j.a.m. (just another musicplayer) by Cream [web]
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Just another musicplayer V 1.1beta
www.creamhq.de mail@creamhq.de
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< Introduction >
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In the late 70's, early 80's, when the first homecomputers were
provided with 'real' soundprocessors, a new kind of enthusiastic
user came up. The Chipmaniac. Living in his own little world,
he switches on his machine for only one reason. Computermusics.
Funny little songs of three or four voices, made of simple square
waves, noise, or triangles, sometimes filters and realtime-
effects. He loves to listen to these noises, which 'normal'
people consider painful.
He meets his mates to swap demos just to get some new pieces of
his favourite composers. And he gets mad challenging endmonsters
in chance to get a new levelmusic or an endmusic. After some time
he gets bored playing games and starts ripping the songs for his
growing collection. But he isn't satisfied by listening to his
fave songs only at home, so he records them on tape or CD to
enjoy them by driving his car or riding his bike, wherever he
wants to.
He grows older, buys new generations of computers and expieriences
new, different styles of music. One day he remembers the old
songs. His old machine isn't available anymore so he explores the
net for the old chippies and for emulators. His taste of music is
still a mystery to his new friends. He doesn't care. He's a
chipmaniac...for good.
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< The Concept >
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'Jam' is a multiformat musicplayer based on a plugin-structure.
It is supposed to run on all Atari computers with sound-DMA (M/STE
Falcon, TT).
The program is available for two different tastes of navigating.
With a single-task custom-shell, as well as with a GEM-shell for
multitasking systems like MiNT. We had no chance to test this
program with clones like Hades, Milan or Phenix, so should not be
expected to run on these machines.
The idea of 'Jam' is to offer a chance to replay any music-format,
which is available and replayable for Atari computers, like Chris
Hlsbeck's TFMX, Jochen Hippel's COSO, Future Composer or PSID.
The replayers for these formats are included as plugins. 'Jam'
is provided with plugins for a wide range of well known formats,
and is still extendable. Anybody can add his own plugin for his
favourite musicformat. Find detailed explanation plugin-api, deli-
vered with this package.
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< Credits: >
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Abyss: custom-shell coding, plugins
Candyman: GEM-shell, plugins
Tao: custom-shell coding, plugins
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< The Plugins >
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The plugins need to be copied into the 'plugins' - folder. They
can be downloaded from our website (www.creamhq.de). See extra
textfiles delivered with the single plugins for more information.
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< Adding your own Plugin >
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Read the plugin-api, delivered with this package, to get infor-
mations on how to include your own plugin into 'Jam'.
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< Some very special greets >
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Jochen Hippel ( Thanks for supporting us with sourcecodes!)
Evil/DHS ( Thanks for testing and useful hints)
MC Laser ( Cool ASCII-Logo, thanks! )
SWE, 505, Dma Sc, Paranoid, Grazey, Grey, ST Survivor
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