Exotic Ripper

I want to use Exotic Ripper (Exotica based his name upon this ?)
but i don't know the system requirements

Can i use Amiga 500 or i must emulate other models and
wich kind of kicksatrt, workbench is preferred to use

Thanks in advance

[mailman]

Exotic Ripper works on A500 but you need at least OS 2.0. On bare A500 with OS 1.3 I recommend JackTheRipper.

Thank you mailman, but you know where i can find some kind
of guide of how to use this program ?

[mailman]

Well, it's relatively easy. It can work two ways:

1. Execute the ripper and load a file you want to rip module from. You load file with command R (just type R and press Enter - it does not have to be in capital letters). Then choose the file and type H for searching (hunting) the module. If you got lucky, something will be found and you can save it by typing W (write).

You need to be aware that the best way is to load files which are already decrunched.

In case of using JackTheRipper everything is pretty similar but you do hunting by:
H 0 (there is a space between H and 0) - looking for rather typical modules.
H 1 - looking more thoroughly. Takes longer and sometimes what it rips is not a module
H 2 - looking for different types of files (crunched files, IFF picture files).
(if you want, after the digit, you may add address to start searching from. Address must be preceded by $ character and must consist of eight digits (eg. $00090000). Of course the address start must be the same as the address where the file was loaded to).

In JtR important is that when a module is found, you need to type W and press ENTER twice (do not Enter any addresses after the first Enter).

2. Second way is to scan the memory. Load the game/demo you want to rip module from, reset your machine and execute the ripper. Scanning technique is the same as above but you don't need to load anything. Just start searching and wait for results. Important thing is that before executing ripper you can not load much into memory because the data of what you loaded may cover the data you want to rip.

Both tools have also help option (help or -h - I can't recall now).

Thank you

I will try to get some ripped music !

Bye bye

Help Help Help

I'm not able to load exotic ripper from workbench 1.3 since
i never used real Amiga for "serious" things

I downloaded the exoticripper 3.3 lha archive but then ?

What i must do from workbench to load the ripper stored in the lha file ??????

[mailman]

Originally Posted by Another World

Help Help Help

I'm not able to load exotic ripper from workbench 1.3 since

As I wrote in the first post, Exotic Ripper needs at least OS 2.0.

Originally Posted by Another World

i never used real Amiga for "serious" things

I downloaded the exoticripper 3.3 lha archive but then ?

What i must do from workbench to load the ripper stored in the lha file ??????

You need to dearchive the archive using LhA but it is futile since you don't have OS 2.0 (Exotic-Ripper will not run under OS 1.3).

Ok mailman i did it.
I have workbench 2.0 and unpacked lha archive, but now the question
is the same: from inside workbench what i must do to load the ripper ?

However BEFORE to proceed there's something i must know about ripping music.

Since my goal is to get some modules, but i will do it (perhaps !) using WinUAE
and not a real Amiga, can i rely about final results ?
In other words i will obtain "correct" module using an emulation software ?
(sure, a great piece of software, i know)
Perhaps Toni can answer this much better.
Otherwise it's totally without sense start to rip anything.
I love quality not quantity.
Probably disk rips are exactly the same while memory rips cause problems
under an emulation environment ?
(i'm speaking about technical aspects i really don't know !)
I apologize for my english, i hope you understand what i mean.

Goodnight to all

[Toni Wilen]

Use built-in module ripper (prowizard)

[mailman]

Originally Posted by Another World

Ok mailman i did it.
I have workbench 2.0 and unpacked lha archive, but now the question
is the same: from inside workbench what i must do to load the ripper ?

Click on its icon? I can't see the problem here.

But, as I said before, I would not advise to load Workbench. Create an empty disk with exotic-ripper and reqtools.library (or you have HDD - boot without startup-sequence and execute the program from CLI). You can't cover module data with other data.

Since my goal is to get some modules, but i will do it (perhaps !) using WinUAE
and not a real Amiga, can i rely about final results ?

In what way?

In other words i will obtain "correct" module using an emulation software ?

Of course you will.

"Create an empty disk with exotic-ripper and reqtools.library"
..... i'm sorry but i don't know anything about that.

I'M DUMMY

I hope you are patience with me

[mailman]

Originally Posted by Another World

"Create an empty disk with exotic-ripper and reqtools.library"
..... i'm sorry but i don't know anything about that.

Format an empty disk, install bootblock on it and copy exotic-ripper and reqtool.library on it. It would be good if you install in your system some filemanager (Filemaster or DOpus). Things with installing and copying files would be much easier.

[jotd]

does someone have a bootable disc with exotic ripper installed?

On OS3.9 it just exits, even snoopdos doesn't log anything. And on OS3.1 when I run the GUI I get "no response from exotic ripper V2.32"

non GUI program exits immediately too... Talk about error handling. I'm desperate for a working ripper for TFMX songs.

[daxb]

Check the guide for requirements (needs some stuff to run). WB start of the GUI works fine here. If I try to start it from CLI it fails and then also the WB start fails. The non GUI program fails to start also then. So I guess some resource or bug is responsible.

[Don_Adan]

Originally Posted by jotd

does someone have a bootable disc with exotic ripper installed?

On OS3.9 it just exits, even snoopdos doesn't log anything. And on OS3.1 when I run the GUI I get "no response from exotic ripper V2.32"

non GUI program exits immediately too... Talk about error handling. I'm desperate for a working ripper for TFMX songs.

You can use TFMX's EagleRipper for EaglePlayer2. Exotic Ripper dont needs external files to work, but i never used latest version with GUI, only older CLI version. Requester library can be used, but is not necessary. you can save memory/module via CLI only.

[demoniac]

I'm running ExoticRipper GUI 3.3 on OS3.1 via HDD.

[chip]

For jotd

As Don Adan said, you can use EagleRipper from EaglePlayer program

I used this for TFMX modules with success

Just download the ripper from here

http://wt.exotica.org.uk/players.html

If i well remember a ripper exist only for normal TFMX, but i'm not sure

[jotd]

thanks, I could use ExoticRipper. Running from WB with proper libs installed on the system worked. I could rip a TFMX song + samples from a memory dump.

[Frog]

I will not respond to your request by offering you a floppy version but there is another utility that may be useful to you: XFR http://psi5.com/~silva/afilter/index.html

[jotd]

thanks but link to download tool is dead.