353 Reply by garvalf

(11 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)

hello,

I asked about ProTracker 3 on WoS (http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/d … edirect/p1) and since I didn't receive answer, I copy my question here as well:

how to transfer the data to my PC?

I can save a tune into the original PT372.SCL floppy, then I used sn113 (dos tool to get data from spectrum disk) to extract the saved file to my PC. It works, I got a file.$M with data in it. But if I try to open it in vortex tracker (as pt3, I renamed the file), it's not usable. Some notes are recognised, but not everything, and therefore it's not correct.

There is a save, compile, decompile option in protracker. What are the differences? It seems save and compile are giving the same binaries in the end.

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354 Reply by garvalf

(2 replies, posted in Collaborations)

cool, I'll try to do something...

Just to clarify, there is a protracker for Amiga, but for AY music it is Protracker 3 for zx spectrum, as described here: http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/14763 … or-speccy/

With mouse support in the Fuse emulator, and being similar to Vortex Tracker, I find it rather easy to use...

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355 Reply by garvalf

(6 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)

it sounds great, and it's open-source... well done and thank you!

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356 Reply by garvalf

(227 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)

ah yes, some of them are by side: http://www.datamath.org/Graphing/JPEG_T … FR.htm#PCB (I also suspect this TI82 stats behaves like the Parcus)
Maybe i'll wait for a next garage sale. I'm not in a hurry, but a second TI would be convenient for having several projects (and also using rawp-ti). They are so short in memory...
I'd like also to mod them, like replacing the 2.5 shitty jack port with a 3.5 one, or adding a new one (it might not work).

Hey, I want this one in transluscent green: http://www.datamath.org/Graphing/TI-83PLUS_S0504E.htm

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357 Reply by garvalf

(227 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)

do all the TI-82 have a port for connexion? Some I see on ebay don't seem to have one, but maybe it's not located at the bottom.

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358 Reply by garvalf

(227 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)

It's a great project! Another powerful engine designed by Irrlichtproject.

You can get a "greylink" usb cable for under 15€ on ebay, search for "USB transfer cable/link calculator Texas Instrument TI 83, TI 83plus, TI89" (the only annoying thing is they are quite short in length)

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359 Reply by garvalf

(27 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)

you can maybe find cheaper monitors. I've seen some 7" around 20 or 30 € on ebay: http://www.ebay.fr/itm/7-inch-HD-Profes … 33aa726739

or even cheaper for smaller 4,3 " : http://www.ebay.fr/itm/181741830294

but be careful, it seems some are not very compatible with the C64 (refresh problem), have a look at lemon64 forum, there are some threads about this (which I can't find again at the moment)

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360 Reply by garvalf

(6 replies, posted in Releases)

Very catchy tunes, as usual with ComputeHer. It's a good idea to remake the same song with new chips / systems. We are SIDuced.

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361 Reply by garvalf

(45 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)

Hello Hermit,

SID-Wizard is really a wonderful program, I can confirm it's really convenient to use with the Vice Emulator. Thanks a lot for programming it. I started making SID tunes with GoatTracker, but now SID-Wizard is my favorite: it has a nice looking appearance, it's easier than GT to create instruments with it, it's also great to manipulate tracks and the orderlist (GT is similar for this aspect). I've made 6 complete tunes with it, and I have 3 or 4 other W.I.P. The only thing that I could miss is the mouse, sometimes it's quicker to point and click smile (and with VICE when we click on the window for focusing, there is an annoying menu appearing under the mouse cursor).

The XM and midi conversion (import AND export) is another killer feature I'm often using.

GoatTracker is very good too, and I'll probably use it again in the future, but SID-Wizard will probably remain my all-time favourite. I've only used it briefly on my C64, but I can't save on it (I can only transfer data one-way). Seems equally easy to use. The keyboard shortcuts are very well chosen, yes.  When using symbolic mapping, I can turn off/on channel 1 and 3, but not channel 2. Some I'll probably give positional mapping a try (I thought I couldn't use some other shortcuts with positional, but a quick test on another computer seems to confirm all is working fine).

Another great thing with SID-Wizard is the complete reference manual and sheetcheat, which make it easy to start with (goattracker's manual is quite complete too, but more obscure on some points). DefMon looks powerful, but has almost no documentation.

So far I find SID-Wizard almost perfect. The only thing I don't understand is whether it's possible to use chords (arpeggios) in conjunction with effect-column such as pitch up or vibrato. When I activate a chord in an instrument (with 7F), I can no longer use those effects.

I'd be also cool if it could remember the start-up menu preference when we save the config.

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362 Reply by garvalf

(5 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

what do you mean by "game ready"? Most tracker for a given chip/system can export for making games to this system: for example with vortex tracker II you can export a file so you can include it into a sinclair spectrum game, with goattracker you can export to include it into a C64 games.

But from your question, I guess you're targeting a more modern system such as Windows, Mac OS X or Linux? Then do you just want to create a mp3 or ogg/vorbis file to include into your game? Then any tracker can be just as good as another one, that really depends what kind of chiptune sound you're expecting.

klystrack, famitracker, deflemask, lsdj, sunvox are rather easy to use trackers.

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363 Reply by garvalf

(42 replies, posted in Sega)

marcb0t wrote:

Sigh... your answers are contained within the first few pages of this thread:

http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/8243/ … sic-maker/

Such a shame it had to turn out this way, too. sad

ah, thank you for pointing it to me. It's a sad situation.  The comment "Shiru's interface never improved much" was plain stupid...

Shiru and his projects really rock, this man is a genius (coding for zx, coding for windows, coding for NES and SNES, composing great music)

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364 Reply by garvalf

(42 replies, posted in Sega)

it's the pity this tfmmaker was removed from Shiru's website. Do you know why? It's a very good program. You can find a copy there:

http://sega4ever.power-heberg.com/Downl … ker152.rar

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365 Reply by garvalf

(53 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

it looks interesting. What is this srm feature? I've seen it's supposed to be used in SNES emulators, but I guess this srm is for some gameboy emulators?

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366 Reply by garvalf

(81 replies, posted in Other Hardware)

about the QT4 app, I managed to compile it on Linux (Mint), you don't need the complete sdk, just "apt-get install qt4-dev-tools" and it should be enough. About the makefile, it complained about a missing X11 lib during the linker part. So I just type "g++ -Wl,-O1 -o FB01v2 editeur.o set.o midi.o block.o voice.o operateur.o instrument.o bank.o config.o edit.o bank_voice.o automation.o periph.o qoperateur.o qbutton.o qclavier.o qvoice.o qinstrument.o qenveloppe.o qbank.o mainwindow.o qautomation.o qconfig.o memory_ex.o midi_ex.o ex.o automation_ex.o moc_qoperateur.o moc_qbutton.o moc_qclavier.o moc_qvoice.o moc_qinstrument.o moc_qenveloppe.o moc_mainwindow.o moc_qbank.o moc_qautomation.o moc_qconfig.o qrc_FB01.o    -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lasound -lQtGui -lQtCore -lpthread -lX11" (the command with -lX11) and it worked. I don't have a FB01 though and it's less cheap than it used to be in the past it seems (at least 70-80 €)

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367 Reply by garvalf

(27 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I tried to make this one sounding quite melancholic, I don't know if I succeeded but anyway: https://soundcloud.com/garvalf/la-dame- … e-du-chene

(more to come sooner or later)

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368 Reply by garvalf

(13 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

I like pianorolls smile
Thank you for sharing this, it seems to be a wonderful piece of software (as are gimp and audacity)

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