SurfSmurf's Oldsk00l MOD player



About:

This plugin for WinAmp was designed to play those old old Amiga
MOD files correctly. The player that comes with WinAmp just doesn't
cut it when you try and play a 15 instrument or NoiseTracker MOD.
As an added bonus, the ProTracker replayer is more compatible too!
(Can you say EFx?). For completeness, multichannel MOD type files
are handled as well.

For the true oldsk00l flavour, this plugin also fully supports those
cool Future Composer tunes.

Seeking in the MOD is perfectly emulated, samples, volume slides,
vibrato etc are started in exactly the same place as they would
have been had you played the MOD normally.

To use, dump it in WinAmp's plugin directory.

There's a nice MOD info window if you double click the name scrolly
thing in WinAmp. The name scrolly thing (TM) also displays samplenames
starting with a #, normally used for authorname.

You can set a few preferences like in all WinAmp plugins, the most
important being the stereo seperation which makes those old
SoundTracker MODs sound nice (read: bearable) through headphones.
Prefs are stored in oldsk00l.ini in your Windows directory. Sorry
'bout that.

Let me know if you find any crashes, incompatibilitilitilities and of
any MODs that are not being played properly. Better yet, send it to
me and I'll take a look at it.

Let's go back to the oldsk00l!

Carsten Sorensen
surfsmurf@matilde.demon.co.uk
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/2575



History:

0.80 : NEW          : Future Composer support. Play those old
                      crack-intro tunes in WinAmp.
       General      : The MOD type can be changed (while playing) from
                      the fileinfo dialog.
       Config       : The config window can be reached from the
                      fileinfo dialogs
       Config       : Stereo seperation factor and reverse stereo
                      take immediate effect when changed (well, as
                      immediate as the output plugin allows)

0.76 : General      : Improved MOD type detection routine, thanks to
                      h0l/mono211 and his 700MB oldsk00l MOD
                      collection ;)
       General      : Two memory thrashing bugs fixed.
       General      : New "Effects Used" information in the file info
                      window.
       ProTracker   : Nested loops (E6x) debugged.
       NoiseTracker : Command Fxx handled correctly (minor problem,
                      good thing I have the original player source
                      now.)
       SoundTracker : Repeat points handled "correctly" (mmm, I
                      love emulating bugs)	

0.75 : First public release
