ASAP - Another Slight Atari Player
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ASAP is a player of Atari 8-bit music for modern computers.
It emulates the POKEY sound chip and the 6502 processor.
The project was initially based on the routines from the Atari800 emulator,
but the current version has a completely new original emulation core.

The ASAP project includes the following programs:
* ASAP2WAV - portable command-line utility that generates WAV files
* WASAP - tiny player for Windows
* plugin for Apollo
* plugin for foobar2000 0.9
* plugin for GSPlayer
* plugin for MOC
* plugin for Winamp
* plugin for XMMS
* DirectShow source filter (for Windows Media Player)
* Java version of ASAP2WAV
* Java applet
* Java midlet
* C# version of ASAP2WAV

The following input formats are supported:
* SAP (Slight Atari Player - standard file format for playing Atari 8-bit
  music on modern computers)
* CMC (Chaos Music Composer)
* CMR (CMC Rzog)
* DMC (DoublePlay CMC)
* MPT (Music ProTracker)
* MPD (MPT DoublePlay)
* RMT (Raster Music Tracker)
* TMC, TM8 (Theta Music Composer 1.x)
* TM2 (Theta Music Composer 2.x)

If you are looking for Atari 8-bit music, there is a single big collection
of it called Atari SAP Music Archive (http://asma.atari.org).

If you are interested in the ASAP project, please subscribe its mailing list:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/asap-users
As in the Atari800 project, this is a combined list for end users
and for developers. Once you subscribe, you can post comments, ideas
and questions about ASAP. They will be answered ASAP. ;-)

If, for some reason, you do not want to subscribe the mailing list,
but have a bug report, feature request or a small code patch, you can use
the sf.net tracker. Use "Bugs", "Feature Requests" or "Patches" link
on this page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/asap/

ASAP is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License,
or (at your option) any later version.

ASAP is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty
of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
See the included GNU General Public License for more details.
