CD+G on a PC or Mac
Ross A. Nicol
Hi Guys,
This is a slightly unusual posting in that it's following up an article
originally posted to this group in April 96 :)
However, as I haven't found anyone else with the information that was
requested, and as I think the subject may still be of interest, then I think
that it is a valid posting. I've no doubt I'll be told if this is not the
case :)
OK, here goes. This is the original posting as retreived from Dejanews.
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Subject: Re: Looking for CD+G software
From: William T Wilson <flu...@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 1996/04/16
Message-Id: <ElQvsIq00...@andrew.cmu.edu>
References: <4ju9c7$h...@access2.digex.net>
Organization: Freshman, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-Rom
Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom: 10-Apr-96 Re: Looking
>I'm also interested in s/w to play CD+G discs under DOS.
It appears that there are quite a few of us looking for this. Someone did
say that there was CD+G softwavailable for Windows, written by Jim Bumgardner,
and that it was freeware. I have not been able to find it. Whoever posted
that could make a lot of people happy if they would tell us where to find
either the program or the author. I did find Jim Bumgardner, or several of
him; among the artists and physics students there is a programmer by that
name who is currently working for The Castle multimedia Internet chat service
(http://www.thepalace.com/credits). This may or may not be him and the
program in question may or may not exist. Someone by that name has written a
great deal of freeware/shareware and I have none of it,meaning I can't find
him through that. Much of it is audio-player type stuff, which is
encouraging.
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Well I too am interested in finding CD+G player software for the PC, so I
went looking for this stuff, and I found it <g>.
The web site, for anyone who is interested, is
http://www.thepalace.com/jbum/software.html
and it contains not only a copy of the software (cd+g player) itself, but also
Jim's notes on how he wrote it, and also the source code.
As it's a Mac program, then it's not much use to me (or most of the people
here <g>), but with the source code available, there must be a chance that
someone could attempt a port to the PC?
Ross