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          | History... |   
          | In 
              1995 I created the YM 
              file format and wrote ST-Sound, a program to play ATARI-ST on 
              your PC. I was very happy to see how ST-Sound was popular. MS-Dos 
              player at first, I write a Windows player, a winamp and a netscape 
              plugin. ( then some website use Atari tunes !). And 
              then time passed and I worked on other stuff. Quite often, some 
              people asked me to release the source code, and I always answered 
              that I should clean some code and add license stuff, so I never 
              take time.. Now 
              it's done ! 2005, ten years after the first ST-Sound creation, here 
              is the ST-Sound library with sample project, all under GPL license. 
              The code is not as clean as I hope but no time to change it. Don't 
              forget almost all that stuff was written in 1995 :-) |   
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          | Package 
            details |   
          | ST-Sound 
              library package comes with four main directories.: StSoundLibrary  
              This 
                is the most important directory. Portable ( I hope !! :-)) C++ 
                code to play YM files into your own production. There is a simple 
                "C like" user API, and you just need to include "StSoundLibrary.h" 
                to work with YM files. See tutorial projects for details. Theorically 
                should compile under windows, linux, etc. YmToWav  
              Tutorial 
                code. Portable ( I hope !! :-)) code to render an YM file into 
                a WAV file. Works in command line. theorically should compile 
                under windows, linux, etc.  SmallYmPlayer  
              Tutorial 
                code. Non portable (windows only) real time YM player using StSoundLibrary. 
                Works under windows (use the waveOut sound API) YmSampleFiles  
              Only 
                contains a set of YM sample files to fastly test the library without 
                browsing the whole world wide web ! :-) |   
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          | Compiling |   
          | The 
              package is done to work very nicely with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 
              ( Visual .NET is pure bullshit! ) For 
              Visual C++ 6.0 users: Load StSoundGPL.dsw file into your lovely 
              IDE and just build one of the tutorial sample or the main library. 
              Everything should work like a charm without pain. For 
              other users ( .NET, Linux, Gameboy color or other strange system), 
              just search in your head some very, very oldschool knowledge and 
              build a nice makefile :-) ( should be easy for StSoundLibrary)  |   
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          | Legal 
            infos |   
          | ST-Sound 
              library, Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Arnaud Carré ( http://leonard.oxg.free.fr 
              ) ST-Sound 
              library is distributed under GNU 
              GPL license. If you use it in your own production, please include 
              at least that ZIP package and make me a little credits :-). You 
              can find the GPL legal file within that package ( license.txt ).  As 
              almost all YM files on the web are packed with LZH method, ST-Sound 
              includes LZH depacking code written by Haruhiko Okumura and modifyed/improved 
              by Kerwin F. Medina. |   
          |  |  Enjoy ATARI-ST sound !! http://leonard.oxg.free.fr |