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Reply #100
Another update. Old versions of WavPack and the much-postponed Player section.

I'm also interested in creating a Vorbis page. I found in the most unlikely of places (my Yahoo! briafcase account that I believed to be long deleted) an Oggenc with libvorbis beta 4, dated 2000! If you have some RC versions, or even older betas, I would be very grateful if you could send them to me.

I'll add more players soon, too.

Regards;

Roberto.

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Reply #101
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I'm also interested in creating a Vorbis page. I found in the most unlikely of places (my Yahoo! briafcase account that I believed to be long deleted) an Oggenc with libvorbis beta 4, dated 2000! If you have some RC versions, or even older betas, I would be very grateful if you could send them to me.
You can download beta1 up to 1.0.1 from here: http://www.vorbis.com/files/

I think ReallyRareWares is really great, nice to see all those old stuff/formats. I remember to have a very old CD with some audio tools on it for my 486, maybe there is some nice software on it, I remember some mp2 (mp1?) files with a player on it, if I find I´ll check.

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Reply #102
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You can download beta1 up to 1.0.1 from here: http://www.vorbis.com/files/

Oh, no point in creating a Vorbis page, since old versions aren't ReallyRare at all, if you can find them at the official page :B

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I think ReallyRareWares is really great, nice to see all those old stuff/formats. I remember to have a very old CD with some audio tools on it for my 486, maybe there is some nice software on it, I remember some mp2 (mp1?) files with a player on it, if I find I´ll check.


Great. Thanks


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Reply #104
A minor, but very interesting update:

MIO (Music Interleaved and Orthogonal transformated format), a weird japanese format created for usage in games, is now featured at ReallyRareWares

The page:
http://www.rjamorim.com/rrw/mio.html

Thanks to Stefan (stg74) for providing this.

Regards;

Roberto.

Edit: User comments on MIO quality would be very welcome

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Reply #105
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lol, I remember this WinPlay3  Am I getting old? 


No, I'm still using it.

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Reply #106
Another update. Just added these goodies:

* Nullsoft DOSamp MP3 player
* Split2000 lossless codec
* FhG's layer 3 FAQ and test bitstreams
* More old versions of Blade
* Shine fixed point MP3 encoder
* Mirror of Thor's page at DalnetVQF

Enjoy them at http://www.rjamorim.com/rrw/

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Reply #107
Finally another update. This time, I uploaded several versions of l3enc (including a version even older than 1.0!!!) for several platforms.

I would also like to ask people to check if they have the very infamous Mafuka encoder. I would love to feature it on RRW, and extensive web searches were fruitless.

http://www.rjamorim.com/rrw/index.html

Thank-you very much.

Regards;

Roberto.

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Reply #108
Wow, nice collection!

If you are interested in I also could contribute Plugger v0.3 from 1998.

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Reply #109
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If you are interested in I also could contribute Plugger v0.3 from 1998.
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Of course, it's very welcome.

Thank-you very much

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Reply #110
WOW! Someone already replied to my request for Mafuka

Big thanks to Elohe for finding and providing this rarity.

I also uploaded 384kbps' Plugger (thanks!), and mppenc 1.7.9c, the last version developed by Andree Buschmann.

Regards;

Roberto.

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Reply #111
The glossary link is borked.

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Reply #112
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The glossary link is borked.
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Since always. I gotta stop procrastinating one of these days. :-/

[a href="http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=16055&view=findpost&p=188606]http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....ndpost&p=188606[/url]

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Reply #113
Rather accidentally I have found on my old PC some obsolate Lame versions:

Lame3.24B.rar
Lame3.29B.OS2-only.(25.09.1999).zip
Lame3.30.rar
Lame3.34w.rar
Lame3.35.dll.zip
Lame3.35.OS2-only.(24.10.1999).zip

But some of them only seem to be for OS2(?) and don't run at me on Win2k...
I have made a temporary Lame versions package to check them out if You like.

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Reply #114
Wow, great!

I'll upload them tomorrow.

I tried using rsx, emx and cwsdpmi on the OS2 binaries. No avail, unfortunately. :/

Thank-you very much.

Regards;

Roberto.

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Reply #115
OK, just added 384kbps' Lame versions (took me long enough!), plus some nice goodies submitted by mark0 and what is probably one of the oldest audio editors: CoolEdit 1.3.1, from 1993.

Check it out:
http://www.rjamorim.com/rrw/index.html

As usual, very big thanks to everyone submitting new goodies for RRW.

Regards;

Roberto.

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Reply #116
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...what is probably one of the oldest audio editors: CoolEdit 1.3.1, from 1993.
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<nitpick mode>
Yes, after all it came out only 15 years later than MTU's product (for the Commodore PET, I believe)
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1978

    * January - First graphics display card for a microcomputer called Visible Memory, it provided 320x200 graphic display for 6502 microcomputers to show graphic waveform audio editing.
    * December - First graphic waveform, sample precision audio editing software that used the RAM based DAW paradigm for short file editing. It used our Visible Memory graphics display card to show pixel accurate waveform display.

