History of Changes for Muse/2 Key ~~~ S3M,MOD,MTM,WOW,XM,STM,669,ULT,IT,FAR - File Formats MBF - MOD Based Formats, MTM, MOD, STM, WOW (ProTracker command set) FMT - All File formats DM - Digital Mixer BSE - Base Code MMP - MMPM/2 GUS - Gravis UltraSound Native Digital Mixer TUI - Tiny UI (Obsolete) TXT - Text UI DRT - DART WAV,AU,RAW - Output File Formats OFT - All output file formats Date Key Change -------- --- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- Released 1.3 on hobbes! 07-29-96 IT Added IT2 support 07-20-96 TXT Fixed some minor bugs 07-20-96 --- Getting ready form release of 1.3 (yes, an actual release :P) -- Took a little break to experiment with some new song list code and some PM code :> 05-13-96 MBF All working again, supporting pattern skip. 05-11-96 MBF Fixed 00 infobyte on volume slides, and fixed STM tremor. 05-10-96 MBF Altered arpeggio, it is still not 100% correct, but it sounds S3M much better. 05-10-96 MBF Fixed Horrible Vibrato bug 05-10-96 S3M Fixed Square Wave to match st3 and emulated a ST3 vibrato quirk 05-10-96 MOD Upgraded to the new system, Fixed a corrupted song loader bug 05-09-96 S3M Fixed small vibrato bug 05-09-96 S3M Added pattern skip/backwards, upgraded to new system, slightly smaller 05-01-96 SFX Removed all SFX code, will be added in a more powerfull way soon 05-01-96 BSE Radically changed effect handling (Pitch/Speed) and improved, channel mute and channel efx are now coded (TextUI NOT updated to do this yet) 05-01-96 DM Added realtime pattern display, can now show current time, order GUS speed row etc (TextUI NOT updated to do this yet though) 05-01-96 BSE Changed format of pattern data and instrument data (all File Formats will need a LARGE upgrade) 04-07-96 IT Massive IT playback improvments (Thanx to Ozone!) 04-07-96 IT Fixed a small loader and playback bug as well as better corrupted song handling 04-07-96 GUS Fixed ultraclicks in pingpong loops -- 1.2me on s3m.dfwmm.net 04-05-96 DM Added Dynamic Scale Control (DSC) hit D in the ui 04-04-96 TXT Added un-RAR support (however it is slow, cause RAR doesn't work very well in pipe mode) 04-03-96 DM Added several more filters 03-29-96 S3M Changed which commands occur on frame 0 03-27-96 IT Added Impulse Tracker Playback 03-21-96 S3M Changed the 00 infobyte handling to emulate st3 and Emulates ST3's V command 03-20-96 TXT Made the instrument display use hex volumes 03-16-96 ULT Added ULT file support 03-16-96 TXT -ls option to loop the songlist 03-15-96 669 Added 669 file support 03-13-96 MOD Recognizes mod.* as a mod file. 03-13-96 DRT Fixed the way dart would chop the last 3 seconds from the song 03-13-96 S3M Fixed s3m chips 03-13-96 MBF Fixed pattern loop and fine slide 03-13-96 S3M Changed handling of 0 Global Vol songs and fixed a bug in global volume 03-07-96 DM Fixed a chip sample bug in > 88kHz chips 03-06-96 DM Improved speed, After Midnight CDE.mtm lost +13% on my machine. Also arranged for 16 bit samples to NOT be downsampled to 8 bit but for 8 bit samples to be upsampled to 16 bit, in the process about 1M of arrays were removed. 03-05-96 S3M Fixed vibrato pitch restore and tremor volume restore 03-05-96 S3M Fixed retrig/vibrato combo 03-05-96 MBF Fixed vibrato pitch restore and tremor volume restore (stm) 03-04-96 TXT Changed the instrument screen a bit 03-04-96 STM Added the full STM player 03-01-96 XM Added the full XM player 02-28-96 DRT Mucked with DART 02-17-96 MOD Fixed DOPE, all FT II mods are now rounded. 02-17-96 ALL Removed the need for HC*.dll 02-17-96 DM Pentium optimized the mixer routine 02-17-96 WOW Added WOW support 02-17-96 MOD *.NST recognized as a mod 02-17-96 MOD Names given to some song tags have changed. 02-16-96 OFT Added all the output file formats, see -f option for specifing file name, all player features are supported. 02-16-96 DM Added mono support eg, -o"22k -m6" 02-16-96 TXT Added -v# to set the default volume. 