241 Reply by ant1

(13 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

could be pitched noize? i know some people like to do that for basses

edit: maybe i am talking about a different sound to you, hrm

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242 Reply by ant1

(13 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)

smile yep, a good idea

honestly the bulk download idea sucks, give up on it

you don't approach normal music like "i'll just listen to every rock song ever made until i find the good ones" because it doesn't work and it doesn't work with chiptunes either.

i've tried going through the whole hvsc and got about quarter of the way before giving up disheartend, if you just ask your friends and likeminded people for the cool stuff that they are into, you can find a lot more cool stuff like that through word of mouth, without having to listen to all the junk in between

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243 Reply by ant1

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

chunter wrote:

Tandy 1000 series had a proprietary 16 color which was neither EGA nor CGA, though many games supported it.

mhmm, backward compatible with CGA though ! (and i dont know any trackers that use the tandy extensions)

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244 Reply by ant1

(1,620 replies, posted in General Discussion)

did you build a usb hub inside a tape cassette smile~

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245 Reply by ant1

(9 replies, posted in Past Events)

awesome! gb in trash box! i wish i could be there

but it is thousands of miles away~  have fun guys!

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246 Reply by ant1

(13 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)

akira^8GB wrote:
ant1 wrote:

it focuses "too much" on chiptunes which is good because doskpop and rave music suck

It seems to me you're stuck downloading 90s mods only. Because none of the newer Amiga stuff is either doskpop or rave ;P

well tongue was in cheek a little bit. but if you do download a huge archive of non chiptune amiga music you are bound to get so much doskpop and bad attempts at 90s dance music which is a bit disheartening and wastes space and bandwidth

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247 Reply by ant1

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

i thought "pressing Esc and being able to enter commands" meant you were able to get to DOS?

i think this model has DOS built into it (in rom??) so you shouldn't need a disk with anything but trackers/samples but i don't know how you can bypass deskmate startup. a pdf of the tl3 user manual (tl3user.zip) is available from the verrry slow oldschool.org ftp ftp://ftp.oldskool.org/pub/tvdog/tandy1 … l3user.zip

i imagine it would explain in there

TSC wrote:

If this is anything like a 286, look for Module Editor v2.00 (by Norman Lin) and Blaster Master (sampler software). According to this release (which Radiograffiti will have in stock for the new site launch) it can sound just like an Amiga.

http://www.killbotrecords.com/killbot/d … er-286-12/

That is if I'm understanding any of this correctly, which I may not be considering I just woke up.


blaster master is, i believe, designd for the sound blaster (a clue in the name)

mod edit runs on anything i believe, even MDA and PC Speaker. but i do not think it has support for tandy soundchip so you would be stuck with just using pc speaker. unless you have a speech thing which is an 8 bit soundcard that connects to the printer you can easily build yourself or maybe buy on ebay (http://harryaxten.webs.com/covoxspeechthingclone.htm)

having the speech thing would maybe open up the trackers you could use and give you more compatability but not having EGA/VGA still limits the trackers you can use a lot (maybe screamtracker 2 works with CGA and covox, but it realllllly sucks) (it possible to add a VGA card to a tandy computer I BELIEVE)


anyway!  286 does not "sound like an amiga" since 286 is just a CPU, a 286 computer may have any kind of hardware installed to it. i suppose for this record he had a soundblaster although he doesn't mention it. tracking protracker mods with crappy 8 bit output will sound a bit like an amiga whatever you do though big_smile

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248 Reply by ant1

(13 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)

there is also melcom's chiptunes archive which is only 80 megabytes and only includes chiptunes
http://www.chiptune.de/
it focuses "too much" on chiptunes which is good because doskpop and rave music suck

you can also download all of modarchive, it is around 30 gigabytes for the 2007 snapshot and around 1 gigabyte for each year's updates since then. unfortunately files are no sorted by artist but by file name which is NOT GREAT. this does not focus on chiptune. i think there are 120000 songs here

chiptune.com also has an ftp and a selection of modules which is much smaller and handpicked by rez. it shouldn't take you long to download all of that. given the url you can probably guess it focuses on chipmusic.

the problem with downloding a million chiptunes at once is....... well, imagine downloading all of 8bc. 99% of it sucks smile

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249 Reply by ant1

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

massive resource for tandy 1000 series stuff here  http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/documents.html       : - D   god i love docummmments

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250 Reply by ant1

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

well i know some things about that old computer

it's pretty much a 286 pc,  you can run msdos up to v6 and possibly pcdos on it. has a decent enough DAC on it , which would be cool for tracking but a lot of trackers (edit: maybe all, didnt encounter a tracker which can use this feature yet) do not have support. also has the soundchip from the sega master system in it, which can be tracked with monotone which has explicit support for this soundchip + cga interface, probably your best bet.

a cool machine but suffering from lack of software to make use of its unique capabilitys

but no i don't know anything about your deskmate problems, which is kind of a bummer because deskmate comes with some music software.

but even if you don't fix that you can still use DOS (maybe tryout monotone it is pretty cool) so its not totally junk

link to monotone: http://www.oldskool.org/pc/MONOTONE

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251 Reply by ant1

(8 replies, posted in Tutorials, Mods & How-To's)

well, if you can deal with the slightly lacking copy/paste functions i think it has everything else you might want. the sample editor is pretty powerful too which is great especially for me coming from IT which doesnt really even have one

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252 Reply by ant1

(8 replies, posted in Tutorials, Mods & How-To's)

egr wrote:

Trying this in a dos shell but its asking for a password and keyboard wont work?

I think my dos laptop has finally croaked.  :'(

you gotta run DS-CRK to crack it and you have to do this every time you want to use it, i just put DS-CRK and DS15 in a batch file together and run that,  and then you just press enter with the password blank and it works


dunno why the keyboard isn't working though, maybe your laptop finally did die sad((


pulselooper yah, quite obvious where the inspiration came from smile for me is just a nice protracker alternative since UAE and amiga emulation in general is a pile of shit (and milkytracker is a pile of shit too)  (and openmpt is not a pile of shit but i dont wanna use it and it isnt really optimal for MODs either)

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253 Reply by ant1

(30 replies, posted in Tutorials, Mods & How-To's)

yellow plastic is sexy sad

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254 Reply by ant1

(66 replies, posted in Past Events)

gutted i couldn't make it, glad you guys had a lot of fun smile)))

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255 Reply by ant1

(102 replies, posted in General Discussion)

i thought sheet music was for learning a thing when you are in the stage before you have memorized it

i mean you have to play something quite a lot of times before you have memorized it and if it is several minutes long or particularly complex it might not be that easy to do it by ear

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256 Reply by ant1

(45 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

if you have a cartridge you have a great chance to add elements to your music that mp3 cannot give

~ randomness/aleatorics (this doesn't necessarily mean random numbers to all registers. you can provide the music and let the computer decide the structure)
~ interactivity
~ visual/multi-media elements
~ a degree of editability or any other kind of input by the end user

a lot of possibilities that are opened up by the approach are not really explored. i am not sure having an album that plays straight trough and/or lets you skip/select tracks is a particularly worthwhile choice of vehicle for your music. in fact it is just like a CD album but with less widespread replay hardware (exactly like cd but less accessible == gimmick, ok?).

so when you have all these possibilities please try to exploit them. i don't think tristan perich really did that. but i didn't buy his album so i wouldn't know

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