> Aley Keprt wrote: > > > > [...] > > I don't know AZX. How you can use it? For AY data, or SAA data. If you would > > like to use it for SAA data, there's no reason of using it. AZX is not for > > Sam. > > Really ? Why ? You've just told you do not know what is AZX, didn't you ?
Yea, but I'm not completely stupid and can figure what AZX could be supposed for. > Sure, AZX files are LARGE compared against AY files, but what can stop you > from developing your own custom blocks format especially for Sam ? Just do > not forget to follow rules from basic AZX format specifications. I'm affraid somebody like you come tomorrow and bring .DOC (from MS Word) file format with some extra chunks for Sam screen shots. Yes, it will work, but wasn't .DOC meant for Word documents? Wasn't AZX meant for something like AudioZXspectrum? There's absolutely no reason for strictly following AZX specs. The only think you definitely do is that users won't be able to simply distinguish between Sam and ZXS music files and many of them will be confused because their player will say: "This file's unknown format." Is this what you really want? [ If you would take zx48k snapshot file format and enhance it for zx128k, it's clever and straightforward idea. But please don't enhance it more to meet Sam. It's compeltely different. ] > > [...] > > It is like asking whether it is better to have your MOD, S3M, IT, XM files > > as they are, or to convert them to MP3. Is this conversion needed? I don't > > think so. > > This is just one side of question. I've got slightly different opinion. But > in ANY case we need a special portable player for SAM tunes for the format > we choose. Special portable? If SimCoupe will be portable, I bet for a derivative work of it. Current SamPlay could be also considered, but it uses Z80 CPU emulator which can't handle samples, because it lacks any machine cycles counting. (But it is still good for 99.9% of music.) SamPlay uses only text mode user interface, so it could be possibly ported. But I haven't seen anybody who would be interested in it. I have mede versions for DOS (DJGPP) and Win32 (VC6). Aley
