mtpng.lha audio/play - Comments

spot (85.228.126.23) @ 05 Nov 2008, 10:47.33

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:47:33 +0100

By: spot (85.228.126.23)

yes, all works fine now! thanx!

salass00 (212.16.103.20) @ 05 Nov 2008, 09:31.11

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:31:11 +0100

By: salass00 (212.16.103.20)

The VIAD2 file should play with the new 4.3.1 version as long as you have
unpacked the VIAD2.w file in the same place.

anonymous (212.16.103.20) @ 05 Nov 2008, 09:07.18

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:07:18 +0100

By: anonymous (212.16.103.20)

@spot

I assume you unpacked the files directly into a volume rather than into a
subdrawer? The code in mtpng that tries to get the path where the file is only
stops at a '/' character and not ':'.

spot (85.228.126.23) @ 05 Nov 2008, 06:56.32

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:56:32 +0100

By: spot (85.228.126.23)

my quest to hunt down appleII guys to find out about this .w file continues..
the email on ians homepage bounces.. i found an irc channel with a guy that knew
him, but haven't spoken to him for 18 years :D

he had this to say about the .w file, that confirms my suspicions:

Oh, in that context, it's the wavs for the audio, instruments.
The other is the sequence.
Probably either has a header, with lenghts of
each instrument or they each take a specific length.

spot (85.228.126.23) @ 05 Nov 2008, 05:47.59

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:47:59 +0100

By: spot (85.228.126.23)

i searched the net to try to find out if this might be an archive with samples.
this is all i found so far:
"Unknown Apple II File (found on Golden Orchard Apple II CD Rom)"
I will write the author of the player and ask.

spot (85.228.126.23) @ 05 Nov 2008, 05:40.37

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:40:37 +0100

By: spot (85.228.126.23)

it fails to play this tune among others:
http://home.cfl.rr.com/ischmidt/songs/viad2.zip

the tune consists of two file:

VIAD2
VIAD2.W

The .W file seems to be the samples. mtpng can't find them. This is how the
shell output looks:

MegaTracker Player for Linux/Unix v4.3.1 [27-OCT-2000]
Written by and copyright (c) 1996-2000 Ian Schmidt.
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
Refer to the file COPYING for details.

File identified: SoundSmith/MegaTracker
Output driver initialized
Error: unable to match filename SynBassDrum