OK, let's check it out - July 7th, yes. I imagine You don't have to get attached too much for that date, supposedly, if You send it in 15th, it still will be OK - but it would be risky indeed.
]]>Sadly I made this mistake myself and learnt painfully that Atari will play all transposed instruments on "0" anyway, heh, so it would give false tones.
If I don't manage to go to the meeting, due to some personal matters, then somebody else will lead the compo for sure.
]]> OK, let's check it out - July 7th, yes. I imagine You don't have to get attached too much for that date, supposedly, if You send it in 15th, it still will be OK - but it would be risky indeed.
]]>]]>As for me, I actually used Amiga500 this time, hahaha.
And for the brave ones, we always have the NeoTracker itself (all version, thanks to Mono) -
http://atarionline.pl/v01/index.php?ct= … NeoTracker
I imagine, the most comfortable way of creating, for not necessarily Atari XL people, might be to fill some MOD file with samples, load into Atari XL, and continuing the process, from now on.
I dunno. Just thinkin' aloud.
OK, thx duuuudz.
]]>at least it'll be *somewhat* oldskool, haha
]]>Just in case, You could check out whether it IS the Atari XL installation of Neo 1.7, or isn't:
http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/NEO17INS.COM
It should be. Will work on emulators too, if You configure some HDD or probably a big ATR.
As for the sound, I suspect the only emulator with a proper digi-sound would be Altirra.
http://www.virtualdub.org/altirra.html
Pulse: as far as I know - it does.
I suspect here are some examples http://www.ftp.pigwa.net/stuff/collecti … usic/Mody/
It has slides (up and down) but they are very different from the Amiga ones, so if one uses Amiga, he shouldn't use them (many false tones).
Ah, and classical range of notes "C3 - B5" is required.
Here are some infos (sorry for the GoogleTranslate) -
https://translate.googleusercontent.com … eUraMfEydQ
I suppose it would be easier to make small MODs and send us, our coder promised he will convert them 100% properly (or even better than the Neo itself).
]]>Does the Neotracker opens the regular Amiga .mod (under those limitations), or is there some sort of previous conversion?
]]>It will be a MOD contest for Atari 800XL / 65XE. It play MODs rather cool with 4-bit quality (under some conditions) so one can write MOD on anything - Amiga would be the safer - but the compo music will be played from the Atari X/XE, hehe.
Deadline would be 13.07.2015.
Address to send the MODs:
yerzmyey AT interia.pl
But there are some important infos:
Format -
- Amiga/ProTracker MOD (You know, PC mods play more octaves and it doesn't work later on Amiga nor Atari XL/XE).
- 4 channels,
- size of the file: up to 50Kb. No more (!!) because it will not fit in Atari XL memory (that is 64Kb of RAM).
Commands that have been ported into Atari XL (so we can use them) -
Cxx - volume
A0x - volume slide down (fade out)
Ax0 - volume slide up (fade in)
F0x - tempo
D00 - break pattern / goto next position
I would suggest to avoid the typical chiptune "very fast loops on tiny samples" phenomenon. There's no way to tell, how such a thing would behave outside of its environment (Amiga) and how it would actually work on 4-bit transducers (Pokey) played with 1,7Mhz CPU instead of PAULA chip, You know.
It is possible we might try to release some compilation of the sent music, later. Who knows.
Well, just a thought anyway. You know the e'mail address.
Byezzzzzz,
Yerz
