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What player do i need to listen to these Original Amiga tunes ?
I downloaded one & it's an LHA File . What's LHA ????
You see i'm usless when it comes to PC's and all this computer jargon stuff !!

Glyn R Brown wrote:What player do i need to listen to these Original Amiga tunes ?

Go to http://www.deliplayer.com and you've got what you need.
Deliplayer is the successor of the famous amiga Delitracker, and can play *every* amiga tune ever made.

Glyn R Brown wrote: I downloaded one & it's an LHA File . What's LHA ????
You see i'm usless when it comes to PC's and all this computer jargon stuff !!

LHA is a compression alghorythm very popular on Amiga, directly derived from Huffman's LZH.

You can unpack lha archives without probz with WinRar.

Cheers.

Thanks DHS , Appreciate the help Buddy

DHS > Can this Deliplayer convert the tunes to WAV ??
Just like to know before i try it out

DHS wrote:LHA is a compression alghorythm very popular on Amiga, directly derived from Huffman's LZH.

More correctly put, LZH is the acronym for Lempel/Ziv/Huffman, a compression code by Lempel/Ziv which adds Huffman encoding. Whether LHA always used LZH algorithm instead of LZSS (Lempel/Ziv/Storer/Szymanski), is beyond my memory.

and to be more obtuse, blinking well bafling!!!

quote taken from the original version of tubular bells

Anonymous wrote:DHS > Can this Deliplayer convert the tunes to WAV ??
Just like to know before i try it out

If you register it, it can make a wav-file for you. Another trick is ofcourse setting the output device to a digital-only device on your soundcard and record the digital device then
Oh, and just noticed, wrong thread here...

Actually, I reckon Deliplayer's pretty disappointing in the playback stakes. That is, it doesn't play back quite a few popular formats like MC (Mark Cooksey), MCO (Mark Cooksey Old), DL (Dave Lowe) etc etc...

I wish there would be a player like Eagle Player on Amiga. Eagle Player is more or less "plug-in based", where each format has it's own player, and as far as I know each plug-in can be modified and improved by anyone (dunno if that's true though, that's just the way I've come to see things and is not based on facts).

Delitracker on the Amiga is (was?) also plug-in based. Individual files with players for different formats.

If I've understood correctly so is the PC's "Deliplayer".

Deliplayer isn´t so bad? It plays Amiga-classics like Pinball Dreams and Pinball Illusions flawlessly, even TFMX from Hülsbeck, MED Soundstudio in all versions. And dozens of other strange formats.

Yeah, but Makke's right - it's not as good as Eagleplayer in regard to how many formats it plays. Delitracker was the same - nicer looking than Eagleplayer, and a great piece of software, but not quite as good. I've got a large zipfile full of game/demo songs from my old 1200 and I can't play them in Deliplayer. Don't get me wrong, it IS a fine piece of software, it's just a shame that a few well known game-mus formats aren't supported. I thought with Deliplayer 2 they would be, but alas, no...

It should be worth mentioning that you can extra eagleplayer players into the 'players' directory of deliplayer.

not all of them work, but you can get in a few extra formats.

Glyn R Brown wrote:What player do i need to listen to these Original Amiga tunes ?
I downloaded one & it's an LHA File . What's LHA ????
You see i'm usless when it comes to PC's and all this computer jargon stuff !!

Thanks Glyn!!!!!!


We are in the same boat with regards to ".lha" or whatever!!

At least I know your not a techno freak!!

I got my info from DHS however,so thanks DHS from me and Glyn!!!!

M.A.F., I thought you owned an Amiga?
Everybody I knew in the Amiga time had these two buttons configured in Directory Opus:
"LHA unpack" and "LZX unpack" :^)