xmms-fc 0.5.4

xmms-fc is a Future Composer plugin for XMMS. Above XMMS plug-in is based on this reference player which has been implemented because hardly any FC player available on PC (and not even on AMIGA) manages to play back all modules without flaws (if at all). On PC, I dont know any. With other implementations, there is always at least one song that reveals a minor or major bug during playback. If that would happen with this particular implementation, it would be very easy to fix the source code, whereas it would be very difficult to fix an emulated MC680x0 machine code binary-only player. However, please dont submit any damaged files or the well-known FC modules like Astaroth or Chambers of Shaolin which contain several independent sub-songs and must not be played from beginning till end. Those sub-songs ought to be initialized and played separately. Prepared versions of these individual sub-songs have been made available for download on this page further below. Feel free to delete your old all-in-one version of Astaroth. It is to be used in the original game only. Contrary to the information given in the documentation files that come with Future Composer <=1.3 on AMIGA, FC is not based on a music player by David Whittaker. Although this misleading information had been corrected with the original release of Future Composer 1.4, the wrong information has been passed on with modified releases and by other people and is archived with music collections on CD, for instance. [Thats the primary reason why this page comments on this credit issue, too. In earlier versions of this page I havent mentioned the correction in FC 1.4. Sorry about that. Thanks to all those whove bugged me about it.] The great music in the game Astaroth was made by Jochen Hippel of Atari ST and Thalion fame. And it was Jochens music player, too, which served as the ground work for the development of the Future Composer editor on AMIGA. David Whittaker has confirmed that he did not made the music, and he has never given/licensed his AMIGA players to any commercial company except for the games he was working on himself.. AMIGA Future Composer (FC) music file format specialties and source code.

Requirements:	No special requirements
Platforms:	Linux
Keyword:	Audio,  Composer,  Future,  Future Composer,  Multimedia,  Plugin,  Xmms,  Xmmsfc
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