sc68 - Atari ST and Amiga music player
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                  Copyright (C) 1998-2001 Ben(jamin) Gerard

                              <ben@sashipa.com>
                      <http://sashipa.ben.free.fr/sc68>

Introduction
============

    At last here it is. The first "clean" release of sc68 for Linux and
    Other GNU system. It consists of a source distribution that trying to be
    compliant with the GNU requiments.

Install
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    This package contains many programs and libraries that will be installed
    in your system. Here is a complete list of what get installed once you
    processed the installation :

        1. sc68 - command line player
        2. as68 - a 68000 macro assembler
        3. info68 - get sc68 information (title, author ...)
        4. browse68 - Make browse info database utility (obsolete)
        5. xmms68 - an input plugin for xmms <http://www.xmms.org>
        6. sc68-install.sh - a script to install sc68 resource in user
           directory.
        7. sc68-resources-{VERSION}.tar.gz - a tarball archive containing
           sc687 resource files.
        8. A few libraries - emu68, io68, file68, sc68app, browse68
        9. man and info pages

    Here is quick installation instructions for hurry people. For more
    installation instruction read the `INSTALL' file.

        1. Get in the package top directory (which contains this file).
        2. type `sh ./configure'. Watch out eventual error messages.
        3. type `make'.
        4. Get a root shell, type `su' <enter root password>
        5. Install binary, library and data. Type `make install'.
        6. Exit root shell and go back to user. Type `exit'.
        7. Install sc68 resources files in your ~/.sc68 dir.
           Type `sh sc68-install.sh'.
        8. You're done.

    Please report any problem or successfull installation.

Music files
===========

    sc68 needs special music file, generally with a .sc68 extension. You can
    find a great collection of this musics in the sc68 website :

                     <http://sashipa.ben.free.fr/sc68>.

    You will find there almost all Atari ST musics ever done and many Amiga
    "chip" tunes from various music players.

    There is a sample music in this distribution. You can find it in your
    sc68 resource files once you have installed them (*see step 7. in
    installation instructions*) at this location :

                 `~/.sc68/Sample/Winamp - About Intro.sc68'

    If you have installled xmms68, just load this file. Else you can try to
    play it with the `play' program :

              `sc68 ~"/.sc68/Sample/Winamp - About Intro.sc68" |
                    play - -c 2 -f s -r 44100 -s w -t raw'

Documentation
=============

    Type  `info -f sc68' to browse sc68 manual. The installation process
    also install a few man pages for sc68, as68 and info68.