OctaMED is copyright 1991-1993 Teijo Kinnunen & Ray Burt-Frost. Worldwide distribution Copyrights owned by R. Burt-Frost (RBF Software). OctaMED V5 is NOT public domain nor freely distributable. It is a copyrighted program, which is available only directly from RBF Software or officialy registered/contracted companies licenced with RBF Software. You are not allowed to distribute/pass on OctaMED in any way. However as a registered purchaser you may take two backup copies for retention in case of corruption,these must be retained for your own, private use. Note that some files in this disk are freely distributable: OctaMEDPlayer may be freely distributed (so you can easily distribute songs you've made using OctaMED). The OctaMED player routines and player libraries may be freely used and distributed with non-commercial programs,(PD/Shareware etc), in this case no permission is required for distributing them. If you intend releasing a package that is intended as Copyright and for sale as such,you MUST legaly obtain a licence from RBF Software. The address of RBF Software is given in the Contact Adresses. (Now only available direct from Publisher. (SEE PROGRAMMERS DRAWER) OctaMED is provided "as is". Every effort has been made to keep OctaMED as bug free as possible,but if there are bugs that may cause you to lose something,it is important that you note by loading and launching this program,you are agreeing to absolve the author or RBF Software from any liability and you are agreeing not to pursue any claim for such losses. Powerpacker.library is Copyright © 1991-1992 Nico François. Reproduced and distributed by agreement with Nico. Certain libraries,such as AmigaGuide, AmigaGuide.info and the amigaguide.library are (c) Copyright 1992 Commodore-Amiga, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduced and distributed by RBF Software under license from Commodore. AMIGAGUIDE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS-IS" AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE; NO WARRANTIES ARE MADE. ALL USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY IS ASSUMED. Excluding Commodore's Public Domain IFF sample loader routines, the entire program has been designed and programmed by Teijo Kinnunen. OctaMED.guide help file has been written by Ed Wiles (partially based on documentation of older versions of OctaMED). Thanks for your excellent work, Ed! The icons for OctaMED/OctaMEDPlayer have been designed by Izrael Similä (Iz Productions). Thanks! OctaMED has been pre-release-tested by Ed, Daniel, Stephan, Pasi and Håkan. Thank you! Also thanks for the numerous suggestions sent by numerous people. And last, but certainly not the least, thanks to Ray for suggesting and subsequently taking care of the world distribution of OctaMED! The full save version of OctaMED is available from the following Companies: Seasoft: 1st Floor, 80 Woodlands Avenue, Rustington, W.Sussex. BN16 3EY Amiganuts United: 199 Taylor Street, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia 4350 (Note that Amiganuts United (UK) are no longer licenced with RBF Software) DevWare inc.: 12528 Kirkham Court, Suite 11, Poway, CA 92064 (USA) Amisound: Kallvagen 14, S-856 51 Sundsvall, SWEDEN. L'Agora Srl: C.so Vittorio Emanuel 15, 20122 Milano, ITALY. MegaDisk Pty Ltd. P.O. Box 759, Crows Nest, Australia 2065. AM/FM c/o Bjørne Lynne, Schleppegrellsgt.10, 0556 Oslo, Norway. J.P.C Computers & Toebehoren. Schietboomstraat 9 B-3600 Genk, Belgium. France-Festival-Distribution. 3 Rue Anatole, Fr 13220 Chateauneuf-Les-Margtigues, FRANCE. For further details, see their adverts, or write to them enclosing an S.A.E. More suppliers may become available in your own part of the world. If not, ask your supplier to contact RBF Software at the address given in the Contact Addresses section, for registration details. For further details, see their adverts, or write to them enclosing an S.A.E. More suppliers may become available in your own part of the World,if not then ask your supplier to contact RBF Software at the address given in the Contact Addresses section BELOW,for registration details. For any matters concerning distribution, sales, copyright ,licencing, or such, you should contact the world copyright owners RBF Software: RBF Software 169, Dale Valley Road Hollybrook Southampton SO1 6QX ENGLAND (0703) 785680 Answerphone/Fax service line only. Copyright ©1991-1993 Teijo Kinnunen & Ray Burt-Frost (RBF Software). For matters concerning the program itself, e.g. suggestions, ideas and bug reports, you can write to the author: Teijo Kinnunen Oksantie 19 FIN-86300 OULAINEN FINLAND FidoNet 2:228/402 (Lightning Zone BBS) I'm sorry, I have no access to Internet at the moment, however, you can probably access the FidoNet address: teijo.kinnunen@f402.n228.z2.fidonet.org Due to the amount of received mail and limited spare time, the author will probably not be able to reply (unless it's _really_ important). I'm sorry about this.. I can't afford to hire a secretary.. ;-) E-Mail messages will probably be answered, though, as it's much quicker and easier. Anyway, you are very welcome to write and share your ideas and feelings. Even if I cannot answer personally, all suggestions/ideas will be considered. NOTE: The author will be doing military service during the period June 1993 - March 1994. If not very urgent, please do not attempt to contact the author during that period. Please remember to indicate the version number of OctaMED you are using. If you are reporting bugs, also indicate the embedded version number, as returned by the Shell command: version OctaMED full Because of the military service, major development of OctaMED will be frozen until Spring 1994. "Thoughts and ideas for future development" The development will continue in Spring 1994. I'm planning to add a lot of smaller but useful features,plus Some major plans including: * ARexx support * DSP/New sound chip support## * and more ##These features will be added, if the A5000 DSP Sound chip comes available as an add-on for the V2/V3 A500+ /A3000 /A1200 etc. (there are a lot of rumors, at least), and if they CAN easily be fitted into my A3000, and if CBM or someone,can supply myself and Ray with these, along with sufficient documentation. IF you are keen on getting an add-on 16 bit sound board for your Amy, the ONLY way is to let Commodore know that you want it. So get writting to: The Techincal Department. CBM (UK) Ltd., Commodore House, The Switchback, Gardner Road, Maidenhead, Berks. SL6 7XA. Tell them that you want an OctaMED that utilises 16 bit and as you don't want to be forced over to the,(shudder),Falcon,will they please hurry and release an add-on board using 16 bit sound for your machine! ~~~~ The more letters they get the better and maybe then *V6* will contain this excellent,long awaited sound feature. (*V6 LATE AUGUST 1994*) -> Write to them now!, don't put it off,it never gets done. :-)