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[2]15
16                            Atari SAP Music Archive
[24]17                                  Version 1.6
[2]18
[4]19                           Started on 4th of August 1999
[24]20                         Last updated on 19th of May 2000
[2]21
[24]22                        Total number of tunes: 792 (44 new)
[2]23
24
[4]25 Introduction
26 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
[20]27 This is the release version of the first Atari XL/XE chip-music collection.
[24]28 The outfit of the whole collection was inspired by the HVSC collection (with
29 some differences). I hope you'll like this collection. To get in touch with
30 me, see the "Contact" chapter.
[2]31
[6]32
[4]33 Statistics
34 ~~~~~~~~~~
[24]35 Number of tunes:      792 (1032 including subtunes)
36 Compared to HVSC:     6.3% (HVSC v3.5 contains 12554 tunes)
37 Unsorted tunes:       73
38 Number of musicians:  49
39 Most active musician: Grzegorz Kwiatek    (66 tunes)
[18]40 Biggest SAP tune:     Garfield_Part_2.sap (61550 bytes)
41 Smallest SAP tune:    Self_Test.sap       (159 bytes)
42 Files with subtunes:
[22]43  2 tunes: 24x
[24]44  3 tunes: 16x
[20]45  4 tunes: 16x
46  5 tunes: 10x
[18]47  6 tunes:  2x
[20]48  7 tunes:  3x
[18]49  8 tunes:  2x
50  9 tunes:  1x
51 10 tunes:  1x
52 13 tunes:  1x
53 14 tunes:  1x
54 15 tunes:  1x
[24]55 (2 tunes have unexisting tune "0")
[2]56
[18]57
[6]58 Help!
59 ~~~~~
60 As you can see, there are lots of tunes in the 'Unsorted' directory. If
[24]61 you're 100% sure about origin of any of these tunes (Who did it, where does
62 it come from, when was it composed), please let us know immediately so that
63 we can complete the information about the tune in ASMA (and move it to the
64 right directory). We would welcome if you sent us also the binary file (or
65 an ATR/XFD disk image) with the original peace of software with that tune.
66 Mail any such information to pg@pinknet.cz. Our aim is to completely
67annihilate the 'Unsorted' directory :-)
[6]68
69
[4]70 For contributors
71 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
72 If you want to send me some tunes, they must be already converted to SAP
73 format and should include all the information needed (author, name, date,
74 number of songs). If you're unsure about any information needed, you can
75 send me the music as well, maybe we can find the info together. If you don't
76 know how to create SAP files, send me the binary file with the INIT and PLAY
77 addresses and memory location where the tune has to be loaded. See SAP.TXT
[6]78 for SAP format description. The filenames must not be longer than 26
79 characters (plus .sap) e.g.:
[4]80
[6]81 12345678901234567890123456.123
82 Intel_Outside_Fractal_Part.sap - all right
83 Jocky_Wilsons_Darts_Challenge.sap - wrong!
84
85 Because of compatibility reasons only characters 'A..Z', 'a..z', and '0..9'
86 can be used in the filenames. All spaces must be replaced with underscore
[20]87 ("_"). The dash ("-") is also allowed but from no reason we don't use it :-)
[6]88
89
[10]90 Creator & Contributors
91 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[8]92 Zdenek Eisenhammer (PG of Unreal) - maintainer of the archive, ripped about
[20]93                                     10% of the tunes
[22]94 Adam Bienias (SoTe of Slight) - ripped over 55% of the tunes
95 Piotr Fusik (Fox of Taquart) - ripped about 15% of the tunes (now he's my
[24]96                                main contributor). He's also author of a cool
97                                multiformat SAP converter.
[18]98 Tamas Bene (<?> of Hard) - ripped a few tunes (when will you rip your SID
99                            emulated tunes? ;-)
[14]100 Jindrich Kubec - ripped some tunes as well :)
[18]101 Radek Sterba (RASTER) - sent most of his tunes. Thanx! If only every
102                         musician did this...
[20]103 <?> (Dracon of Taquart) - ripped about 15% of the tunes
[24]104 <?> (Pigula of Shpoon) - ripped many tunes in update 1.5
105 Slawek Sledz (Slaves of Taquart) - many bugreports in ASMA 1.6 pre-release
[8]106
[12]107
[4]108 Contact
109 ~~~~~~~
110 For any suggestions write to pg@pinknet.cz.
[12]111 Homepage: http://mp3.musichall.cz/Unreal/ASMA (temporary site)
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