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Posted By

Charlemagne
on 2019-08-18
03:27:47

D64 Navigator - a new experimental feature of LUMYDCTT

Hi All Commodore Plus/4 Enthusiastics,

I start to develop a very new feature of LUMYDCTT called: "D64 Navigator", yes after the well-known "DOS Navigator". This capability is in the egg and there is a lot of work to get the perfect end, BUT you can use some interest function, right now...

...I have found some strange things while hunting treasures, as you can see one of the pictures above, eg. "compy_xmas.d64": it doesn't follow the standard path of D64-format like "Dos Version Type" (so it is write protect), "free sectors on tracks" (so the funny guys (who made it in former times) like the very individual solutions: write over the unused bytes of BAM), etc. (LUMYDCTT hasn't shown the contents of it, yet.)

Why did I publish it if it is in experimental?

- I found a pair of hard-core bugs and fixed it. (eg.: variables didn't work in assembly, maybe when I implemented a new feature, I didn't recognize that the syntax went wrong anywhere else)

- MMS mentioned at the Arok Party that he didn't publish his music composed by "ZackZack" because of LUMYDCTT doesn't write a music player instead of him...

...but LUMYDCTT does!

- see more details in the "whatsnew.txt"-file!

Keep smiling and have a nice navigation.

Posted By

MMS
on 2019-08-18
03:56:16

Re: D64 Navigator - a new experimental feature of LUMYDCTT

Thanks for the clarification! So it mean I need to make a release.

(what I found in your tool: it can play it back, can export it to XML, or converts to DATA lines.
Anyhow, in the last weks I investigated some player routines too, so I am not completely lost)

Posted By

Charlemagne
on 2019-09-02
14:33:26

Re: D64 Navigator - a new experimental feature of LUMYDCTT

MMS: the creation of DATA lines is not perfect (some values don't appear in DATAs {maybe 0s}), but if you click on that button, you can see a little bit more, than DATA lines. The BASIC sound player isn't also perfect, so it needs your creativity...

Well, I (and a lot of us) am (are) very curious about your musician's sense...

PS: you can export your music to WAV, too! (Save as... file type...)

[UPDATED: 2019.08.26]
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