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Changes made since mikmod-2.11-unix.tgz (5th August 1996)
Steve McIntyre (stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk)
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31/12/96- Released as MikMod v2.14 for Unix (mikmod-2.14-unix.tar.gz)
29/12/96- New drv_ultra to use new Ultralib API. Solaris driver now tested
on Solaris/x86 and it works!
12/12/96- Minor cosmetic changes.
06/12/96- One-line patch to display.c to fix null-pointer filename
problems on Solaris.
03/12/96- Finished tolerant flag stuff - if given -t option, will carry
on after file format/access errors.
02/12/96- 669 loader almost fixed - major seg-fault problems gone, but
all modules play too fast.
- Adding tolerant flag to player - don't necessarily exit just
because we can't read/recognise a file we're given.
01/12/96- Minor changes made for Sun compatibility.
28/11/96- Show errors again after curses window exits, suggested by Joey Hess
(joey@kite.ml.org).
- Added scheduling patches from Erno Kuusela (ernesti@netppl.fi).
BE CAREFUL WITH THIS!
- Updated my email address on all files to a more permanent one -
from now on use stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk.
24/11/96- Add extractbanner, minor small changes.
22/11/96- Minor changes, again in mplayer.c
21/11/96- Add loadbanner and usage functions. Various other small changes
in mplayer.c
14/11/96- Improvements to panning functions in virtch.c supplied by
Mikmak. Malloc fix in drv_ultra.c to step seg-fault problem. Also
make UltraInit set md_mixfreq to 44100.
11/11/96- Change to driver API. Add PatternChange, Mute and UnMute driver
calls. This is mainly to remove the ugly #ifdef ULTRA calls in
mplayer.c, so all the other drivers can simply use empty function
calls (e.g. MD_BlankFunction()), but drv_ultra and any further
wavetable-type drivers will have to provide proper functions here.
Not fully implemented yet... Need fully-working mute function for
GUS.
10/11/96- Major rearrangement of code - add display.c and move ALL display
code out of other files. Now an X replacement is as simple as
replacing ui.c and display.c. Minor changes to ultra support.
Need to trace seg-faults on freeing .669s and .ULTs. Add cur_mod
global structure so any function can read/change items for
display. Add md_type flag - are we using a wavetable (e.g. GUS) or
normal device? Possible hooks for AWE32-lib equivalent to guslib.
03/11/96- Finally fixed problem of eternally-looping mods (e.g.
mercrain.s3m) by adding a sanity check to UNI_PTEFFECTB in
mplayer.c. Only change position if the new position is later than
current. This fix also works for mods (e.g. chi-mai.s3m and
ac_blues.s3m) which have some patterns partially empty and use
the same instruction to jump to the next.
28/10/96- Changes to allow FreeBSD use - old OSS version?
- Minor bug fixes.
- Also modified curses includes for cleaner use of ncurses - check
the Makefile.
- Moved Changes, ToDo and README* files from source/ to docs/.
18/10/96- Re-added .669 loader. Portability may be awful; I'm not sure yet.
12/10/96- Changes for Solaris by Johan Hagman (Johan.Hagman@mailbox.swipnet.se)
to reduce the CPU load and make it possible to use mikmod 2.13 as a
Netscape helper application for MOD files:
- Changed FRAGSIZE from 512 to 2048 in drv_sun.c to reduce the
number of interrupts. The interactive commands become slightly less
responsive by this change.
- Added a new command line option -q (quiet) that is needed for
non-interactive use as a helper application. The files that were
changed for this option are mikmodux.c, drv_sun.c and mplayer.c.
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24/09/96- Released as MikMod v2.13 for Unix (mikmod-2.13.tar.gz)
23/09/96- Added Ultra driver from Andy Lo A Foe (arloafoe@cs.vu.nl)
- Updated Sun/Solaris driver from Valtteri Vuorikoski (vuori@sci.fi)
- Several minor bug fixes
10/09/96- Fixed SGI compilation flags.
- Changed mtypes.h so all signed definitions are explicit.
- Allow all platforms to use built-in usleep() if necessary.
- Numerous other small bug fixes.
07/09/96- Added man page.
06/09/96- Altered MOD_TYPES to include Amiga-style mod name ordering. If you
have a large archive such as Aminet mounted, you should now be
able to play straight from the archive.
05/09/96- Minor bug fixes.
04/09/96- Minor bug fixes.
03/09/96- Added SGI driver from Stephan Kanthak
(kanthak@i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de)
- Altered
+ mikmod.h to list SGI driver functions and to change banner
+ mikmodux.c to add SGI driver calls, also refesh() fix
+ Makefile to accommodate new driver
- Various small bugfixes.
31/08/96- Completely rewritten archive code in marchive.c, now handles
zip, lha/lzh, zoo. Arj support ready, just need newer version of
"arj" to test with. Will still only handle one mod per archive as
multi-file support will be _painful_.
- Added "delete" option to ui. Hit 'd' to delete then 'y' to confirm
file removal. Useful when scanning large numbers of mods from ftp
etc. Doesn't yet remove deleted mod from current playlist, so
skipping backwards will cause program to exit.
30/08/96- Added AIX driver from Lutz Vieweg (lkv@mania.robin.de)
- Altered
+ mikmod.h to list AIX driver functions and to change banner
+ mikmodux.c to add AIX driver calls, also refesh()
+ Makefile to accommodate new driver
29/08/96- Added sanity checking to virtch.c - avoid divide by zero and core
dump in "maxvol=16777216L / md_numchan". Thanks to Lutz Vieweg.
- Moved zip-handling to new source file, marchive.c. Need to
write a front-end function to work like file(1), then call
appropriate archiver
28/08/96- Released mikmod-2.12-unix.tgz as m212unix.tgz - hopefully should
work on all the platforms.
27/08/96- Added HP-UX driver from Lutz Vieweg (lkv@mania.robin.de)
- Altered
+ mikmod.h to list HP driver functions and to change banner
+ mikmodux.c to add HP driver calls and ignore ^C
+ Makefile to accommodate new driver
15/08/96- Moved to new cleaned-up version of SunOS driver that should work
for Solaris too. Limited so far, may not work at all for 16-bit or
high quality audio.
12/08/96- added DEC AudioFile driver from Roine Gustafsson (e93_rog@e.kth.se)
(now called drv_AF.c)
- Altered
+ mikmod.h to list AF driver functions and to change banner
+ mikmodux.c to add AF driver calls
+ minor bug-fix? to load_ult.c
+ Makefile to accommodate new driver
11/08/96- moved volume and tempo multiplier init from mdriver.c to
mikmodux.c: init once only, so each mod will get the same values
rather than resetting each mod
- add sanity check to pattern handling: if the mod is obviously
broken (patpos > 255) then go to next pattern
- mdriver now frees the sound device when paused and reinitialises
it when un-paused. Saves having to exit completely to allow other
access to sound device. Could also be useful for on-the-fly
parameter changing later
Things to add to MikMod for Unix, Steve McIntyre Handle randomising within mikmod. Multi-file archives...? (Work underway) *PORTABLE* X interface - which toolkit/widget set to use? Motif? Use a config file for default options, locations of archivers etc. Maybe: Replace curses code to make it more portable again - maybe for DOS?
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