MockAnt

Can you post images of these (the forum software requires you to zip them first and post the zip files, BTW), or do you have URLs where they can be downloaded? AMS Synthesizer is at NitroRoms Advanced MusicSystem and half the old APX catalog are available at AtariArchives.org , with AMS being Right Here

Because I don't want to put my ams into .atr format pseudo disks, I dont want to pull bits and pieces from existing .atr files over and over to make what I want. I want to be able to load .AMS from a pc filepath, adding new ones anytime I want instead and being able to easily move add or subtract them when I want to. That is what the emulator H: drive is supposed to be all about, but no AMS player I have found yet will recognize it. Surely there must be ONE ams player that will work with H: , or a different emulator that will set a pc drive path as one of the D: or SOMETHING. Miker- Thanks. I looked into the .sap thing a few days ago. I want to keep my real atari files in real atari format though. Urchlay- that totally worked (hex instead of numeric). Now I can turn the screen off on the programs that wont play my AMS from H:, heh. If no other ideas come along soon I may see if I can change D: to H: in one of the players manually. After running BBSes my favorite thing in the old days was working on AMS writing.

Which OS are those memory locations for? c 329 44 isn't doing anything for me applied before a load or after. All the AMS programs still are sticking to what was on their .atr and nothing else. I tried a c 559 0 to see if maybe nothing is actually going on when i change memory, and nothing happened- shouldnt the screen have blanked out?

Hey that is some pretty slick kludgery, Thanks. Neither trick worked on any of the ams players I have though. I still get the contents of the old D1: instead of what is on H1:

thanks for the replies Charlie, Rybags, and Metalguy. One of the main points I am after is to be able to read AMS music into a emulator on pc without putting my files into .atr image format. To do this I need a atari ams player that will load from the emulator H1: hard disk instead of just the choice of D1-D8 emulated drives. I am hoping someone would know a ams program that can do that, or a emulator that can assign one of the D1:D8: drives to be a pc file path instead of a virtual atari disk, or perhaps some different solution that does not involve creating new .atr files.

I don't want to put my .ams files into .atr or any other simulated format, I want them free in a directory where I can easily add and change. How do I make a .atr from dos anyhow? The programs I have tried so far: 1. play.com "themusic player" by dan knauf I cant get this to load anything from anywhere, it is supposed to load ams from any drive 1 to 8. 2. amp.exe and amp2.exe both give error 130 and won't recognize any drive anywhere. 3. ams show disks 1 - 51. plays ams prearranged disks but only from D1: nowhere else 4. Advanced MusicSystem 1982 by Lee Actor This only loads AMS from D1: 5. Advanced Music Sys "music player" s.p.a.c.e. version 2.2 only loads AMS from d1:-d4: or d8: as a ramdisk 6. AMS Synthesizer 2.3 only plays its AMS in its own .atr ever I'd also like to find some pokey player tunes, and non-.atr'ed .amp songs. I think pokey player might be the one I remember being so good back in the day but almost entirely circulating from one BBS The super ultimate goal is having a AMS player that will load my AMS from any pc path I tell it to, with a cherry on top bonus if that program can also edit/compose/save to my pc path.

The problem is finding a old atari program that will use a emulated harddrive to load a .ams that is not in a .atr archive on a emulated drive. All the old atari programs, including advanced music system, seem to be hardcoded to only load music from simulated D: .atr drives, which disallows me from being able to load a standalone .ams file. I tried atari800win plus, using its H: drive emulator but no atari ams player that I could find would use it. I'm thinking what I really need is a emulator that lets you set a D: drive to be a real path on the pc system, or to find a AMS player that will allow loading .ams from the H: simulated drive. I'm all for whatever gets my AMS files working on the pc without having to put them into a .atr

I really want to listen to some ams files I have on the pc, but I cant find any emulated players that will allow loading because they are not in the same .atr file. Using atari800 plus none of the programs want to let me load ams from the emulated HD or I would do it that way. Is there a program or method that will let me do this without having to repack my ams files into .atr? Thanks- MockAnt I also remember after the 8bit lost most of its popularity there was another similar music program that played them and sounded much better, something involving attack and decay of notes or somesuch. Any one have a idea what that was? I know the author sold large collections of music for it whatever it was.