Short: Editor for BSI Future Composer mods. Author: bybell@cse.psu.edu (Tony Bybell) Uploader: bybell cse psu edu (Tony Bybell) Type: mus/edit Architecture: m68k-amigaos One of the shortcomings of the protracker module format is that all of the tracks are linked together and run in lockstep fashion. If you're working on a mod that has a bunch of digitized sounds linked together like a "mix" mod, it could lead to undesirable gaps and pops in the sound output since you may need to butt sounds together at different times in each of the tracks. This editor/player attempts to address this issue by making the speed and position of each channel independent of the other three. Note that although the name is "Future Composer," it is incompatible with versions 1.3 and 1.4 floating around out there. I made this six years ago as an internal tool so I could have unrippable mods in my demos. Its inspiration was the version on the C64 with the same name--as such, it uses common blocks for the music data with indexing inside each of the tracks so it knows which blocks to play. Why "BSI?" It's a holdover from my name on the Amiga when I was in the demo scene and a precursor to the "BSI Labs" that released Lockpick 1 & 2. (See http://www.cse.psu.edu/~bybell/ on my coder page for info on that and other Amiga releases during my history..) Note that this program *is* old. Six years old. However, it *does* run on an A4000/040, believe it or not! But you have to do the following: cpu nocache noaga -f futurecomposer I know this is kind of dicey having to do this to get something to run, but I'm really busy doing integrated circuit design this semester (each homework assignment is 40 hours using the Magic VLSI editor!) so I don't have time to make an Intuition version as of yet. I did want to release it though because I'm back into the whole mod thing again and I've seen too many mix mods that show limitations of the PT format and want to hear some *great* ones with no pops! (Email boris@cyberverse.com for info on "The Weekly Module Review.") Other stuff..anyone out there is free to do with this what they want and that includes the sourcecode--it's why I included it all. So if you want to rip stuff out and improve it, be my guest. All that I ask is that you email me a copy of anything (replayers, correct startup code, etc.) that you've done with it because I'd like to see it or release it with this archive if it's neat. And that includes good mods a lot better than my attempts in the Songs dir. =) Instructions are in the main program itself. Now have at it! -tony 16oct96