Hi, i'm trying to locate the technical details of the file format used in 
STC file for AY music

Thanks

Andy 

On 13/08/2011 17:12, Andy Rea wrote:
> Hi, i'm trying to locate the technical details of the file format used in
> STC file for AY music

Sergey Bulba's website has various bits of documentation and source code 
for every tracker format out there:
http://bulba.untergrund.net/progr_e.htm
STDocs.rar is the one you want... but since untergrund.net has a nasty 
habit of falling over on Sundays, I've mirrored it here: 
http://zxdemo.org/extra/stdocs.zip

On Aug 13, 8:12=A0am, "Andy Rea" <f...@blogs.com> wrote:
> Hi, i'm trying to locate the technical details of the file format used in
> STC file for AY music
>
> Thanks
>
> Andy

Please consider finding a way to make the ZX81 play many of the files
already available in .AY files:

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/projectay/

"Matthew Westcott" <gasman@raww.org> wrote in message 
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> On 13/08/2011 17:12, Andy Rea wrote:
>> Hi, i'm trying to locate the technical details of the file format used in
>> STC file for AY music
>
> Sergey Bulba's website has various bits of documentation and source code 
> for every tracker format out there:
> http://bulba.untergrund.net/progr_e.htm
> STDocs.rar is the one you want... but since untergrund.net has a nasty 
> habit of falling over on Sundays, I've mirrored it here: 
> http://zxdemo.org/extra/stdocs.zip

Thanks thats just what i am after.

Andy 

"zxbruno" <zxspectrum128@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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On Aug 13, 8:12 am, "Andy Rea" <f...@blogs.com> wrote:
> Hi, i'm trying to locate the technical details of the file format used in
> STC file for AY music
>
> Thanks
>
> Andy

Please consider finding a way to make the ZX81 play many of the files
already available in .AY files:

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/projectay/

I've had a quick look at the ay spec and i just don't think it's going to be
possible to do on ZX81 (not easily) it looks like you need to be able to
emulate the full 64K memory space (or small parts of it) but on zeddy you
can't execute code above 32K boundary or 48K boundary of you have the M1not
mod, what if the player code sits above that? how to relocate potentially
non-relocateble code ?

i think for now i just get a player of sorts working and worry about the
technicallities later.

Andy

apologies Matt and Bruno, seem to have hit the wrong reply button !

:-( Andy 

On Aug 14, 10:17=A0am, "Andy Rea" <f...@blogs.com> wrote:
> apologies Matt and Bruno, seem to have hit the wrong reply button !
>
> :-( Andy

No apologies needed. Everything looks fine here. ^_^

If you have a ZX81 with the 16K ram pack, do you think you could make
it play digital samples using any of the available AY interfaces?

It's a possibility, but of course during playback there would be no display 
on ZX81 unlike Tracker playerback sample playback requires near realtime 
data output to the Ay. I'll look into it when i get bored with the trackers.

Andy

"zxbruno" <zxspectrum128@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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On Aug 14, 10:17 am, "Andy Rea" <f...@blogs.com> wrote:
> apologies Matt and Bruno, seem to have hit the wrong reply button !
>
> :-( Andy

No apologies needed. Everything looks fine here. ^_^

If you have a ZX81 with the 16K ram pack, do you think you could make
it play digital samples using any of the available AY interfaces? 

Thanks! Before you get bored with trackers, check some Sample Tracker
videos on YouTube. :)

On Aug 21, 10:55=A0am, "Andy Rea" <f...@blogs.com> wrote:
> It's a possibility, but of course during playback there would be no displ=
ay
> on ZX81 unlike Tracker playerback sample playback requires near realtime
> data output to the Ay. I'll look into it when i get bored with the tracke=
rs.
>
> Andy
>
> "zxbruno" <zxspectrum...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:cdc01641-ec9e-4482-b37b-2c831cae33bd@u6g2000prc.googlegroups.com...
> On Aug 14, 10:17 am, "Andy Rea" <f...@blogs.com> wrote:
>
> > apologies Matt and Bruno, seem to have hit the wrong reply button !
>
> > :-( Andy
>
> No apologies needed. Everything looks fine here. ^_^
>
> If you have a ZX81 with the 16K ram pack, do you think you could make
> it play digital samples using any of the available AY interfaces?