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What can you await in v0.6?

( means this is already implemented)
 The official Pulse homepage
 AMS loader (Velvet studio/Extreme tracker)
 RTM loader (Real Tracker)
 IT compressed loader (Impulse Tracker 2.14)
 MP3 loader
 WAV loader
 MMCMP-depacker (need to be rewritten from 16 bits - will take some time)
 Changing sound properties (Stereo, Interpolation, Mixing frequency etc.)
  during playback
 Reverb editor (with load/save preset)
 Stereo separation control
 Panning control
 MMX support - really fast mixing routines!
 Amplify and Auto gain control
 Archive support (ACE, ARJ, RAR, ZIP)
 Quick paths (fast access to your favorite directories)
 Selectable display refresh rate
 16 color BMP and RLE compression support in design compiler - smaller design
  size!
 Thousands of bugfixes ;)
 Design schemes (more modifications of 1 design in 1 file)
 New great and useable design! (not like the chocolate one :)

We're preparing an ultimate design for Pulse, that will use ALL of its
features. It'll be a part of the player and will be placed in file 'pulse.des'.
It should be finished soon, so maybe it'll be included in 0.60 too.

When will be 0.60 released?

We're working intensively on it, so 0.6 should be finished during May 1998.
Get ready for killing the adversaries of The Pulse Player!!!


And now some info about 1.0!

Version 1.0 of The Pulse should be done during summer holidays 1998.

Awaited features:

 Playing a number of MODs, WAVs and MP3s at once - depending to your
  computer speed
 WinAMP visualisation plugins and maybe the DSP plugins support
 Pulse plugins - better than WinAMP's ones
 IT resonant filters!!! (Impulse Tracker 2.14patch#3)
 FM tunes support (RAD, S3M)
 CD player
 MID player
 C64 SID player based on SidPlay's engine (Yeeeeah!)
 SB AWE32/64, GUS PnP and Terratec Maestro32/EWS64 hardware mixing (hardware
  reverbs are self-evident). To support more harware mixing soundcards we need
  the soundboards for testing and bugfixing.
 K6-3D support - if the instructions will be useable for anything (already
  have the docs)
 A really comfortable WYSIWYG design editor (with Delphi-like environment) -
  we're starting to code it just now, so it should be finished somewhere around
  v0.70 - before summer holidays!
 User definable oscilliscope/VU-meter/spectrum analyzer (define color, number
  of bands, linear/exponential table, texture in/under the bars, refresh rate),
  all MMX optimized
 User definable equalizer (number of bands, non-windows sliders, flexible like
  design files)
 User definable Open and Playlist dialog
 ...and much more - just tell us your ideas, nothing is impossible with fast
  enough CPU (got a dual PII/400? ;) !

Next, we'd like to support Rebirth 338 and AXS synth tunes, but it would need
VERY exact documentation about these formats, including sound-filtering
algorithm sources. But it's probably impossible to find... :(


                       Are you ready for that all?!?

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