ASAP - Another Slight Atari Player

Designed for playing 8-bit Atari music on PCs. All other formats can be converted to SAP. Atari SAP Music Archive (ASMA) is a single big collection of SAP files.

Atari music editor from early 1990s.

CMC with modified pattern length.

CMC with modified bass sounds.

Stereo CMC.

CMC with 6502 routine executed at double rate of the original CMC.

Atari music editor from 1990s.

Atari music editor from 1990s.

Atari music editor from 1990s.

MPT with 6502 routine executed at double rate of the original MPT.

Modern Atari music editor running on Windows.

Atari music editor from late 1990s. The two file extensions are treated identically and played in stereo. TM8 means it’s stereo (8-channel) music while TMC can be either mono or stereo.

Modern Atari music editor.

This isn’t a music format. It’s a text file that contains cover information and comments for many music files. This format is identical to C64 STIL. STIL.txt is distributed with ASMA (see above).

Extract asapconv.exe to a directory of your choice (for convenience, this directory should be included in your Path environment variable).
Run the program from command line to see the syntax. The -o/--output option selects the output format and is mandatory.

Extract wasap.exe to a directory of your choice.
When you run WASAP, an "Open file" dialog appears. Simply select the file you want to listen to. WASAP is later controlled by its tray icon. When you hover the mouse pointer over the icon, the name of the loaded file appears. To open another file, left-click the tray icon. The other options are available in the menu which appears when you right-click the icon.

Extract ASAP_Apollo.dll to the Plug-ins directory of your Apollo installation.

Extract foo_asap.dll to the components directory of your foobar2000 installation.

Put gspasap.dll in the directory which contains the GSPlayer executable.

Extract in_asap.dll to the Plugins directory of your Winamp installation. It is recommended that you remove other plugins that support 8-bit Atari music.

To install: extract asap_dsf.dll, install_dsf.bat and uninstall_dsf.bat to a directory of your choice, then run install_dsf.bat.
To uninstall: run uninstall_dsf.bat, then delete the files.

Put xbmc_asap.dll in the system/players/paplayer directory. This DLL can be used with XBox and Windows versions of XBMC. Your XBMC must include support for ASAP.

Extract xmp-asap.dll to your XMPlay directory.
If you want to use the "File information" window (to edit tags or convert between SAP and other formats), assign a shortcut to it from XMPlay options.

Extract apokeysnd.dll to the directory which contains Rmt.exe.

There are new ports: Android, Audacious plugin, Silverlight and a simple command-line player using SDL. WASAP has been ported to Windows CE. There’s a new CAB package for Windows CE. Re-running WASAP opens the file selector. JavaScript ASAP2WAV now works in Rhino Shell, Google V8 shell, JScript.NET and JaegerMonkey. A slight fix and an optimization have been applied to 6502 emulation. "Show information about the currently playing file" is now available in XMPlay and has been fixed in Winamp.

The SAP file format has been extended with the "NTSC" tag. A BASS add-on (works in AIMP) has been created. A crash in XMPlay has been fixed. The XMMS plugin now works correctly on big endian machines. There’s a new Windows Explorer extension which displays metadata (title, author, year, duration, mono/stereo, number of subsongs, PAL/NTSC) and on Windows Vista/7 can edit them. A simple player in C# has been created.

ASAP2WAV has been replaced with asapconv which can additionally convert native modules to and from the SAP format, edit SAP tags and write MP3 files using LAME. A plugin for XMPlay has been created. The foobar2000 plugin has been updated to foobar2000 1.0. Time detection of RMT files has been fixed. PLAYER tag is now optional for TYPE D SAP files. "File Information" window now includes a better validation. Windows Media Player’s "Open" now includes ASAP file types. WASAP has a progress bar for writing WAV files. Flash player uses DEFSONG. Source code has been improved and moved from CVS to Git repository.

Windows setup has been created. ASAP has been ported to Flash Player and experimentally to JavaScript. New input formats: DLT, CMS and CM3 are supported. GTIA sound and COVOX are emulated. WASAP now includes "Save as WAV". JavaScript interface of the Java applet has been changed. There were huge changes in the build process: on Unix/Linux it no longer uses the "configure" script and on Windows it uses MinGW for almost all binaries (they are smaller than Visual C++ 2008’s, compatible with Windows 9x, wildcards work in ASAP2WAV).

XBMC plugin and POKEY emulation DLL for RMT have been created. The midlet has a progress bar, tags display, subsong selection and better performance. SKCTL emulation has been slightly improved. Documentation has been converted from plain text to HTML.

Plugins for Windows Media Player and Apollo have been created. RMT duration detection has been improved. A bug in TMC to SAP conversion has been fixed. ASAP can be compiled as C#.

All formats supported by ASAP can be converted to and from the SAP format, using the file information window of WASAP or the Winamp plugin. Unlike SAP Maker, ASAP supports subsongs and TIME tags. POKEY emulation has improved a little. Bugs in the XMMS plugin, the foobar2000 plugin and the applet have been fixed.

TIME tags can be edited in the file information window of WASAP and the Winamp plugin. A few emulation bugs have been fixed. Some user interface issues in WASAP have been fixed.

Plugin for MOC (Music On Console) has been created. WASAP, Winamp plugin and foobar2000 plugin can edit AUTHOR, NAME and DATE tags in SAP files. Winamp and XMMS plugins format titles as specified by the player. TMC files are now played in stereo. A few minor bugs have been fixed.

This release introduces completely new 6502 and POKEY emulation. SAP files with samples are supported. ASAP can be compiled as Java - an applet and an experimental midlet have been created. Winamp, foobar2000 and GSPlayer plugins support silence detection and muting selected POKEY channels. Winamp plugin supports subsongs and Winamp’s equalizer.

This release adds support for AUTHOR, NAME, DATE and TIME tags in SAP files. Winamp, foobar2000 and the new GSPlayer plugin have configurable playback time for songs with no TIME tag and songs marked with LOOP. foobar2000 plugin has been updated for version 0.9 of foobar2000. XMMS plugin supports the TM8 extension.

This release supports TM2 (Theta Music Composer 2.x) file format. Compilation and installation on Unix-like systems have been improved. foobar2000 plugin supports subsongs.

This release supports stereo and 16-bit audio output (enabled by default). Compressed SAP files (for example Fractals.sap) are played correctly. Subsongs are supported in RMT files. There are new plugins: for XMMS and for foobar2000 version 0.8. WASAP supports Windows Explorer’s "Open with".

This is the initial release of ASAP (Another Slight Atari Player) - a player/converter of 8-bit Atari music for modern computers. ASAP provides high-quality, identical to the popular Atari800 emulator, emulation of the POKEY sound chip and the 6502 processor.

Creator and main developer.

6502 and POKEY emulation used in 0.x.y versions of ASAP.

Testing.

CMC routine modified for the CM3 format.

Porting to C#.

6502 routine for playing DLT.

Ideas.

FC format support.

6502 routines for playing CMC, MPT, TMC and TM2.

Guided development of XMPlay and BASS plugins.

COVOX information and test files. Testing. Porting to D.

POKEY reverse-engineering.

Windows CE testing.

Suggested CMS, CM3, DLT and STIL format support.

Windows Mobile setup. Thorough testing.

6502 routine for playing CMS.

6502 routine for playing RMT. Testing.

Windows icons. Testing.

Windows setup graphics.

Testing.

XBMC plugin testing.