[Coco] MUSICA 2 files

[Robert Gault]

Roger Taylor wrote:


> At 05:21 PM 12/25/2007, you wrote:

> 

>> Roger,

>> did you get the DSK images I tried to send?

>> Regards,

>> Torsten

> 

> 

> 

> 

> Sorry for the delay.  Yes, I got them, thanks.  I also found my own 

> Musica file disks but I was using the wimgtool.exe utility to extract 

> the .mus files which was doing a LF/CR translation as if they were in 

> ASCII format.  Now I'm using port.exe.

> 

> Another issue, as I've mentioned before, is that some .mus files have an 

> extra 256 bytes at the start for playing the music.  Some don't.  If you 

> assume all do, and type LOADM, then EXEC, some will crash.  However, if 

> you first load one that has the embedded player, then you can LOADM any 

> other mus files later and then EXEC 16128 to play the current one, 

> whether it came with an embedded player or not.

> 

> Ofcourse, my games use an IRQ/FIRQ handler for playing these in the 

> background, so only the music data is needed.  I can embed MUSICA files 

> using CCASM by doing something like:

> 

>         org     3584

>         .. some code, data, etc. ..

> 

>         align   $100

> tune1   includebin      bee.mus

> 

>         align   $100

> tune2   includebin      venice.mus

> 

>         align   $100

> tune3   includebin      imperial.mus

> 

> 

> 

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Try wimgtool selecting RAW to ASCII. That should leave the files alone.