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#21824 07/06/05 03:49 AM
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http://www.bannister.org/software/ao.htm

It's now available in a 4th flavor: native 64-bit Linux. So AO can now play your favorite 8-bit music on your new 64-bit computer :-)

And everyone gets these improvements:
* New, far better sounding engines for NSF, GBS, and SNDH. The YM2149 never sounded so good ;-)
* CAB archive support so you can play S98s from Personal Soundlog Page directly
* Improvements to MOD and S3M playback
* Fixes for crashes with certain RAR and RAW files
* QSFs play at the right speed now
* S98s don't click and many more of them play correctly and at the right tempo

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S98s still click from time to time; just less often than before. Try the Thexder Moonlight Sonata one; it'll click at some stage during playback. It's not always in the same place, suggesting a memory initialisation problem of some kind.

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I've found the problem. Working on it now.

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Right. S98 is improved in 2.0b6, but will be even better in 2.0b7 now that the second sound chip is updated properly smile

#21828 07/06/05 04:53 AM
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PSF tempo is still too fast, though it doesn't look like that was worked on so I suppose that's to be expected.

NSF files sound outstanding now though. Great update.

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the SNDH plays much better now laugh
but they sure sound a bit too muffled?
here is a zip with 3 recordings from real Atari ST , also with the SNDH files of the tunes... the worst example is the Kamikaze tune.

And i am only able to listen to 3 minutes of the sndh files in AO (windows) ?

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I don't impose any time limit, but perhaps SC68 is expecting some tag format and defaulting to 3 minutes. I'll look into it.

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Yes SNDH and GBS sound a LOT better! �Ķwill check other formats when i'm less tired smile

However�Ķ there is now the rather 'fun' bug with the SNDH files. Files that contain multiple songs now play as one continous track. The 'fast forward' button does not work as intended (it actually tries to skip the tracks backwards into minus numbers) and the 'rewind' button is constantly greyed-out.

'Fun' because with the absence of playlists it is actually quite nice to not have to manually select each track ^^.

I'm also having the same problem as Stefan with the 3 minutes-and-stop. (but not, I don't think with the files with multiple tracks).

Anyways, thanks for a swift update!

Mac OS X Version

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I don't think I have any multi-song sndh files - could you suggest one or two that do that? smile

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in the zip i linked in my previous post there is a multitune SNDH the kamikaze one :-)

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