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RuudsModPlayer

Amiga Module soundfile player.

This is my personal attempt to create a Mod Player with Lazarus-IDE and FPC (FreePascal). It's a basic player which currently has the following functionality:

• Only Plays 4 channel files;
• Plays original format files;
• Plays M.K., M!K! and such files;
• Outputs in stereo to the soundcard using a samplerate you can specify (changeable only when no song is currently playing);
• You can specify if the player should use NTSC or PAL timing (on the fly while playing);
• You can output to canonical wave files;
• You can view the file content (samples, all pattern tables, etc)
• You can show debug output onscreen while playing a song (tracker info);
• You can play the raw samples on a fixed speed;
• You can specify where to start the song (handy for playing i.e. game sound effects which might be included in some files);
• You can select the audio synthesis method to be either linear- or cubic interpolaton. Cubic creates nicer waveforms and sounds a bit more 'crisp' (default setting).

Note please:

• App version 1.x works with Microsoft's specific MMSystem audio.
• Version 2.x works with SDL 1.x and 2.x instead, which is multi-platform. You need to download this library yourself, see https://libsdl.org// On Windows please place the dll in the same folder the exe is in, and name it 'sdl.dll' as that exact name is what the player is looking for.

I guess that's about it for now.

Rudolf Cornelissen.