Slight Atari Player

File Format
Name	Slight Atari Player
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Audio and Music Slight Atari Player
Extension(s)	.sap

Description

The SAP (Slight Atari Player) file format was created in the 1990s with the intention of providing a single format for playback of any Atari 8-bit music (specifically, any music using the Atari POKEY sound chip) on PC.

Information

• SAP File Format

Software

Conversion

• ASMA - Tools downloads, hosts downloads of SAPMaker 5, SAP'em All! v1.0 and SAPMaker (Amiga). These tools can convert from Chaos Music Composer (CMC, CMR), Music ProTracker (MPT, MD1, MD2), Theta Music Creator (TMC, TM8), Advanced Music System (AMS) and Benjy Soundmonitor songs into SAP files.
  
• Konvertor

Playback

• ASAP - Another Slight Atari Player (cross-platform, open source)
• Game_Music_Emu (Video game music file emulation/playback library)
• sapemu (Atari XL / XE, open source)
• zxtune

See also ASMA - Player downloads for many other SAP players].

Sample files

• dexvert samples — music/sap

Links

• ASMA - Atari SAP Music Archive