Sorry this version has taken so long to send out.  I finished it
almost a month ago, but kept it for a week or so to iron out any
possible bugs.  During this week, I forgot I had it, so three more
weeks went by before I noticed.  Then someone posted on usenet asking
where oplay could be found, and I remembered this version sitting in
my electronic closet.  Rather than posting a pointer to the currently
available version, I decided to ftp this one out, and announce it as
a reply to the request.

This version is supplied primarily as a bug-fix to v1.22.  A few days
after fixing the bugs in 1.21 and sending the 1.22 patch out, I
discovered some potentially machine-fatal problems in 1.22.  I hope
that no one has encountered these.  I forget whether I noticed these
bugs as effects or by looking at the source code, but it was in the
source that I found the problem with '--' options.  This has been
fixed, as well.  All changes for this version are documented in the
file 'CHANGES.doc'.

I know that stereo support is sorely needed.  I finally found out how
to do this (no, I have no manuals and cannot afford them at the
moment), but it might be a while before I have time to implement it.
Strangely enough, OmniPlay is (by design) better at handling foreign
file formats than it is at playing IFF-8SVX.  It still plays over 99%
of 8SVX files perfectly, but some things like stereo and nested FORMs
(LISTs) are not properly handled.  I intend to try to fix this later,
but I haven't time at present.

Guess that's about all that's on my mind now.  You probably won't
notice any difference between this and v1.22 of OmniPlay (except
possibly speed and program size...I've forgotten).  But without it,
you might one day feel a great deal of pain as your whole machine
swirls miserably into the Great Bitbucket that not even the Guru
can defeat.  Or something like that.

--David
13 Dec 1992