MYMPlay.txt

      MYMPLAY 0.4 by Lieves!Tuore

This is just a quick project inspired
by discussion in comp.sys.msx.

STSound by Leonard/Oxygene is a player
for YM files, which are basically just
plain PSG register dumps. The format is
unfortunately not well suited for a
low-memory system like MSX1. Therefore,
I introduced a brand new fileformat
called MYM. It holds the same data but
compressed differently.

To convert between YM and MYM there's a
utility, YM2MYM. It packs a _raw_ YM
file to a MYM file. So before you start
to convert shitload of YM tunes, unpack
them with LHA first. Only YM2/YM3/YM3b
files can be converted at the moment.
Many new YM's are YM5, however.

The other files are MYM2YM for reverse
conversion and of course the player
itself (including the source). The
assembly source is for Table-driven
assembler (TASM), not GEN80, sorry
about that. I stripped the tailing 0's
from the final .COM file to make it
smaller (Now it IS small ;v)

Thanks to Spectrum and CPC fanatics
we now have version for both platforms
too. MSX version is the most "mature"
one at the moment, but let's see about
that...

Version 0.4 comes with an updated
YM2MYM converter that now recognizes
YM5 files. The actual MYMPlay is
better too, it takes 1.7kB less memory
so you can play bigger tunes (if any).

You'll find a pile of MYM tunes here:
ftp://ftp.kameli.net/pub/mym/
And the latest version of MYMPLAY here:
http://www.kameli.net/lt/

        Marq/L!T, marq@iki.fi