From: zappe@mikro.ee.tu-berlin.de (Harald Zappe)
Subject: Re: WINDOWS MOD PLAYER
Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 20:54:51 GMT

In <1992Sep10.195807.24354@walter.bellcore.com> tld@moon.base.bellcore.com (Terry Davidson) writes:

>In article <BuB9GE.JLG@casper.cs.uct.ac.za>, jholdern@casper.cs.uct.ac.za (J E Holderness) writes:
>|> In <zappe.715792496@tubue> zappe@mikro.ee.tu-berlin.de (Harald Zappe) writes:
>|> 
>|> >There is already out a MOD-Player using the Windows Drivers: WinMod.
>|> >Also have a look into the news group comp.music , where you can currently
>|> >find an english translation of the german WinMod-Docu (for more details
>|> >look into this docu).
>|> 
>|> I know - I discovered it shortly after I posted that message. However, I
>|> think that mine may be a bit better (subjective opinion of course).It isn't
>|> quite as fast at the moment, but it does at least support protracker effects,
>|> and should work on a 286 (i.e. doesn't use any 386 specific code). Anyway,
>|> you can judge for yourself when/if I release it.
>|> 
>|> - Jim
>|> 

>When it is finished, please post it uuencoded, or post it to a major ftp
>site, please!  

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I'm very interrested in all the Mod-Players (pure DOS or in Windows). As far
as I am a European, please don't forget us. wuarchive.wustle.edu is sometimes
difficult to access.
But I think this news group is not quite the right one for sending binaries.

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>Now for the questions:  (1) will you win mod player support the PAS16?
>(2) Use stereo mode at 44Mhz per channel?  (3) allow playing of lha-compressed
>mods? (4) allow deletion of mods from within the program?

>(3) and (4) obviously are the results of using mp ... nice little
>program, but 8-bit (not 16) mono...  

>Maybe I'm asking too much?  (grin!)  Anyway ... would be nice to have the
>above features...

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(1), (2) 
In Windows the usable features depend on the features of the installed sound
driver. So if you want to use the PAS16, you need a Windows driver for this
card, which will only be _used_ by the ModPlayer-Program.
BUT, of course the mixup of the 4 channels must respect, that is has to do
the calculations with 16 bits instead of the earlier needed 8 bits. Carefully
listening I can hear the digital noise on the Stereo-On-1-Adapter (2x8Bit).
16 bits instead of 8 will double the memory requirements for the output buffer,
while the input buffers for the .MOD-File will remain the same.
 
(3) 
There are some sources for LHARC, but this is not the only Packer. Remember
ARJ (Robert Jung), ZIP/UNZIP (InfoZIP's PD), ZOO (Rahul Dhesi), tar.Z (*nix),
PAK (PKWare), and so on a.s.o. ....

I think that it's not so easy to 'spawn' a DOS-program out of a Windows-Program
as it was in pure DOS (?).

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