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1ASAP - Another Slight Atari Player
2==================================
3
4// This file is in AsciiDoc format. It is converted to README.html.
5:Compact-Option:
6
7ifdef::asapwww[]
8http://sourceforge.net/projects/asap/files/asap/[Download] |
9http://asap.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=asap/asap;a=summary[Browse source code (Git)] |
10http://sourceforge.net/scm/?type=git&group_id=154391[Get latest source code (Git)] |
11http://sourceforge.net/projects/asap/[SourceForge project page]
12endif::asapwww[]
13
14ASAP is a player of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_8-bit_family[8-bit Atari]
15music for modern computers.
16It emulates the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POKEY[POKEY sound chip]
17and the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6502[6502 processor].
18The project was initially based on the routines from the
19http://atari800.sourceforge.net/[Atari800 emulator],
20but the current version has a completely new original emulation core.
21
22ASAP includes the following programs:
23
24- asapconv - portable command-line converter {asapwin=}
25- WASAP - tiny player for Windows {asapwin=}{asapwince=}
26- plugin for http://koti.welho.com/hylinen/apollo/[Apollo] {asapwin=}
27- plugin for http://audacious-media-player.org/[Audacious]
28- plugin for http://foobar2000.org/[foobar2000] {asapwin=}
29- plugin for http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA032810/[GSPlayer] {asapwin=}{asapwince=}
30- plugin for http://moc.daper.net/[MOC]
31- plugin for http://www.winamp.com/[Winamp] {asapwin=}
32- plugin for http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/[Windows Media Player] {asapwin=}
33- plugin for http://xbmc.org/[XBMC] {asapwin=}
34- plugin for http://xmms.org/[XMMS]
35- plugin for http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html[XMPlay] {asapwin=}
36- add-on for http://www.un4seen.com/bass.html[BASS] (for http://www.aimp.ru/[AIMP] and http://www.un4seen.com/bass_showcase.php[other players]) {asapwin=}
37- POKEY sound emulation DLL for http://raster.infos.cz/atari/rmt/rmt.htm[Raster Music Tracker] {asapwin=}
38- Windows Explorer extension - shows metadata {asapwin=}
39- Java version of ASAP2WAV - command-line converter to WAV files {asapjava=}
40- Java applet - for web pages {asapjava=}{asapwww?(see link:applet.html[online demo])}
41- Java midlet - for mobile devices {asapjava=}
42- C# version of ASAP2WAV
43- JavaScript version of ASAP2WAV running in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Script_Host[Windows Script Host], https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Rhino_Shell[Rhino Shell], http://code.google.com/p/v8/[V8 Shell], http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JScript_.NET[JScript .NET] and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JaegerMonkey[JaegerMonkey] {asapjavascript=}
44- experimental JavaScript version of ASAP2WAV running in Firefox {asapjavascript=}
45- Flash player - for web pages {asapflash=}{asapwww?(see link:flash.html[online demo])}
46- asapplay - simple command-line player in C#
47- http://www.silverlight.net/[Silverlight] player - for web pages {asapwww?(see link:silverlight.html[online demo])}
48- AndroidASAP - for mobile devices
49
50{asapports}The summary of the differences between the above versions is in link:PORTS.xml[this table].
51
52There are other projects which use ASAP:
53
54- http://mmsap.sourceforge.net/[mmSAP 2] - standalone player for GNU/Linux with GTK+ user interface
55- http://www.rockbox.org/[Rockbox] - open source firmware for MP3 players
56
57
58Input file formats
59------------------
60
61ASAP supports the following file formats (determined by the filename extension):
62
63SAP (Slight Atari Player)::
64The format designed for playing 8-bit Atari music on modern computers.
65All other formats can be converted to SAP.
66http://asma.atari.org/[Atari SAP Music Archive (ASMA)]
67is a single big collection of SAP files.
68
69CMC (Chaos Music Composer)::
70Atari music editor from early 1990s.
71
72CM3 (CMC "3/4")::
73CMC with modified pattern length.
74
75CMR (CMC "Rzog")::
76CMC with modified bass sounds.
77
78CMS (Stereo Double CMC)::
79Stereo CMC.
80
81DMC (DoublePlay CMC)::
82CMC with 6502 routine executed at double rate of the original CMC.
83
84DLT (Delta Music Composer)::
85Atari music editor from 1990s.
86
87MPT (Music ProTracker)::
88Atari music editor from 1990s.
89
90MPD (MPT DoublePlay)::
91MPT with 6502 routine executed at double rate of the original MPT.
92
93RMT (http://raster.infos.cz/atari/rmt/rmt.htm[Raster Music Tracker])::
94Modern Atari music editor running on Windows.
95
96TMC, TM8 (http://jaskier.atari8.info/[Theta Music Composer] 1.x)::
97Atari music editor from late 1990s.
98The two file extensions are treated identically and played in stereo.
99TM8 means it's stereo (8-channel) music while TMC can be either mono or stereo.
100
101TM2 (http://jaskier.atari8.info/[Theta Music Composer] 2.x)::
102Modern Atari music editor.
103
104
105ifdef::asapsrc[]
106include::INSTALL[]
107endif::asapsrc[]
108
109ifdef::asapflash[]
110include::flash/USAGE[]
111endif::asapflash[]
112
113ifdef::asapjava[]
114include::java/USAGE[]
115endif::asapjava[]
116
117ifdef::asapjavascript[]
118include::javascript/USAGE[]
119endif::asapjavascript[]
120
121ifdef::asapwin[]
122include::win32/USAGE[]
123endif::asapwin[]
124
125ifdef::asapwince[]
126include::win32/wince/USAGE[]
127endif::asapwince[]
128
129include::NEWS[]
130
131include::CREDITS[]
132
133
134Feedback
135--------
136
137If you are interested in the ASAP project, please subscribe its
138https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/asap-users[mailing list].
139This list is for users and developers.
140Once you subscribe, you can post comments, ideas and questions about ASAP.
141They will be answered ASAP. ;-)
142
143Use http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=154391[tracker]
144to submit bug reports, feature requests and small code patches.
145
146ifdef::asapwww[]
147image::http://sflogo.sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=154391&type=13["Get ASAP - Another Slight Atari Player at SourceForge.net. Fast, secure and Free Open Source software downloads",width=120,height=30,link="http://sourceforge.net/projects/asap/"]
148endif::asapwww[]