Short: Making SAP files from Atari XL/XE's music formats Author: Piotr Fusik/Fox/Taquart (fox@scene.pl), Morphos port by Fabrizio "Lanch" Bartoloni Uploader: lanch tiscali it (Fabrizio Bartoloni) Type: mus/misc Version: 1.1 Architecture: ppc-morphos Ported with use of vbcc - portable ANSI C compiler by Volker Barthelmann. Amiga port by Voy/SSG/Dial still bases on the SAP Maker 4 by Fox/Taquart. Morphos port lousely based on the Amiga port, simply recompiled the source code and repacked with the same files. About SAP files --------------- SAP stands for Slight Atari Player. File in .SAP format contains all data necessary for playing music emulating POKEY sound chip and 6502 processor, and some information about music. SAP Maker can convert files from the following Atari XL/XE music formats: CMC - standard Chaos Music Composer 2.0 files CMR - Chaos Music Composer 2.0 files with changed bass table (created with "CMC Rzog") MPT - Music ProTracker 2.4 files This extension is for tunes without samples MD1/D15 - Music ProTracker 2.4 tunes with single 15 kHz digi Such music consists of two files: MPT music and samples data. These files should have same name and MD1 and D15 extensions respectively MD1/D8 - Music ProTracker 2.4 tunes with single 7.5 kHz digi Same as above except for lower quality of samples MD2/D8 - Music ProTracker 2.4 tunes with two digi channels Music in MD2 file, samples in D8. TMC - Theta Music Composer files This extension is for tunes which can be played with single POKEY TM8 - Theta Music Composer STEREO tunes (with 2 POKEYs on-board) AMS - Advanced Music System (?) files (experimental) Installation ------------ 1. Copy "SAP Maker" drawer where you want... 2. Add following lines to your startup-sequence or user-startup, where 'your path' means ie. "dh0:Tools/": Assign >NIL: SPM: "your path/SAP Maker" Path >NIL: SPM: ADD 3. If you want to, you can copy an icon from the "Default icon" drawer to "ENVARC:Sys/", execute DefIconsPrefs and add below items: project/music/sap PATTERN #?.sap MATCH 0 "SAPx0Dx0A" Case sensitive SEARCH "AUTHOR" Case sensitive SEARCH "NAME" Case sensitive SEARCH "DATE" Case sensitive SEARCH "TYPE" Case sensitive Usage: ------ For more info please read 'sapmaker.txt' file. Example music files are included in the archive. Please increase stack to ca. 40kB :) before startup. From CLI: sapmaker (where 'filename' stands for text file with SAP tags) History: -------- v1.1 - recompiled with code optimization (ca. 2kB of gain ;-). - FIXED: messages strings. - ADDED: support for assignment. - ADDED: "Docs" drawer. - ADDED: .SAP file default icon (you can download my set of Atari deficons from the Aminet's pix/icon/AtariGlowIcons.lha :). v??? - ADDED: title strings. Additional info --------------- If you want to listen to the .SAP files, you can download a great SAP player, ported to Amiga by Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz (elf@frogger.rules.pl), based on the sapLib 1.51 by Adam Bienias (Soused Teat/Slight): http://frogger.rules.pl/bin/sap.lha or from this place: http://asma.dspaudio.com/bin/sap2.lha PPC is recommended for the biggest satisfaction from SAP player! ^_^