Chromatiks 2 by Hornet [web]
Chromatiks 2 Multi-group Music Disk Info-File
(Be sure to read all the way to the end of this file, or you'll miss my
apology, acknowledgements, and a special warning.)
The Playing screen:
When Chromatiks 2 starts, you'll see huge letters that fill the screen, and
the PanSelect tune will start playing. Here's a guide to what you see on the
screen:
- The text window is in the center and provides comments on the music.
- The note/staff window is on the left side of the screen, and it shows
you what notes are where. Effective on some songs; not so on others.
(Originally this was scrolling across the whole screen, but it didn't
look right, so I took it out. If you want a player that has notes
scrolling across the screen, email me at [email protected]).
- The RealBar display is at the bottom, and displays the accurate volume
level of each channel. I finally optimized this enough so that it's
fast on the Gravis Ultrasound as well.
- The second-to-last thin bar at the bottom of the screen should move
slowly across the screen; that's the progress indicator. When it hits
the edge of the screen, the song is over.
- The last thin bar on the bottom of the screen is the volume indicator.
It shows the overall volume level of the mixing (or mixer, on the GUS).
Normally, the songs will cycle forever, and you can use <ESC> to exit. There
are some keys you can use while the music is playing:
0-9 Change the song
<ENTER> Skip forward
<BACKSPACE> Skip backward
H Headphone panning
S Speaker panning
M Mono panning
P Pause the music
+ Raise the volume
- Lower the volume
<ESC> Exit
Trixter Greets:
- All composers who contributed songs to this disk and Chromatiks 1
- All composers whose songs I couldn't use (Bahc, and others, I'm sorry)
- All the people who gave me great comments, and kept me going
- All members of Hornet (I'm in a group! Finally! ;)
- Mr. Kahn (keep in contact!) and Veritech Knight (I'm a judge! Yes! ;)
- All people who attended NAID
- The guy who had a heavy french accent at NAID who told me how much
he liked GRIND (I remember the bug, and I've fixed it--look for a
bugfix soon, and Grind 2.0 with color!)
- DareDevil/Ren'95, for talking to me for over an hour the first night of
NAID in the Kosmic room. Finally, someone else to talk to about coding! :-)
- Basehead/KFMF/FM, for going to the arcade with us the last night of NAID.
Man, were you tired. :-)
- Cairn McGreggor, the Scottish judge! (yeah, right--like he'll ever
see this)
- Maelcum, for not laughing at me when I joined the Rave
A Warning:
I only had two days to program this thing before I had to release it (I
wanted to release it on the one-year anniversary of Chromatiks 1), so the
player *DOES* have some bugs. Sometimes notes will be left playing at the
end of the song, so ignore that. If the player encounters an unrecoverable
error, it will exit and tell you what the problem is. Usually, all you have
to do to recover is to run Chromatiks 2 again and then jump right to the song
that had the error, which will then play normally.
Finally, A Note from Trixter:
All I can say is that I'm truly sorry about the quality of this music disk; I
wanted much more, but all I had time for was the very basic design. I didn't
have a graphics artist either, for that matter, but I thank AAP/ACME for
drawing a sample logo that I thought looked really cool, and I thank
Burt/ex-Sonic PC for offering his services.
Please email me ([email protected]) with any comments, good or bad. Also,
don't forget to check out the "PC Demos Explained" series of WWW demo-pages,
at this URL:
http://www.mcs.com/~trixter/html/demos.html
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