP104.ZIP file can be found at my homepage :
http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/Henry/Madbrain,
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/os2/incoming (will probably be put to /os2/mmedia),
ftp.cdrom.com (when the files are sorted).
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