YES. At last it is here...

The PRO-PACKER V1.0 by ESTRUP/STATIC BYTES.


This little tool can best be described as a NoisePacker/Replayer, supporting
ProTracker V1.1B modules, including ALL the new effect-commands.

The Pro-Packer itself is very simple to use, just follow the instructions.
Note that you can exit by just pressing return when asked a filename, both
upon "Module to pack" and "Module to save".

The replayer is used just like any other Pro/Noise/Soundtracker-replayer:
Call mt_init at the beginning, mt_music every frame and mt_end to stop.
Please note that the replayer supports only VBlank-timing, not CIA. Also note
that the replayer uses a Level 6-interrupt.
The average amount of raster-time used by the replayer is about 22
raster-lines. Not very fast, but it's a lot faster than the original
PT1.1B-replayer, which I've seen use up to 57! raster-lines when playing
certain modules.


As you'll notice, the Pro-Packer is much less efficient than NoisePacker,
and the replayer uses about 3 times the raster-time of the NoisePacker
FastReplay. Therefore, you should only use the Pro-Packer for ProTracker
V1.1B-modules not supported by NoisePacker and it's replayer(s). The fact
that a module is composed in ProTracker doesn't necessarily prevent it from
being supported by NoisePacker, as long as none of the new effect-commands or
fine-tuning are used.

In the (near?) future, I'll make an update with a faster replayer, but until
then, if you have any comments, suggestions, bug-reports etc., I'll be more
than glad to hear them. You can reach me at:

Christian Estrup
Tornevangsvej 5 B
DK-3460 Birkeroed
DENMARK
phone: (+45) 42 81 48 49


Pro-Packer V1.0 is Public Domain. It may be freely distributed, as long as
the files PP1.0.doc and PPReplay.S are included (without that, the packer is
totally useless). NO profit WHATSOEVER may be made from selling Pro-Packer
V1.0.