PIANOMAN PLAYER PIANO self-playing song
PLAYER PIANO is a music format conversion utility. It is a component of PIANOMAN, a music application for DOS. One of the formats it can convert to is an executable self-playing song file.
PIANOMAN and PLAYER PIANO were developed by Neil J. Rubenking. "PIANOMAN" is sometimes written in other ways, such as "PIANO MAN" or "piano man".
For v2.1-3.04, self-playing songs use COM format. For v4.00-4.01, they use EXE.
Identification
More research may be needed.
For COM format v2.1-3.04, the first 30 bytes seem to always be the same. The first 16 are b4 06 b5 00 b1 00 b6 18 b2 4f b7 07 b0 00 cd 10.
In unmodified COM files, the string ">piano man<" appears somewhere.
EXE files are observed to have the string "PINFO*" at offset 1152.
Software
PIANOMAN / PLAYER PIANO:
- v2.1: [1] → PIANODOC.ZIP + PIANOMAN.ZIP + PIANOMUS.ZIP + PIANOUTL.ZIP
- v3.02: VOL216.ZIP
- v3.04: Frostbyte Collection → floppyshareware.zip → LUNACY/PIANOMAN.ZIP
- v4.0: DISK0279.ZIP
- v4.01: [2] → PIANOM1J.LZH + PIANOM2J.LZH
Other:
- MADTRB5.ZIP → PIANO.* - Possible predecessor or early version, for research purposes.
Sample files
- COMTUN.ZIP - COM format
- CHEYENNE.ZIP - EXE format
