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15
16                            Atari SAP Music Archive
17                                  Version 2.4
18
19                         Started on 4th of August 1999
20                       Last updated on 13th of July 2002
21
22                     Total number of tunes: 1480 (94 new)
23
24
25 Introduction
26 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
27 This is the release version of the first Atari XL/XE chip-music collection.
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" section of this document.
31
32
33 Statistics
34 ~~~~~~~~~~
35 Number of tunes:      1480 (1949 including subtunes)
36 Compared to HVSC:     7.9% (HVSC v4.6 contains 18618 tunes)
37 Disk space ocupied:   8185482 bytes (8065189 bytes excluding Docs folder)
38 Average SAP filesize: 5449 bytes
39 Songs with subsongs:  159
40 Unsorted tunes:       70
41 Number of musicians:  84
42 Most active musician: Lukasz Sychowicz    (84 tunes)
43 Biggest SAP tune:     Garfield_Part_2.sap (61547 bytes)
44 Smallest SAP tune:    Self_Test.sap       (150 bytes)
45 Files with subtunes:
46  2 tunes: 53x
47  3 tunes: 31x
48  4 tunes: 27x
49  5 tunes: 23x
50  6 tunes:  9x
51  7 tunes:  4x
52  8 tunes:  3x
53  9 tunes:  2x
54 10 tunes:  2x
55 11 tunes:  2x
56 13 tunes:  1x
57 14 tunes:  1x
58 15 tunes:  1x
59 Total: 469 subtunes
60 2 tunes have unexisting tune "0"
61
62
63 Help!
64 ~~~~~
65 As you can see, there are lots of tunes in the 'Unsorted' directory. If
66 you're 100% sure about origin of any of these tunes (Who did it, where does
67 it come from, when was it composed), please let us know immediately so that
68 we can complete the information about the tune in ASMA (and move it to the
69 appropriate directory). We would welcome if you sent us also the binary file
70 (or an ATR/XFD disk image) with the original piece of software with that
71 tune. Mail any such information to pg@dspaudio.com. Our aim is to completely
72 annihilate the unrecognized tunes.
73
74
75 For contributors
76 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
77 If you want to send me some tunes, they should be already converted to SAP
78 format and should include all the information needed (author, name, date,
79 number of songs). If you're unsure about any information needed, you can
80 send me the music as well, maybe we can find the info together. If you don't
81 know how to create SAP files, send me the binary file with the INIT and PLAY
82 addresses and memory location where the tune has to be loaded. See Sap.txt
83 for SAP format description. The filenames must not be longer than 26
84 characters (plus .sap) e.g.:
85
86 12345678901234567890123456.123
87 Intel_Outside_Fractal_Part.sap - all right
88 Jocky_Wilsons_Darts_Compendium.sap - wrong!
89
90 Because of compatibility reasons only characters 'A..Z', 'a..z', and '0..9'
91 can be used in the filenames. All spaces must be replaced with underscore
92 ("_"). The dash ("-") is also allowed but from no reason we don't use it :-)
93
94
95 Contributors
96 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
97 (in ABC order)
98 Mr. Bacardi
99 Tamas Bene (<?> of Hard)
100 Adam Bienias (SoTe of Slight)
101 Zdenek Eisenhammer (PG)
102 Piotr Fusik (Fox of Taquart)
103 Michal Garbaciak (Dracon of Taquart)
104 Jaymz Julian (alih)
105 Jindrich Kubec
106 Marek Pavlik (MaPa)
107 Marcin Prusisz (Pigula of Shpoon)
108 Martin Simecek
109 Slawek Sledz (Slaves of Taquart)
110 Radek Sterba (RASTER)
111 ..and people at the HVSC mailing list at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hvsc/
112
113 Contact
114 ~~~~~~~
115 E-mail:        pg@pinknet.cz
116 ICQ:           66411804
117 Homepage:      http://asma.atari.org (redirects to http://asma.dspaudio.com)
118 Czech mirror:  http://asma.musichall.cz
119 Polish mirror: http://atariarea.nostalgia.pl/asma
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