RoboPlay - Multi format music player in Fusion-C

Paladin (927)

24-03-2019, 13:09

While working on RoboSOP the idea came already to make a player supporting multiple formats. This video shows some first test runs with RoboPlay on OPL4.

RoboPlay consists of a generic framework (providing disk access, memory allocation, timing, etc..) and a number of dedicated format players. The players all implement the same interface towards RoboPlay.
Based on the type of music file a player is loaded first, after that using the player the song is loaded and replayed. Currently i have 3 players working now (for D00, SOP and DRO files), this is now easily extendable.

In this early version the player still needs to be provided as a command line argument, something i want to automate later on. Also subsongs need still some better support.

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By Giangiacomo Zaffini 2

Champion (300)

24-03-2019, 14:16

I easily welcome this fantastic project. Keep on rolling!

By ericb59

Paragon (1126)

24-03-2019, 19:44

Great ! Better and better :-)

By Pac

Scribe (7117)

26-03-2019, 02:30

Let me ask. Could you please explain it a bit more? Can we expect a multiplayer for the existing MSX music file formats and soundchips as well? MBM, MWM, TMU, etc. If so, do you plan to include the Japanese file formats such as MGS, BGM, OPX, MPK, etc too?

By ToriHino

Paladin (927)

26-03-2019, 07:12

I would indeed want to add MSX file formats as well. My intention is also to publish the source code and interface, making it possible for others as well to add new players.

By Parn

Paladin (854)

26-03-2019, 17:50

XM is on my wishlist. I always wanted to play my XM files on MSX.

By Pac

Scribe (7117)

27-03-2019, 10:08

ToriHino wrote:

I would indeed want to add MSX file formats as well. My intention is also to publish the source code and interface, making it possible for others as well to add new players.

That's great.

By ToriHino

Paladin (927)

04-06-2019, 19:54

I submitted current version, together with a collection of tunes in various formats, to the download database, see here. A link to the source code is included there as well.

By Giangiacomo Zaffini 2

Champion (300)

04-06-2019, 23:11

Ok! I tested current version on openMSX because I don't have real hardware on my side and it is super cool!
Congratulations!
I advice You to try very very hard and add replay of Masahiro Kajihara'a PMDIBM drive (OPL2 PMD for PMDIBM, where for PC-88 and PC-98 machines PMD drives OPN/OPNA chips).

By ToriHino

Paladin (927)

05-06-2019, 07:19

Ok thanks, i'll see what i can find about that.

By ToriHino

Paladin (927)

28-11-2019, 00:27

I added a first version of a VGM player plug-in to RoboPlay. Here a video showing it in action.

Currently it plays OPL (and MSX-AUDIO), OPL2, OPL3 and OPL4 VGM files. Still in a very early stage so you're still far better of using Grauw's VGMPlay :-)

The good news is that the player itself, although written in C is still under 2KB.

Currently supported formats: DRO, RAW, D00, SOP and VGM