Better chiptune player for PT2, PT3, MYM as alternative to TUNE.COM

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Massimo

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Mar 30, 2026, 8:55:32 AM (10 days ago) Mar 30
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Since I have the Ed Brindley's YM2149 Sound Card I do actually listen to tunes on my RC2014, however the experience was initially a bit frustrating because the RomWBW built-in TUNE.COM application mangles the console output when playing certain files (I guess it's related to displaying their metadata) but then I found PLAY.COM by GrreenZ (https://github.com/GrreenZ/play-tune/tree/master) that fixes that issue.

Both however can only play one file at the time which is not ideal if you just want to have your system playing in the background.

So I had Claude take the code of PLAY.COM and add a text interface to it.
This new PLAYER.COM displays a list of compatible files (PT2, PT3, MYM) in the slice it's been run from (or the specified one) and you can then select what to play, select another file while it's playing and it will keep playing the next one on the list automatically.
It also displays the metadata in the same view.

I made this for personal use and I'm sharing it in case anyone wants it, but take it as is and of course the credit for the original play engine goes to the original authors (PLAY.COM is a modified version of TUNE.COM)

PLAYER3.jpg
PLAYER.ASM
PLAYER.COM.TXT
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