czPlayer

Here I am again.
Almost 2 months and here it is a new version.
No new fancy features or big changes. Basically, I’ve just added support for loading WAV files encoded with ADPCM (IMA and Microsoft ADPCM supported).

I’ve been so quiet for a reason…
Last 2 months I’ve been looking for a new position in the games industry, and finally got one in Scotland-Dundee.

You can download the new version here :
Download lastest czPlayer demo

I’ve been working hard on czPlayer, and here is the result. Version 0.2.0 released.
The API is mostly incompatible with the previous 0.1.1 version.
I’ve made a lot of changes to this version and added some new features, so I decided to jump the version number to 0.2.0.
All the internal refactoring I’ve made will hopefully allow me to add some new features I have in mind, like DSP effects (both internal and user provided) .
Needless to say, I’m not particularly confident about the stability of this version, with all the changes I’ve made. Some functions were not even tested yet. But like I said in earlier posts, there is always something to fix or improve, so I better release and work from there, than to keep fixing/improving stuff and never release.
I have so many crazy ideas for features! But most of them will not be implemented, because of the targeted platforms.
Codesize and performance have priority, not features… well… at least for czPlayer.
That leads me to another thing I’ve been thinking about…
Maybe I’ll eventually fork czPlayer into Mobile and Non-Mobile versions, so that I can go wild on all the things I want to implement. Hehe
Most of what I dislike in czPlayer (both internal, and in the external API), are a direct consequence of the compromises I had to make to support the targeted platforms, and have the same API for all of them.
Nuff said… You’ve got to ask yourself one question: “Do I feel lucky? Well, do you, punk ?

If so, go ahead, download the new version and give it a try:
Download lastest czPlayer demo.

New release of czPlayer.
Just a few bug fixes in the internal mixer, and minor changes in the documentation.
Those bugs were particular hard to find and fix. They appeared mostly for short looped sounds, like those commonly used in chiptunes, causing some distortion or high pitch. I was making some wrong calculations for looped sounds, which caused 1 or 2 sound frames to be skipped for each sound. For big samples, you can’t hear the difference, but for very short samples, especially looped, just 1 or 2 wrong frames can mess up the final mix, since they represent a significant part of the affected samples.
I have a lot of changes planned, but  I’m waiting for a client to  finish  his game before I go wild on the code! hehe

Download lastest czPlayer demo.