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Mike Caron · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 5:07 pm Post subject: It's BAMtastic!

http://finalfantasyq.com/ohrfb/playbam.zip

As some of you may know, I'm managing the OHRFB project, which is a re-write of the OHRRPGCE in FreeBasic.

Well, a section of this involves playing BAM music in Windows. To test out a method of playing BAMs in Windows, I decided to re-write the ever-familiar Playbam.exe. It's also a demonstration, of sorts.

Try it out, and realize that BAM music doesn't have to suck. Playbam translates BAM to MIDI on the fly, and plays it, so it uses wavetable sounds instead of the FM tones we're used to.

If you have any problems, questions, whatever, just ask me. Oh, and BTW, don't run it straight from the ZIP. It needs gm.ibk. Well, it'll run without it, but it will play every note as a piano.
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JSH357 · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 1705

Doesn't work for me. The window closes immediately.

Mike Caron · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 5:20 pm Post subject:

It's a console program. It works exactly the same as the original Playbam.exe:

~ Open the command prompt (Start->Run..., type in "command" in Win9x or "cmd" in Win NT+)
~ type in "cd wherever you extracted it to" and press enter
~ type in "playbam insert path to BAM file"

Edit: I forgot, you can also drag BAM files onto it to get the same effect.
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JSH357 · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 1705

ew

edit: Dragging is what I had been trying. No dice.

Mike Caron · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 5:25 pm Post subject:

Well, try the command prompt way, and tell me the error it spits out.
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Ysoft_Entertainment · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 3:52 pm Post subject:

I was thinking of writing bam player in vb, but never got to it. I thought it would be great to play bams in windows environment, I was also going to use directsound. Oh well, good job dawg, is the sourcecode available for this great software?
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Mike Caron · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 6:45 pm Post subject:

Not yet. It is (or, will be) in the source repository for OHRFB. However, it's closed source until I get it to work perfectly. I found that a couple bams don't loop when they're done playing, and I want to fix that.

Plus, I had a great idea to improve the speed and timing of the music. I won't go into detail, but it'll be quite ingenious, if I say so myself (which I do).

And, the source will be GPL'd when I'm ready to release it.
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