Short:        PrismaNG: Prisma Megamix card software
Author:       Christian Euler, Marcus Gerards
Uploader:     marcus gerards googlemail com (Marcus Gerards)
Type:         driver/audio
Version:      3.2
Requires:     PrismaControl needs ReAction (OS 3.5+, its menus OS 3.2), PrismaRec OS 3.2. Song titles in PrismaPlay: util/libs/id3tag_lib (68020+).
Architecture: m68k-amigaos >= 3.0
Distribution: NoCD
Kurz:         PrismaNG: Software fuer Prisma Megamix

PrismaNG 3.2  --  26.10.2026


WHAT IT IS

The software for the Prisma Megamix, the Zorro II and clockport sound card
built around VLSI Solution's VS1063a. The chip decodes MP3, Ogg Vorbis, AAC
and FLAC by itself and records MP3, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC, so the Amiga only
moves the data -- music on a 68000, with the CPU to spare.


WHAT IS IN IT

  * prisma.library: how every program reaches the card
  * mhiprisma.library: the MHI driver, for AmigaAMP and other MHI players
  * prisma.audio: the AHI driver, ten modes, four of them full duplex
  * PrismaControl: the mixer, a commodity -- volume, balance, a 5-band EQ
    or bass and treble, the input monitor and level meters, one hotkey
    away (control lalt p); English and German, with a manual in each
  * PrismaPlay: the Shell player, with playlists, ARexx, internet radio
    and recording
  * PrismaRec: the recorder, a cassette deck -- REC, PLAY, PAUSE, the
    tape counter, the reels -- that records what the card hears into
    MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC or WAV and plays the takes back; Deck '84 drawn
    on any screen and two decks of pictures (six more in the package
    PrismaRecSkins, mus/edit), an ARexx port with macros that record what
    EaglePlayer or HippoPlayer plays, a take a module; English and German
    with a manual in each
  * PrismaModes: plays a quiet tone in each AHI mode, ticks those your
    Amiga manages and puts the ones you confirm into AHI's list
  * PrismaEncode and prismadsp.library: a sound file -- WAV, AIFF, FLAC,
    MP3, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, WMA and more -- into MP3, Ogg Vorbis or a WAV
    format, encoded by the card's chip (a WAV faster than real time even
    on a 68000; the compressed ones decoded by the chip too); with a
    manual
  * Normalise: a recording's loudest peak to a level (16-bit PCM WAV)
  * SplitTracks: a recorded record side cut into its tracks at the breaks,
    not fooled by crackle or rumble (16-bit PCM WAV)
  * SetPrisma, PrismaDiag, PrismaState, MHIState, PrismaBench, AHIBench,
    AddPrismaModes and PrismaRecTest: Shell tools
  * VLSI Solution's VS1063a patch package 2.6, which the driver loads into
    the chip: fixes, and the FLAC encoder


INSTALLATION

Double-click Install. The programs go into a drawer called Prisma, wherever
you choose (SYS:Tools by default); S:User-Startup gets "Assign Prisma:" and
"Path Prisma: ADD", so every Shell finds PrismaPlay by name. PrismaRec goes
there too unless you choose another drawer for it, with its two decks of
pictures if you want them. The libraries
go to LIBS:, the drivers and the patch files to DEVS: -- the AHI driver
only where AHI is installed -- and PrismaControl into SYS:WBStartup when the
installer finds a card. With AHI, the installer then opens PrismaModes: a
minute of measuring, and you choose the AHI modes to keep. Run it again
from the Prisma drawer whenever the machine changes.


THIRD-PARTY FILES

vs1063a-patches.plg, vs1063a-encpatchesflac.plg and
vs1063a-playpatchesspectrum.plg are Copyright VLSI Solution Oy, included
unmodified as VLSI publishes them at
https://www.vlsi.fi/en/support/software/vs10xxpatches.html -- as-is,
without warranty, and not covered by this software's copyright. Their
notice, VLSI-Patches.txt, is installed with the manuals, in the Prisma
drawer's Help drawer.

id3tag.library by David Mevius is not included:
https://aminet.net/package/util/libs/id3tag_lib


HISTORY

3.2 - first release on Aminet:
  - new prisma.library, MHI and AHI drivers
  - recording: MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC
  - files encoded by the chip: prismadsp.library 1.2 and PrismaEncode
    1.0, which reads WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, WMA and more
  - PrismaRec 1.0, the cassette-deck recorder, with Normalise 1.0 and
    SplitTracks 1.0
  - PrismaControl, the mixer commodity, in English and German
  - an Installer script


THANKS

To David Steves, for testing on real hardware and for the detailed
reports and recordings.

To Martin "Mason" Merz, for the GlowIcons of PrismaControl, PrismaRec and
the Prisma drawer.

To Thomas Luebker, for AmiAgent, which let the software be tested on a
real A4000T straight from the development machine.


COPYRIGHT

Copyright Christian Euler and Marcus Gerards. It may only be redistributed
by its authors or by A-EON Technology Ltd. Provided as is, without any
warranty; see the Copyright page of PrismaPlay.guide.