WASAP - Windows Another Slight Atari Player
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WASAP is a tiny player of Atari 8-bit music for Windows. To install it,
simply extract the archive to a directory of your choice. WASAP is designed
to work on any version of Windows, starting with Windows 95.

When you run WASAP, an "Open file" dialog appears. Simply select the file
you want to listen to. Later, WASAP is controlled by its tray icon. When you
hover the mouse pointer over the icon, the name of the loaded file appears.
If the file contains several songs, the number of the currently playing song
and the number of songs in the file are shown.

To open another file, left-click the tray icon. The other options are
available with a right click on the icon. "RF" quality means POKEY sound
emulation programmed by Ron Fries. "MB" means Michael Borisov's emulation.

WASAP is part of the ASAP project. Information about ASAP follows.


ASAP - Another Slight Atari Player
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ASAP is a player/converter of Atari 8-bit music for modern computers.
It provides high-quality, identical to the popular Atari800 emulator,
emulation of the POKEY sound chip and the 6502 processor.

This release includes the following programs that use the ASAP engine:
* ASAP2WAV - portable command-line utility that generates WAV files
* WASAP - tiny player for Windows
* plugin for foobar2000 0.8
* plugin for Winamp
* plugin for XMMS

Currently supported input formats are:
* SAP (Slight Atari Player) - standard file format for playing Atari 8-bit
  music on modern computers. Samples are not supported yet.
* CMC (Chaos Music Composer) - popular music editor for Atari.
* CMR (CMC Rzog) - CMC with modified bass sounds.
* DMC (DoublePlay CMC) - CMC with 6502 routines executed at double rate
  of the original CMC.
* MPT (Music ProTracker) - another popular music editor for Atari.
  Samples are not supported yet.
* MPD (MPT DoublePlay) - MPT with 6502 routines executed at double rate
  of the original MPT.
* RMT (Raster Music Tracker) - new editor for composing Atari music on a PC.
* TMC (Theta Music Composer) - powerful music editor for Atari.
* TM8 (Theta Music Composer 8-channel) - stereo TMC tunes.

The biggest collection of SAP files is ASMA (Atari SAP Music Archive,
http://asma.atari.org). It is strongly recommended that you use ASMA 3.0
or newer. 226 files in ASMA 3.0 contain samples, the remaining 1780 can be
used with the current version of ASAP.

If you are interested in the ASAP project, please subscribe its mailing list:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/asap-users
As in the Atari800 project, this is a combined list for end users
and for developers. Once you subscribe, you can post comments, ideas
and questions about ASAP. They will be answered ASAP. ;-)

If, for some reason, you do not want to subscribe the mailing list,
but have a bug report, feature request or a small code patch, you can use
the sf.net tracker. Use "Bugs", "Feature Requests" or "Patches" link
on this page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/asap/
Although you may submit your requests anonymously, it is strongly recommended
that you login to sf.net first (create an account if necessary). This way you
will receive email notifications about changes made to your request, and you
can be reached if your request needs a clarification. Please double-check
the TODO file before reporting a supposed bug (which may be really lack
of a feature) or submitting a feature request. Patches submitted
via the request tracker must be small and created against the current
development code stored in CVS.

ASAP is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License,
or (at your option) any later version.

ASAP is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty
of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
See the included GNU General Public License for more details.


People who have contributed to ASAP
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Atari800 Development Team  (http://atari800.sourceforge.net)
* 6502 and POKEY emulation

Michael Borisov
* new POKEY sound emulation in Atari800

Ron Fries
* original POKEY sound emulation in Atari800

Piotr Fusik  <fox@scene.pl>
* author and maintainer of ASAP
* ASAP2WAV
* WASAP
* plugins for foobar2000, Winamp, XMMS

Marcin Lewandowski  <jaskier@atari8.info>
* original 6502 routines for playing CMC, MPT and TMC

Radek Sterba  <raster@infos.cz>
* 6502 routine for RMT

Lukasz Sychowicz  <xray@scene.pl>
* Windows icons


History
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* ASAP 0.2.0 (2006-01-15)

This release supports stereo and 16-bit audio output (enabled by default).
Compressed SAP files (for example Fractals.sap) are played correctly.
Subsongs are supported in RMT files.
There are new plugins: for XMMS and for foobar2000 version 0.8.
WASAP supports Windows Explorer's "Open with".


* ASAP 0.1.0 (2005-12-31)

This is the initial release of ASAP (Another Slight Atari Player)
- a player/converter of Atari 8-bit music for modern computers.
ASAP provides high-quality, identical to the popular Atari800 emulator,
emulation of the POKEY sound chip and the 6502 processor.

This release includes: ASAP2WAV - portable command-line utility for converting
Atari 8-bit music to WAV files, WASAP - a tiny player for Windows
and in_asap - a Winamp plugin. Currently supported input formats are:
SAP (except for samples and stereo), CMC, CMR, DMC, MPT (without samples),
MPD, RMT (mono) and TMC (mono).


