![[ATARI] Nowy pakiet SNDH 3.4](www/picphoto/2f9e63881.jpg)
Można już pobrać nowe archiwum SNDH zawierające około 6580 utworów powstałych na ATARI ST w formacie .snd lub przekonwertowanych do tego formatu. Nowa wersja zawiera trochę ponad 50 utworów jakie powstały w ciągu ostatnich 10 miesięcy, a także poprawiono parę błędów, które wkradły się we wcześniejszych wersjach biblioteki.
Format .snd jest odtwarzany przez DeliPlayer, MicroST, AudioOverload i dzięki wtyczkom do WinAmpa - narzędzie i playery można pobrać ze strony projektu, a także pliki z krótkimi nazwami (8+3).
Ever since the birth of the Atari ST, different chip music formats have had different ways to use them. If you are coding a chip music player for the Atari ST you would have to use dozens and dozens of special ways to replay music.
But in the mid 90's, BDC of Aura crew became tired of this inelegant system and decided to fix the issue once and for all. He then created the 'SNDH' file format. SNDH is actually the original songfile and replaycode with a header bolted on top of the music and replayer. The header has a unified calling interface no matter what type of chip music is hidden beneath it, and it has extended datas about the music.
Creating the SNDH files
Once the SNDH header structure was done, he was left with coding a player and converting songs into the SNDH format. BDC created a simple text player and started to work on the SNDH-files themself. Back in these days, things were still very much coded the "hardcore way" with no respect to multitasking or even a clean exit from the player - a reboot for each song was within the acceptable levels.