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Copyright 1997 Antoine ROSSET (rosset@dial.eunet.ch)

WHAT IS NEW?:

- Compiled using Codewarrior PowerMac, soon on Codewarrior 95/NT
- Written in WinAPI 32, soon on PowerPlant
- DirectSound doesn't stop to play music when the window is not the frontmost window.
- Support plugs via DLL architecture : actually XM, S3M and MOD
- Faster and cleaner
- Support multiple reverb and stereo delay
- Save current configuration in '.PRF' file
- A small '.c' example to see how to use this library
- The Win95/NT C/C++ Library is available in the PlayerPRO Dev.Kit for free - see www.quadmation.com

WARNING : THIS IS A BETA VERSION

- SLOW
- LOT OF BUGS
- NO SUPPORT
- ONLY MADH & MOD files
- SEND BUGS REPORT TO rosset@dial.eunet.ch

System Requirement:

- PC Compatible with Pentium
- Windows95 or NT
- Microsoft Gamers API called DirectX. To download DirectX:
  *http://www.shareware.com - Search for DirectX or microsoft site.

Description

PlayerPRO is a complete music editor software (SoundTracker) for Macintosh
(PowerMacintosh and Macintosh). This powerful software is now available for your
PC compatible computer if you run Windows95 or WindowsNT on it. You will also
require the DirectSound library from Microsoft. DirectSound is part of DirectX
and uses the available hardware capabilities of the supported soundcards.

Actually PlayerPRO W95/WNT is ONLY the driver, you can only use to play following
files: MAD, S3M and XM. MAD format is a Macintosh music format, like MOD or XM. This driver is in BETA
phase, if you find bugs, please report them!

The final version will play: MOD, MED, OKTA, MIDI, XM, MTM, S3M, IT and 669.
(You can look at the Mac version to see his capabilities.)

You can use this driver in any products : freeware, shareware or commercial
products. Just contact me at my email address.

Actually the W95/WNT version is written, developped, compiled and linked with a
PowerMacintosh IDE : Codewarrior x86. NO optimisation.

PlayerPRO is available for Macintosh, PowerMacintosh, BeOS, Windows95 and
WindowsNT. Contact me for more informations!


Technical Details:

- Play up to 32 simultaneous channels WITHOUT special hardware.
- Sound quality from 11Khz 8bits to 44Khz 16bits.
- Support all PC sound chips.
- Compiled with CW10 x86
- Supports 8 octaves


Where to find musics to test this player:
*http://www.modarchive.com

Where to find the last version of PlayerPRO & more infos?
On internet:

*http://www.quadmation.com/
*http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/cgi-bin/NewSearch?key=PlayerPRO
*ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/w/wormey/PlayerPro
*http://search.shareware.com/code/engine/Find?search=PlayerPRO&category=Macintosh
*http://www.iwe.com/quadmation *http://www.eskimo.com/~wormey/PlayerPROUS.html
*http://www.csis.gvsu.edu/~behrensm/absm-faq/index.html
*Join the PlayerPRO mailing-list !! (pp-users-request@gnu.ai.mit.edu)
*Join MODs forum : alt.binaries.sounds.mods

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ROSSET Antoine
16 BD Tranchees
1206 GENEVA
SWITZERLAND

EMail: ROSSET@dial.eunet.ch
Phone: (+41 79) 203 74 62
Fax: (+41 22) 346 11 97
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