Appendix F — Software (as installed)

Running SETUPGLD on the Program Disks expands the spanned GOLD*.CMP archive into a \GOLD directory of 133 files: the DOS drivers, the end-user applications, a large sample library and a set of demo songs. This appendix presents that complete installed tree.

The files here were not obtained by running the 1992 installer (it aborts with "Gold Card not found" on any machine without the hardware, and its decompressor is entangled with the C++ runtime). Instead the "Ad Lib Comp." container format and its LZ+Huffman codec were reverse-engineered from SETUPGLD.EXE and re-implemented — see Appendix H. Correctness is proven: the recovered CTRLDRV.EXE is byte-for-byte identical (matching MD5) to the copy that ships uncompressed on Program Disk 1, and every recovered executable is a valid MZ image. The tree was malware-scanned clean.

Browse the decoded files under disks/program-disks-v1.00/installed/.

\GOLD\DRIVERS — DOS device drivers

The loadable driver set documented in Chapter 5.

\GOLD — applications

Plus batch launchers (SETUP.BAT, TEST.BAT, JUKEGOLD.BAT, STRACKED.BAT, VOICEPAD.BAT, PLAYANIM.BAT, DRIVERS.BAT, STRKDRV.BAT), instrument banks OPL3.BNK / SAMPLES.BNK, a sync demo SYNCDEMO.SNC, and the installed README.TXT (md).

\GOLD — demo songs (.RL2)

Fourteen .RL2 sequences ship as demos: BUILDING, CAVE, FLIGHT, HIGHWAY2, INDUSTRY, KRAKEN, LORDS, LUTECONC, MACHINE, MIRRORS, NEWERA, TOCCATA2, ULTIMATE, WALKPARK.

\GOLD\SMP — sample library

90 .SMP sample files — the percussion and instrument library used by the tools (bass/snare drums, cymbals, hi-hats, congas, cowbells, claves, bells, brushes, handclaps, and the $TEXT* speech samples). See the full listing.

Version history (v0.91b beta → v1.00)

Because the codec is now decodable, the beta software (v0.91b, 31 March 1992) — preserved as floppy images in Appendix G — can be expanded too and diffed against the v1.00 release (23 April 1992, three weeks later). The changes:

• Sample library reorganised. In the beta the ~85 .SMP files sat loose in \GOLD; v1.00 moves them into the new \GOLD\SMP sub-directory. This accounts for most of the apparent file churn — the samples themselves are unchanged.
• Demo songs renamed — the beta's *GLD/*GD suffixes were dropped: BUILDGLD→BUILDING, CAVEGLD→CAVE, ERAGLD→NEWERA, INDUSGLD→INDUSTRY, KRAKENGD→KRAKEN, MACHIGLD→MACHINE, MIRRORGD→MIRRORS, ULTIMGLD→ULTIMATE, WALKGLD→WALKPARK, LUTECON→LUTECONC. The beta's FUGUE2/PRELUDE2 were dropped; TOCCATA2, HIGHWAY2, FLIGHT and LORDS were added.
• SAMPLBNK.EQU removed — confirmed verbatim by the v1.00 README: "Due to changes in the .RL2 file format, file SAMPLBNK.EQU is no longer necessary and has been removed."
• Animation player restructured — the beta's single PLAYANIM.EXE became a PLAYANIM.BAT launcher driving a new ANIMGLD.EXE.
• Every driver and application was recompiled (all compressed sizes differ); most notably ALARMDRV.EXE and PLAYRL2.EXE roughly halved in size.
• Batch reshuffle — SYNCDRV.BAT dropped, STRKDRV.BAT added, and SETUP.BAT folded into the payload (it now auto-calls CTRLDRV.EXE, per the v1.00 README).

The beta README also records user-facing changes settling in just before release: the MIXER/RL2DRV hotkeys became redefinable from SETUP, and the mixer's F4 key was repurposed to save the configuration permanently to EEPROM. Developer-facing addenda continued into v1.01 — the Release Notes add the RL2DRV driver-ordering requirement, the SAMPL.EXE library-conflict warning, and the interrupt-disable discipline for hardware access.