+---------------------------------------------------------------+ | STARTREKKER 1.1 | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ CODED BY EXOLON OF FAIRLIGHT RELEASE DATE: 21/10-1990 ------------------------New features in 1.1-------------------------- In this release I have done a great deal of 'cleaning up'... 1. Opens an own intuition screen so mouseclicks won't fall through to the underlying workbench and cause trouble. 2. MULTITASKS correctly... Just press the screen to back gadget on the ST screen and it will lie quiet in the background Wait()ing... When you want to return to the st, just select the st window on the st screen by pressing the workbench depth gadgets. 3. KEYBOARD ROUTINE REWRITTEN! Using an IDCMP port connected to the st window... The ST now works on any configuration without using the -h option. So now you can choose your own key repeat speed in Preferences. NOTE: Key repeat will be disabled when not in Edit mode. Otherwise it wouldn't sound very good if you just play with the keys, hold one down and it goes R...rrrrrrrrrrrrrr..... If you have the polyphonic mode on (see the old docs below) you can now press many keys at the same time and play CHORDS... Great eh? 4. 8 CHANNEL EDITOR! Now the editor is in MED-RES in 8 channel mode so you can edit all 8 channels at the same time... When in polyphonic mode, choose voice 1-4 with LEFT ALT + F6-F9 and choose voice 5-8 with LEFT ALT + LEFT SHIFT + F6-F9. 5. INSERT/DELETE note in the editor. In edit mode, press return and the notes below in the column will go down one step.. Just as in an ordinary text editor. Also, by pressing Backspace you will delete the note the cursor's on and the notes below will be moved up one step. 6. FREEMEM now prints with 6 chars... So those of you with 2 meg chip can see all.. 7. COMMANDS implemented in 8 channel mode: $1 Frequency up $2 Frequency down $4 Vibrato $A Volume slide $C Volume change $D Pattern break $F Tempo change It's not a very great idea to load a 4 channel tune and go 8 channels.. Because of the way the 8 channel routine works, it is very difficult to make the portamento commands in 4 and 8 mode equal f.ex. 8. The DISKOP menu now uses a real filerequester.. So you can go loading songs, modules and samples from wherever you want... There is no delete buttons on the diskop menu because in the filerequester you can delete any file you want. 9. The StarTrekker 1.1 is linked with a real startup object file. So now it works on an A3000 under Kickstart 2.0! Some bugs fixed: When saving an 8 channel module or song the last odd pattern was lost. This is now corrected. (Thanx Lord CMP of Paradise for reminding me about that one.) Restart didn't work in 8 channel mode. I had it fixed in one version but unfortunately there was a slight version mix up. Now it's fixed. There was a bug in the NoiseTracker 2.0 when loading the .NT extra file. It was supposed to contain the midi transpose values etc. but they got overwritten as soon as the file had been loaded. This is now corrected. NOTE: The StarTrekker 1.2 is scheduled to incorporate synthetic sounds. Suggestions are welcome... Signed: EXOLON OF FAIRLIGHT 21/10-1990 If you have any suggestions, you can write to me at this address: (NO SWAPPING!) Bjorn Wesen Roslins v.20A S-217 55 Malmoe SWEDEN OLD DOCS: POINT KEY: ( [.] On the keypad) With the point key you can select three playmodes. With one press, one dot will appear next to FREEMEM. You can now play with the keypad like a drum machine. The pitch for each instrument is set by pressing left ALT + the desired pitch key. With two presses, it's just like above but now the notes will be written to the pattern when in edit or record mode. With three presses, you will activate the POLYPHONIC mode. Now you can play on the keyboard, and the StarTrekker will automatically change voices. You can choose which voices are used by toggling them on and off with left ALT + F6-F9. QUANTIZE: With the quantize control, you can choose how many lines the cursor should jump when you enter a note in a pattern. The number is increased by pressing the left mouse button in the QUANT box, or by pressing CTRL. The number is decreased by pressing the left and right mouse buttons in the box, or by pressing left SHIFT + CTRL. COLOR CONTROL: Because the ordinary grey color is so utterly boring, you can choose between a bunch of colors by pressing ALT + F10. If you don't like any of them, SHIFT + F10 makes your day by randomizing the colors! MIDI: INCOMING MIDI: With the R: control you can select the channel the ST will respond to. You can play on the synthesizer's three middle octaves just like on the Amiga keyboard. The ST will NOT respond to MIDI clocks, Active Sensing or other control commands. OUTGOING MIDI: With the C: control you can select an outgoing channel for the current instrument. The L: controls for how long (how many patterns steps) the note will be played. If there is any C commands (volume change) in the pattern, these will be sent along with the notes as Attack Velocity. The T: finally is a transpose control. The ST will send out MIDI clocks in the same tempo as you have selected with the F command. Also the ST will transmit Midi Start and Midi Stop when you start or stop a tune. Remember to turn the MIDI on! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BYE! HA DET BRA! /EXOLON