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sc68 - Atari ST and Amiga music player

               Copyright (C) 1998-2003  Benjamin Gerard
                          <ben@sashipa.com>
                  <http://sashipa.ben.free.fr/sc68/>
               <http://sourceforge.net/projects/sc68/>

Introduction

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New release of sc68 version 2.

It consists on a source distribution that trying to be compliant with GNU requiments.

This new API should much easier to use for developers who want to use sc68 music files in their programs or make a portage for unsupported system.

Install

This package contains many programs and libraries that will be installed in your system. Here is a complete list of what get installed once you have completed the installation :

1. sc68 - command line player
2. as68 - a 68000 macro assembler
3. info68 - get sc68 information (title, author ...)
4. debug68 - create and debug sc68 files
5. unice68 - an ice depacker
6. sourcer68 - a 68000 disassembler
7. sc68-config - replacement to pkg-config if missing
8. sc68.pc - pkg-config description file
9. A few libraries - emu68, io68, file68, api68, desa68
10. man and info pages

Here is quick installation instructions for hurry people. For more installation instruction read the `INSTALL' file.

1. Get in the package top directory (which contains this file).
2. type `sh ./configure'. Watch out eventual error messages.
3. type `make'.
4. Get a root shell, type `su' <enter root password>
5. Install binary, library and data. Type `make install'.
6. Exit root shell and go back to user. Type `exit'.
7. Optionally create sc68 user resource path Type `mkdir $HOME/.sc68'.
8. You're done.

Please report any installation problem.

Music files

sc68 needs special music files. sc68 project tries to build a complete database of Atari ST and Amiga musics. Check out sc68 website :

<http://sashipa.ben.free.fr/sc68/>

You will find there almost all Atari ST musics ever done and many Amiga "chip" tunes from various music players.

There is a sample music in this distribution. You can find it in the sc68 resource path.
Its location depends on your installation configuration. It should be something like:

`/usr/local/share/sc68/Sample/About-Intro.sc68'

If you have installed xmms68, just load this file. Else you can try to play it with the `play' program (from sox package) :

       `sc68 "/usr/local/share/sc68/Sample/About-Intro.sc68" |
                play - -c 2 -f s -r 44100 -s w -t raw'

!! New !! sc68 can now load SNDH files. You can find many od them on Atari ST related website.

Documentation

This package installs both info and man pages. Type `info sc68' or `man sc68` or `man info68' ... etc ...