Short: Making SAP files from Atari XE's music formats Author: Piotr Fusik/Fox/Taquart (fox@scene.pl). Amiga port: Voy/SSG/Dial Uploader: Wojciech Pasiecznik/Voy/SSG/Dial (voydial@wp.pl) Version: 4 Requires: MC68000+ Distribution: Public Domain Type: util/conv Ported with use of vbcc - portable ANSI C compiler by Volker Barthelmann. About SAP files --------------- SAP stands for Slight Atari Player. File in .SAP format contains all data necessary for playing music emulating POKEY sound chip and 6502 processor, and some information about music. SAP Maker can convert files from the following Atari XL/XE music formats: CMC - standard Chaos Music Composer 2.0 files CMR - Chaos Music Composer 2.0 files with changed bass table (created with "CMC Rzog") MPT - Music ProTracker 2.4 files This extension is for tunes without samples MD1/D15 - Music ProTracker 2.4 tunes with single 15 kHz digi Such music consists of two files: MPT music and samples data. These files should have same name and MD1 and D15 extensions respectively MD1/D8 - Music ProTracker 2.4 tunes with single 7.5 kHz digi Same as above except for lower quality of samples MD2/D8 - Music ProTracker 2.4 tunes with two digi channels Music in MD2 file, samples in D8. TMC - Theta Music Composer files This extension is for tunes which can be played with single POKEY TM8 - Theta Music Composer STEREO tunes AMS - Advanced Music System (?) files (experimental) For more info please read 'sapmaker.txt' file. Example music files are included in the archive. Please increase stack to ca. 40kB :) before startup. If you want to listen to the .SAP files, you can download a great SAP player, ported to Amiga by Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz (elf@frogger.rules.pl), based on the sapLib 1.51 by Adam Bienias (Soused Teat/Slight): http://frogger.rules.pl/bin/sap.lha PPC is recommended for the biggest satisfaction from SAP player! ^_^