02-14-96 TXT Fixed -B 02-14-96 GUS DIV/0 fixed 02-09-96 ALL 1.2 Alpha test 02-08-96 S3M Fixed a small bug, attempts to play insts > # of insts do not play instead of playing the last one, [cant.s3m] 02-08-96 TXT Added several more command files, a few do things not possible from the UI. 02-07-96 MOD Made the loader more like the S3M one, totally unconcerned about truncated songs. Loads every song I have now, including 10 it didn't before (they were corrupted). 02-07-96 GUS Added pause and resume to the gus driver, also tuned the click removal. Fixed GPF with leave.mtm (corrupted song) 02-01-96 TXT Captured all errors from unzip and fixed the problem with songs that didn't load right, it no longer exits. 01-28-96 DRT Added bit rate and sampling rate autodetect 01-28-96 MMP Added bit rate and sampling rate autodetect 01-28-96 DM Upgraded the Digital Mixer to support pitch and speed 01-28-96 TXT Cached the song title for disply when flipping through the song list 01-28-96 S3M Enhanced corrupted song handling (Distant3.s3m) 01-26-96 GUS Upgraded the GUS driver to support alot of the new features 01-26-96 TXT Added the volume control (-,+,=), pitch control (F1 F2), speed control (F3 F4) and various combos of the above, (F5,F6, F7,F8) 01-25-96 GUS Fixed a GPF on loading some songs 01-25-96 TXT Wrote some rexx cmd files to use the pipe 01-24-96 TXT Added a remote control pipe system (see muse2rmt.cmd). This allows TOTAL control over a running copy of muse. Thanks to Khyron/Roberte for the Idea 01-23-96 TXT Added a detached mode to the UI, uses less ram/cpu etc. 01-22-96 TXT Added a neat little Size of Song list indicator, determines the total amount of space all the songs use (uncompressed). Also added -L option and L key. 01-20-96 TXT Added a new set of graphics for the display, thanks to Wizdom! -U2 will bring back the old set. 01-19-96 TXT Created the Text UI, basically a complete rewrite of the Tiny UI this new version has many improvments, including better song list handling (now does ZIP's) A few more keys and a brighter future! (Tiny UI is now gone). Few things to try: - Hold down [ or ] with a bunch of songs, great for seeking in the play list - The \ key randomly selects a song - Bit better Help screen - Now works with screen widths > 80 - Added -R and -W options (see H screen for info) 01-04-96 GUS Beta'd the GUS driver 01-04-96 FMT Added -l option, prevents song looping 01-04-96 MBF Fixed (or broke) command 13, skip pattern to row (Don't have a song that uses it) 12-29-95 DM Fixed a clip problem in CRM&CRYS.MTM, also effected other songs, ONLY in 8 bit mode 12-13-95 MOD Fixed the jump to order command 12-13-95 MOD Fixed the untagged 31 sample loader, was thinking a few 15 samp songs were 31 12-13-95 S3M Rewrote loader, faster and smaller (also loads songs that have been truncated like book.s3m) 12-13-95 TUI Autodetect Added, check out the -V option! 12-12-95 DRT More Functions added, doesn't effect the player 12-09-95 MMP Autodetect Added 12-09-95 DRT Autodetect Added 12-09-95 DM More SFX Funcions, PlaySFX and SetVolumes 11-29-95 DM Minor bugfixes for SFX 11-29-95 DRT Minor bugfixes for SFX 11-26-95 All Placed on hobbes as V1.1 11-25-95 TUI Changed the stats screen, now show song comments for MTMs 11-25-95 DM Allowed # to be used instead of % in the scaling. 11-23-95 DM Added amplfication scaling -o"22k 300% -6" 11-23-95 TUI Fixed display of sample names 11-22-95 MTM Added MTM support 11-22-95 DM Added 16 bit sample support. 11-20-95 S3M Added Arpeggio (Jxx), Pattern loop (SBx), and Set Fine tune (S2x) 11-20-95 MOD Added MOD support 11-19-95 TUI Added -s and -S options 11-19-95 TUI Added -r songlist randomizer 11-19-95 TUI Added some more information about the playback config on load 11-16-95 DRT Added a Real Time mode for Sound Effects 11-13-95 DRT Initial implementation of DART as an output method 11-01-95 S3M Note reset to base period after some commands 11-01-95 S3M Disallowed global changes on disabled channels 10-25-95 S3M Fixed Command L (Was retriggering) 10-25-95 S3M Changed command B, doesn't disable C anymore 10-25-95 S3M Fixed Command C (Decimal, not Hex) 10-20-95 All Placed on hobbes 10-20-95 S3M V1.1 Initial Release 10-20-95 DM V1.2 Initial Release 10-20-95 MMP V1.0 Initial Release 10-20-95 TUI V1.0 Initial Release