P L E A S E R E A D T H I S ! ----------------------------------- 1. Opening Words ---------------- TO MAKE IT CLEAR : The name has nothing to do with the drug Ecstasy! We are clean (we even never used it), so please follow us! 2. Introduction --------------- Hello and welcome to the brand new version of XTC-PLAY. This version was unlike all other versions not released in a hurry, but tested for a couple of months. A lot of bugs within the player and concerning some module types have been fixed, AMD interwave support has been improved a lot and which is the most important fact of all : All users of Sound Blaster(tm) compatible cards are now also able to enjoy all the advantages of the cute player. Soundblaster support means support for ALL Cards, which are able to emulate either SB16, SBPRO or SB-MONO. Support for WSS, ESS and AWE-32 will follow in the future, if we are able to get the right information and to test it with the right soundcards. AWE-32 and 64 support will come the first (Now I've got one!!!). Beside this, all nice screens which were included in the early 0.70 release are now improved, i.e. that you are now able to choose between different resolutions in the plasma screen or different colors in water or or or... Also new screens like an oscilloscope, a magic circle and a FFT are included... Loading UNIVBE 5x will increase the number of resolutions and also dramatically improves the speed of all screens if a linear framebuffer is enabled. 3. Important Updates -------------------- - Vesa 2.0 support - Soundblaster support - DMF support - IT support - MMCMP support - MPEG 1/2 layer 1,2,3 support - Diskwriter For a detailed description of all updates, you'll have to take a look inside whatsnew.txt 4. Known bugs ------------- Matrox Millenium VESA error, if you have it, send me a message and describe what happens. 5. Distribution-Sites --------------------- This part has been taken out of this document, because it got too long, so please take a look into the file named SITES.XTC. If you have an InterNet account you can always get the latest version at: << ftp.cdrom.com >> 6. Credits ---------- Real Credits: - coding : Kilroy - code for tunnel : Cohnen (no, he wasn't on drugs) - minor proposals, beta testing and fixes : Bee-Man - Ansi-design : Blacknight, Metal & Matrix Greetings and thanx are flying to our BETA testers: o Vamp o Tammo Hinrichs o Maz o Moritz Grimm o Sanders van Leuwen o Nyphton o Holger Mense o Manuel Hartl o Heiko Helmle o Speedy/Funk! Special thanx go to : o Daredevil for his good support on PMode and other coding questions o Tony Romero (AMD) for giving the interwave manual o Cohnen^Sanction for the beautiful tunnel screen o MikMak for the first idea to write a player o Michael Hipp/Oliver Fromme for basic MPEG routines + All other guys who supported us by sending along bug-reports or modules and I did forget, sorry :-I X3M thanx fly to : o Sipiyou/NortherPain who supported us with lots of information on the Interwave, difficult coding problems, most of the bug reports and many inventions. Without him, some things would have been impossible. o TMB/Daze who helped us extensively to improve the soundblaster mixingroutines during all 4 days of Mekka97. o Cohnen/Sanction which finally gave me the best mixing routines for the SB support... 7. Final Words -------------- Disclaimer: We're not responsible for any possible damage to your soft- and hardware. The only thing we guarantee is that XTC-Play will take some of your disk-space, nothing more - nothing less. XTC-Play is distributed as moduleware, this means if you think this little piece of art is useful and if you're connected to the FIDO-NET, send some of your best modules to Mautschi's Castle (2:2454/524 / +49-2632-949119). Either via fileattach or simply upload them :-) That's all for now, folks! And don't forget: <--- Drugs are only for losers! ---> ----> There are better ways to have A LOT OF phun ! <----