ASAP is a player of 8-bit Atari 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 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 XBMC
plugin for XMMS
DirectShow source filter (for Windows Media Player)
POKEY sound emulation DLL for Raster Music Tracker
Java version of ASAP2WAV
Java applet (see online demo)
Java midlet
C# version of ASAP2WAV
ASAP supports the following file formats (determined by the filename extension):
Format designed for playing 8-bit Atari music on modern computers. All other formats can be converted to SAP. Atari SAP Music Archive (ASMA) is a single big collection of SAP files.
Atari music editor from early 1990s.
CMC with modified bass sounds.
CMC with 6502 routine executed at double rate of the original CMC.
Atari music editor from 1990s.
MPT with 6502 routine executed at double rate of the original MPT.
Modern Atari music editor running on Windows.
Atari music editor from late 1990s. The two file extensions are treated identically and played in stereo. TM8 means it’s a stereo (8-channel) music while TMC can be either mono or stereo.
Modern Atari music editor.
If you are interested in the ASAP project, please subscribe its mailing list. This list is for users and developers. Once you subscribe, you can post comments, ideas and questions about ASAP. They will be answered ASAP. ;-)
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