Re: MOD player comparisons

[taob@r-node.hub.org (Brian Tao)]

In article <2BC7CCC7.16679@news.service.uci.edu>, Andre Prellwitz writes...
> 
> Cool, but why do we need GNO to do this?

    Because SP 0.5 is a shell utility (forget The Manager or SwitchIt)
and ORCA can't place processes in the background.  That leaves GNO.  :) 
Perhaps a future version will remove the restriction, but for now, you
need GNO for background playing.

> Try going to the CDA menu while a song is playing...the music keeps on
> playing (even though the screen is no longer updated).

    In fact, I can "kill" the process table entry and quit GNO; the MOD
will continue playing.  The system seems rather unstable at this point
though, and the GS usually crashes when I launch another program.

> And, where can I ftp Tranzseven.MOD?

    Ummm... try /mirrors/amiga.physik.unizh.ch/mods at wuarchive.  There
are almost 600 MOD's in there.  I've seen a few posted as uuencode files
to alt.binaries.sounds.misc from time to time.
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