kramlib v.1.0 december launch

Sounds great

Maybe it's time to add some REAL music to CrazyBus and PLACAMASTER

Oh, wait - i need to learn how to compose music first!

Anyway, i will keep an eye on this... BEX is nice and all, but needs some cool libraries (like we did in the ol' VB6 ages: can't code something? Grab an ActiveX control and you're done).

cool, a nice sound driver is good

i don't remember which driver i got working on real hardware on BEX, i think it was shiru's (i don't remeber the name). it had a pretty cool tracker too, which also used the mame ym2612 module to play sounds while editing. but anyways, if you can't get the thing to work on real hardware, i could aid in getting it to work (99% of the time, i've seen coders write wrong stuff to the z80 control registers on the 68k side, so watch for that )

www.filefactory.com/file/a1f3982/n/kramlib_setup.exe

here we have the release I promised. Enjoy!

includes demo program and source code.
note: tfm music maker voices work with xm4smps which puts your xm (protracker II) module in sonic1 format and you can use music pointer fixer to convert to the format used in kramlib (select sonic1 to sonic3/k). retro's (sonic retro) guide can provide info on the pointers for songs. assume kramlib = sonic3.

Nice
I'm going to test this asap. (app 2 weeks)

Nemesis compression, eh? Surely i NEED that... time to put my ROMs on diet.

God, i need to research more! Anyway, a couple of ASM lines for playing SFX/BGM are pretty easy to deal with.

(sigh) maybe the installer put everything in the wrong place
kramlib.s needs to be in (location of basiegaxoz)\slibrary and so does the data folder with sine data and angle data.

I will maybe put 1.1 in a zip instead of an installer.

also SMPS Themes folder countains the music data and theme.s which defines the music data itself that folder too needs to be in the compiler's folder as well.


Sorry for such strict and manditory things, but this needs to be in that location due to limitations of the compiler.
NemDec - nemesis decompression to vram, a0 = data label of compressed graphics. vdp register needs to be set to vram write at tile location as 16-bit vram address. format compresses art very efficiently.
EniDec - enigma compression to ram, a0 = source, a1 = destination, d0 = offset in data location. you can shuffle your data to where it fits best or expand it directly to where you need it. usually a 0 offset is sufficient. format compresses screen mappings very efficiently.
KosDec - kosinski decompression to ram. This is very easy to use. a0 = source, a1 = destination. very flexable compression and not as speciallized as the others. you can compress virtually anything with this. Sonic games usually use this for 128x128 block mappings and sonic 1 uses it for the equivilent (256x256 block mappings)
LoadSoundSystem - call this at the beginning of your program. it loads the smps-z80 core no parameters are needed. just call it by itself.
PlayMusic - literally that. d0 = index (byte type). look inside theme.s to see what is on the index. values range from 0x01 and 0x32.
PlaySE - literally that. plays a sound effect. uses a very similar parameter to that of PlayMusic, just ranges from 0x33 and 0xDF. 0xE0 stops music abruptly. 0xE1 causes music to fade out. 0xFF plays "SEGA!" pcm file which is simply a raw wav-pcm without header.
ChangeTempo - checks d0 for either a 0x08 byte or a 0x00 byte to determine if the music is supposed to speed up or slow down.
kramlib.s - contains all kramlib subroutines and functions including all the ones listed above. all those errors are due to the library being improperly installed.
theme.s - contains music symbol defines such as for the UVB, drumkits, sega pcm, music data, and sound effects. if that was the only missing include the errors would be different.