Hot thanks
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 - Nicolas Franck (Gryzor) for his marvellous (c) Pro-Wizard-2 :).

 - Mickael Doering for the *nix port and the constructives comments !.

 - Philippe Anel (Xigh) for compiling the WIN32 version

 - Slight for believeing in this wild project !. Wassup bro ?.

 - Thomas Neumann for pointing out a lot of bugs !.

 - Laurent Clevy for the numerous Synth Formats descriptions !.

 - Everyone who'll write to me about this program :).



Some words
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 So, yet here is another version with still some debugging done !. Seems I'll
never see the end of it :). Anyway, Since I've some spare time these days,
I come back on this prog. Though, I put my efforts onto the 'synth' part.
Also, I'm a-working on some rather old/never used EXE packers.

 here are some things one ought to know about possible 'failure' of
Pro-Wizard-1 (for PeeCee) ... meaning this prog might overlook or mistake
some formats. The "sensibles" formats are :
 - Noisepacker v1 and v2
  (these two formats are VERY similars ... a NP1 can be recognised as a NP2.
   Rather harmless I should says, but ..)
 - Unic tracker v1 and v2
  (These two formats can be recognised as the other ... or even as a ptk but
   this very case has 0.01% chance to happen :). The first case, however, is
   most probable ... . The difference isn't that important, mind .. a title !)
 - The Player 6.0A and 6.1A with packed samples are on hold. Jarno *did*
  answer my old email (thx man !) and sent me a torough description on
  how to depack samples. Sadly, I've no time at all to do that these days.

 Most of the depackers included are still real gibberish code. I've rewritten
quite a few yet, but I've found it's very expensive in time to rewritte
lame old code :(. Not sure I'll finnish this ... .

 I've depacked NoiseTracker pack a long time ago ... but I wont include this
format in ProWiz bcoz my depacker isn't 100% reliable :(. The fact is that
if there are Arpeggii in the music, I cant find any single way to detect it.
contact me for more infos :), I'll send you the description I've made ..
reliable this one !.

 One word about StoneCracker v4.04 data files ... . I've included this format
and several others because I'm fed-up doing it handly with Hex-ed !.
The ripped files are STILL packed !, and you'll need to depack them with tools
like XfdDecrunch. If you know how to depack these, you're welcome to send
me some source code (68k or not).
 Also, I've expanded this to other fairly well used packers. Yet, I still
dont know how to depack this by myself. Extracting that way saves hours of
Hex-work .. at least for me :).

 One word about JamCracker. Xag version (JamCracker Pro 1.0A) saves a 19 bytes
title at the end of the module. Prowiz for PC doesn't rip it since it's NOT
in the original format. That's the only difference in the two versions (even
if Xag's doc says there's no diff ...). So, if you want the title, just check
the 19 bytes after the module.

 About Sound FX format, v1.3 and v1.8 are the same. Note that I attempted a
conversion to ptk ... but most of the effects are not supported ... simply
because I dont know what they do .. (doc please !). So, the conversion is
only at a beta stage ... the rip is ok though :).




Hellos and Messages
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 Slight : Les nouvelles se font rares :(.

 Gryzor : Des ziks de Pat qui sont donnees comme etant de Bug Vindicator ? ...
          et ben c'est dans les rep MAZ3:W_COPPER. sinon, ca donne quoi
          pour Mod-Anth 2 ?. On va les avoir ces fameux chip de 4mat en XM ?.

 Xann   : Contacte moi SVP !!!!!. J'ai, encore une fois, perdu ton addresse !.
          J'ai retrouve une intro de Silents codee par toi (91 ou 92 je crois)
          mais le format de la zik est zarb ... ca ressemble a ton "celebre"
          XANN player, mais ca colle pas vraiment. Tu as fais plusieurs
          version ? ou est-ce ce "fameux" Xann packer (le vrai) ???.

 Buzz   : Keep up the GOOOD work on Exotica.

 Xigh   : et ce tracker, bordel !?!?!?.



Contact the author
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 Several ways to contact me ..

 - Snail mail (new !!)
               Chipaux "asle" Sylvain
               70 rue de la Monesse
               92310 Sevres
               France

 - E-Mail
               asle@altavista.net
               (can get attached binary files).
               or catch me on Exotica Mailing list !.


 - WWW
               http://asle.free.fr/prowiz/
               there's always the latest src version on there


 - Tel
               none at now
               


Last word
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 I'll welcome ANY comment that might arise from this program. Also, new
formats or bug reports (with Pro-Wizard (for PeeCee) version number !).



 Sylvain "asle" Chipaux.
