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This package was debianised, packaged and is currently maintained by me,
Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler <ujr@debian.org>, from the sources that I obtained
from the SidPlay HomePage at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/5147/
The author can be reached by mailing him to sidplay@geocities.com.
Generally I'm using pristine sources (since version 1.1.6, well, at least
approximately). First, there were .tgz's provided by the author. Later on he
moved to src.rpm's. These were unpacked by
rpm -i xsidplay-{version}.src.rpm
and
rpm -bp xsidplay-{version}.spec (or just rpm -bp xsidplay.spec)
Sometimes the author supplies patches for new upstream versions before
he uploads a complete new version to the location above. These patches
are also used if appropriate.
Version 1.3 (and newer) use GNU autoconf. Almost seemlessly integrates with
the Debian package of libsidplay1.
There's neither a man page nor an info file available, simply because the
upstream sources don't contain it. Because lintian complains about that,
I'm using the "undocumented" page - maybe, some day I'll find the time and
inspiration to write a real man page.
You may want to check the documentation on the SidPlay-Homepage, which
is included in the libsidplay1 package for offline reading.
The directory src/audio contains special audio drivers for certain other
hardware (sparc, ...). Please check if you need it when you rebuild the
package. If you can't find the correct driver for your system, you may
want to look at the sidplay source package. The current setup uses Linux
drivers.
You can use '--expert' as commandline option (don't use the menu item then)
in order to activate the oscilloscope. However this may cause breaks in the
musics (therefore you need to be an 'expert' in order to activate this mode
;-) while you're dragging windows around or while the computer needs to
access the harddisk or has other important things to do. This seems due to
restrictions of the free version of the Linux sound driver.
If you use the history window (aka poor man's playlist ;-), you may get
some weird problems which are probably related to outdated entries (ie.
deleted or moved files, eg. during HVSC update). You should press the
"clear" button in the history window after you made changes (aka updates)
to the HVSC tree, in order to reset the history and to prevent or solve
the problems.
Some more notes:
. xsidplay refuses to run in a non-X environment.
. xsidplay recognizes a file name on the commandline as a tune's name
. xsidplay can read tune data from standard input
You may want to download and install the HVSC songlength database as described
in `Readme'.
This software was developed with, and uses, QT. Please see file PACKAGING,
as well as the QT license (e.g. LICENSE and README.QT in /usr/share/doc/qt1g
or /usr/share/doc/qt2, resp.) for information.
Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler <ujr@debian.org>, Sat, 14 Oct 2000 18:42:27 +0200
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