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Title: Oldskool musaxxs engine
Post by: slippy on May 23, 2007: Hi there,

as I already coded a little wrapper for the StSoundLibrary by Leonard/Oxygene, I decided to wrap another one for you ...

this time it's a somewhat more sophisticated library as it emulates (!) the Motorla 68k environment (partly) and the sound chip of Amiga (Paula...) / Atari ST (YM2149) - thus the produced sound output is nearly (!) the same as on the originals ...

as the wrapper is under development by me I attached you two sample files. One Future Composer zak and one sophisticated Atari ST sample :)

Unfortunately this library is somehow a bit big - so you might not code 64k productions with it ... anyway ...

Is there any interest from your side for the library? Should I make it public? or is it just me who's in love with this oldskoolish musaxxs??! :)

I'm looking forward to hear from you :)

Cheers,
SLiPPY
Title: Re: Oldskool musaxxs engine
Post by: Jim on May 23, 2007: Definitely interested :)

You'll get a load of people want to use your work if you can make it possible to play all these formats from a library that can be used from Freebasic with just a few calls, like load_song, play_song, stop_song.

Jim
Title: Re: Oldskool musaxxs engine
Post by: va!n on May 24, 2007: sorry, tested both versions on my DualCore notebook... i dont hear anything !!!
Title: Re: Oldskool musaxxs engine
Post by: Rbz on May 24, 2007: Quote from: va!n on May 24, 2007
sorry, tested both versions on my DualCore notebook... i dont hear anything !!!
Same here :(

P4 2.8Ghz 512Mb
Title: Re: Oldskool musaxxs engine
Post by: Jim on May 24, 2007: Works on Vista though :) Fine on my HT P4 3.0, 1Gb.

Jim
Title: Re: Oldskool musaxxs engine
Post by: taj on May 24, 2007: No sound here either - winxp sp2, IBM laptop.

Chris
Title: Re: Oldskool musaxxs engine
Post by: slippy on May 24, 2007: uh oh ... hmmm ... i compiled it on my vista AMD XP 5200 ... seems to be some project settings ... now I only need a Win XP ready to test ... :|

I'll post you my results asap :)

thanks for testing this dudes ... and sorry for the limited os support by now *sigh*

Cheers,
SLiPPY
Title: Re: Oldskool musaxxs engine
Post by: Paul on May 24, 2007: Don't know if you've got enough information but nothing on my win2k either :(
Title: Re: Oldskool musaxxs engine
Post by: Shockwave on May 24, 2007: As you're in the process of fixing it up, I'd just like to reply to your query about people being interested in a lib that can play FC songs etc..

I for one would most certainly be interested in this. I am not saying that I would use it a lot, but there are times in the past where I've wished that one existed so I would certainly use it sometimes.

Especially if it behaved as Ufmod does with Freebasic.
Title: Re: Oldskool musaxxs engine
Post by: slippy on May 24, 2007: Hey again ... I fixed that nasty bug - now the attached samples should play on any win32-based os without problems ^^

To simulate the problem I just installed Virtual PC 2007 and a WinXP SP2-based developer-image which both can be downloaded for free from the Microsoft website :)

Next step will be the port to FreeBasic ...

Cheers,
SLiPPY
Title: Re: Oldskool musaxxs engine
Post by: Shockwave on May 24, 2007: Both run beautifully here Slippy :)

Shame that the file size is a little large but I think I would be able to live with that because it's not huge.

I am really looking forward to a conversion to Freebasic but please do have some good Karma in the meantime.. Ok, it's not a lot for your work but just to show it's appreciated and eagerly anticipated!
Title: Re: Oldskool musaxxs engine
Post by: Rbz on May 25, 2007: Works fine now!

It's a great work for sure, well done

Oh, and this library will be very useful for music disks :clap: