| 1 | This file gives all the information needed for those who want to send songs |
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| 2 | to ASMA archive. |
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| 3 | |
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| 4 | If you want to send me some tunes, they should be already converted to SAP |
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| 5 | format and should include all the information needed (author, name, date, |
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| 6 | number of songs). If you're unsure about any information needed, you can |
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| 7 | send me the music as well, maybe we can find the info together. If you don't |
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| 8 | know how to create SAP files, send me the binary file with the INIT and PLAY |
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| 9 | addresses and memory location where the tune has to be loaded. See Sap.txt |
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| 10 | for SAP format description. |
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| 11 | |
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| 12 | File formats accepted |
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| 13 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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| 14 | SAP - already created SAP file |
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| 15 | CMC - Chaos Music Composer |
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| 16 | CMR - Chaos Music Composer with alternative notetables (Rzog's) |
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| 17 | DMC - Doublespeed Chaos Music Composer |
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| 18 | MPT - Music ProTracker |
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| 19 | MD1+D15 - Music ProTracker with one 15kHz digichannel |
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| 20 | MD1+D8 - Music ProTracker with one 8kHz digichannel |
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| 21 | MD2+D8 - Music ProTracker with two 8kHz digichannels |
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| 22 | TMC - Theta Music Composer |
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| 23 | TM8 - Theta Music Composer dual POKEY configuration (stereo) |
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| 24 | Benjy Soundmonitor |
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| 25 | AMS |
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| 26 | |
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| 27 | Information needed (or welcome) |
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| 28 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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| 29 | - Author of the song |
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| 30 | - Name of song |
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| 31 | - Date of creation or copyright date |
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| 32 | - Number of subsongs/default subsong |
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| 33 | For SAP files this information should be already included in the header, for |
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| 34 | other fileformats write it into a separate textfile. |
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| 35 | |
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| 36 | STIL information |
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| 37 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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| 38 | This information is not essential but if you know anything of these, please |
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| 39 | send it together with the song. |
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| 40 | - Name of covered song (plus album) |
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| 41 | - Name of the interpreter (singer, band) or composer |
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| 42 | If the song is a demoparty music compo contribution, send us the name of the |
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| 43 | party (including year) and the final standing of the song (only for songs |
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| 44 | that ended at 1st, 2nd or 3rd place). |
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| 45 | Again you can write all this information into a separate text file. |
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| 46 | Examples: |
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| 47 | |
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| 48 | Digital_Trash.sap |
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| 49 | TITLE: Domino Dancing [from Introspective] |
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| 50 | ARTIST: Pet Shop Boys |
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| 51 | |
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| 52 | Desastre.sap |
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| 53 | COMMENT: 2nd place at Intel Outside 4 music compo. |
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| 54 | |
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| 55 | SAP header conventions |
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| 56 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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| 57 | The filenames must not be longer than 26 characters (plus .sap) e.g.: |
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| 58 | |
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| 59 | 12345678901234567890123456.123 |
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| 60 | Intel_Outside_Fractal_Part.sap - all right |
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| 61 | Jocky_Wilsons_Darts_Compendium.sap - wrong! |
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| 62 | |
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| 63 | Because of compatibility reasons only characters 'A..Z', 'a..z', and '0..9' |
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| 64 | can be used in the filenames. All spaces must be replaced with underscore |
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| 65 | ("_"). The dash ("-") is also allowed but from no reason we don't use it :-) |
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| 66 | |
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| 67 | All tags in SAP header must be UPPERCASE (e.g. AUTHOR, DATE). The field |
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| 68 | contents must be closed in quotation marks ("). There is one SPACE ( ) |
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| 69 | between the tag and the quotation mark. |
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| 70 | Every line in the header must end with EOL ($0d $0a). |
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| 71 | For unknown information use this mark <?>. |
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| 72 | For more information about the SAP header see the file Sap.txt. |
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| 73 | Example: |
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| 74 | |
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| 75 | SAP |
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| 76 | AUTHOR "Marek Badkowski (Bac)" |
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| 77 | NAME "Deafman" |
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| 78 | DATE "<?>" |
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| 79 | TYPE B |
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| 80 | INIT 0500 |
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| 81 | PLAYER F092 |
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| 82 | |
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| 83 | If possible, send also the original file/game/demo that you ripped the |
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| 84 | song(s) from. |
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| 85 | |
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| 86 | Thanks for your contributions! |
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