FCWIN
			AMIGA Futur-Composer Player
		v1.0 Written by Arnaud Carre (Leonard/OXYGENE)


INDEX:

	1) What's FcWin ?
	2) Cardware Registration.
	3) What's New ??
	4) Package List.
	5) Technical Stuff...
	6) Problems ?
	7) The Futur...
	8) Credits, Greetings and Thanks !
	9) Contacting the Author.




1) What's FcWin ?

	FcWin is an AMIGA Futur Composer music player for Windows 95/NT. Futur
Composer is an AMIGA music format used before the today famous "soundtracker
module". There is many old games tunes written in that format, so the Music
lovers can enjoy their favorit tunes !!



2) Cardware Registration.

	FCWin is  "cardware". That  means, if  you like  this program  you are
strongly  encouraged  to  become  a registered  user  by sending a nice il-
lustrated  postcard  to  me.   This  helps  me getting  motivated  in program-
ming upgrades and further productions.
	Please DON'T send  letters or  emails  as  a  substitute  for  a real
postcard !!

	If you have any  comments, bug reports, help  or criticism feel free
to contact me. You will find my address at the bottom of this text file.



3) What's New ??

	v1.0: First release of FCWIN. The COMPLETE emulator was written in a
week, so there is still many bugs in that version... Wait for the second...



4) Package List

	Original File List:
	
	FCWIN.EXE	Windows 95/NT Executable.
	FCWIN.DOC	FcWin Documentation. (WinWord format.)
	FCWIN.TXT	FcWin Documentation (ASCCI format)
	FILE_ID.DIZ	BBS Advert.
	FCMODS\*.FC4	Some public-Domain FC module.



5) Technical Stuff...

	The Futur Composer is an AMIGA format. That is, the replay rout works
very closely with the AMIGA SoundChip hardware. (The chip is called PAULA).
FcWin emulatate PAULA (4 digi-voices, volume and frequency variation). The
Play-Routine was originally written in Motorola MC68000 and converted by me
in C language.



6) Problems ?

	Q: when I run "FCWIN.EXE" it says: "This program requires Microsoft
Windows".

	A: He he, sorry but MsDos glory is finished... That is, you must hear
your favorite tunes under Windows 95 ! If you are a DOS fan, just know it
exist a FC player under MSDOS written by Ben/Overlanders. (FCPLAY.EXE, I
think...)


	Q: when I run FCWIN, a dialog box tell me "WaveOut Device Already In
Use" ?

	A: FcWin use standart Windows WaveOut Device to play digitized sound.
Unfortunatly Windows does not share Sound Device so if you have already a
program playing sound you can't run FCWIN. (Ex if you are using the great
STSOUND !)



7) The Futur...

	First of all I must remove some bugs playing some modules. Second,that
version only replay Futur Composer v1.4 module. Soon I'll add a 1.3 play rou-
tine.

	Before writing FCWIN I have done a little FC player on the ATARI ST.
Now Mr Bee/Overlanders is working on it (Add user Interface, Optimizing for
ATARI-TT or Falcon). Contact me if you are interrested...

	By the way, If you are interested by Old music, just know I have writ-
ten a ATARI-ST soundchip emulator who can play ATARI tunes (MadMax, Count Zero,
AnCool etc...). Contact me if you are interested...



8) Credits, Greetings and Thanks !

Many thanks to all these people to help me in various way:

	- Ben/Overlanders to give me original Amiga Play-routine.
	- Mr Bee for the TT and FALCON porting.
	- Adam Lorentzon to be so cool and for Windows Sound System programming
help.

Flying Regards to:

	- Oxygene Members. (Lester, Mon, Nap, Oxbab, Spiral, Sun Stark)
	- Dogue de Mauve (Are you still alive ??)
	- Ziggy Stardust (So strange coder...)
	- Claudius (Soon a little Claudio...)
	- Mr Bee. (Perhaps the only one who's reading...)
	- Ramone (Manu) "Ho, ou o you're in the army now..."
	- Bozo (Don't put Weapon in your house...)
	- BigFoot (What are you doing ?)
	- Niko.
	- Xantia (Waiting anxiously a Peace day with Radiospare !!)
	- Zappy. (No more ST ?)
	- Griffon
	- Aeon (PAULA Specialist ! Hi all members of AURA !)
	- Guillaume (GG). (I'm waiting for AMSTRAD YM music !!)
	- Ben and Jess.

	

9) Contacting the Author.

	Internet E-Mail:

		acarre%siam@cal.fr

	Standart mail:

		Arnaud Carre
		22 rue Jean Mermoz
		91700 Ste Genevieve des Bois
		FRANCE.

	French "Minitel":

	3615 RTEL, bal "LEONHARD" (With a "H")



Have a nice day !