[a href="http://www.mtu.com/support/mtuaudioproducts.htm]MTU product history[/url]
For the PC you might be right though - there's probably something a bit earlier (possibly bundled with the Sound Blaster, 1990-ish?), but not much.
</nitpick mode>

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Reply #117
I surely have the disks of the old SB Pro around. Will check ASAP.

Bye!

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Reply #118
Say, does anyone here have a codec for DUCK DK3 or DK4 audio?
I don´t know IF there is one, as the "format" only is a variation of ADPCM, apparently, but I´d like to know for sure.

(It´d be rather old, btw, being used in games, made by the DUCK corporation, they either became or were taken over by ON2, I think.)
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.  -Isaac Asimov

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Reply #119
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Rather accidentally I have found
on my old PC some obsolate Lame versions:
Lame3.24B.rar
Lame3.29B.OS2-only.(25.09.1999).zip
Lame3.30.rar
Lame3.34w.rar
Lame3.35.dll.zip
Lame3.35.OS2-only.(24.10.1999).zip

But some of them only seem to be for OS2(?) and don't run at me on
Win2k... I have made a temporary
Lame
versions package
to check them out if You like.
[a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=236316"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

What's humorous about that is that Windows NT ran OS/2 programs
natively, I don't know if the layer is still in Windows XP.

I also have some very ancient versions of L3enc on a floppy
somewhere, every version from version 1.00 to 2.72, back when I was
addicted to http://ftpsearch.ntnu.no/[
/url] I may have a version you don't have on RRW

I really miss that ftp search engine. What happened to it????
It redirected to Lycos, but now it's gone.

Also the installer for LucasArts 'Tie Fighter' used a Sonarc
decompressor I believe.

When you install Tie Fighter from floppy it puts a bunch of .VC files
into the \tie\resource directory, and decompresses them when it says
"Decompressing Digital Sound and Speech". There is also an advoc.exe
program. It doesn't print anything at all.

Here is the sonarcx.exe output:
C:\TIE\RESOURCE> sonarcx
ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ
ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ»
º        SonarcX, Sound File Decompression Utility, Release version
2.0        º º        Copyright 1992-1993, Speech Compression; all
rights reserved.        º
ÈÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ
ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼ

    Usage: sonarcx [ -<option> ] <input file> [<output file>]
          or: sonarcx { -<option> } <wildcard> [<output path>]
If the output file name is omitted, the name will be formed by taking
the input file root name and appending an extension according to the
format of the input file, as follows:
    .WAV for Sonarc-ed WAVE file (Microsoft/IBM-defined format).
    .VOC for Sonarc-ed VOC file (Creative Labs, Inc.-defined format).
    .<original extension> for any other Sonarc-compressed file.

      Options: Q    for "quiet", no chatter, no warnings for
overwritten files.
                D    to delete the input file after successful
decompression.

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Reply #120
Wowzers. A new update at ReallyRareWares. This one focuses mainly on players:

Musearc 4.4.97.3 beta
NAD player 0.93
Sonique 2 alpha - the infamous leaked version
XAudio MP3 player 0.9a
Yamp player 3.3

Check them out: http://www.rjamorim.com/rrw/

Particularly the Sonique2 article. It describes one of the most retarded net-behaviours I ever witnessed.


And please keep contributions coming, people. I ran out of new stuff to add there months ago :B

Best regards;

Roberto.

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Reply #121
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Yamp player 3.3
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That is memories...

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Reply #122
Greetings!

Thanks to a suggestion by mathematician, I'm now hosting several old versions of Exact Audio Copy at ReallyRareWares.

Watch how EAC progressed since version 0.1beta - that took less than 50Kb zipped!

Most of the versions featured there were kindly contributed by B of digitalx.org. Big thanks to him.

This update isn't yet announced at the home page because I first want to make it bigger after sorting through several goodies contributed by Mitiok. So, for now, to find the EAC page, look at the bottom of the Program listing.

Enjoy!

Regards;

Roberto.

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Reply #123
Weee! Another update.

- Countless versions of the NAD music player contributed by Mitiok
- Pretty much every former version of EAC, contributed by digitalx.org
- A clarification on Sonique2's story by a guy that was there and saw what happened
- The now-dead Compaact! AAC and MP4 encoder by zPlane.development
- Several older versions of SoloH MPGenc contributed by Mitiok
- The famous K-Jöfol music player - first to play VQF and only one to play Astrid AAC


Edit: Post 6900! Nice way to commemorate

Cheers!

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Reply #124
What about older versions of foobar?

That program has also come a long way
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