Chris Cowley released Beepola for Win32. Currently it has 4 different drivers which play 2-channel music (some with drums) out of the 1-bit speaker of the ZX Spectrum machines. You can also export to a tap file for playback on real hardware or as part of other programs.
1,057 May 23, 2010 1:11 pm
Topic: Beepola - Sinclair Spectrum cross-platform beeper tracker (23 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)
1,058 May 23, 2010 1:02 pm
Topic: Rob Hubbard's music driver (C64) (30 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
Documented source of the 'Monty on the run' driver:
http://www.1xn.org/text/C64/rob_hubbards_music.txt
While later players have taken more of a table-based approach to instruments, the basics of most drivers can still be linked back to these '80s ones. Hubbard's driver was also hacked by other musicians but it has such a distinctive sound you can usually tell. 
Fairly complete collection as a demo, with some inaccuracies
1,059 May 22, 2010 10:17 pm
Re: Commodore 64 Data Transfer (5 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
Yeah for single files Wav-Prg is excellent. If you need to convert disks over to a real diskdrive using only tape there is a roundabout way. I can't remember what tool I used but doing a search for 'disk to tape' on CSDB came up with a few results, probably do a similar job. It won't work with exotic disk formats and I'm not sure about directories with 0 block files or petscii names either. (like some demos have)
Anyway, you run the disk to tape program on an emulator, insert the disk you want copied and it'll save a virtual tape file of the contents. Then convert that tape file using Wav-Prg onto audiotape, and save a copy of the converter tool on the audiotape as well. (obviously )
Run the converter tool on your real c64, stick a blank disk in the real drive and play the rest of the tape to convert back to disk. I tested our Vic-20 Megademo this way, your mileage may vary.
1,060 May 19, 2010 2:14 pm
Re: Looking For An Amiga Musician (open call) (76 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
reading the comments on the vid this might be him: http://www.youtube.com/user/tvpmark
1,061 May 17, 2010 10:35 am
Re: Ahx tracker / Questions and request. (9 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
Out of interest I spent a little time this morning trying configs out. (on an emulator, my hardware is packed away and it would have taken hours doing this IRL. )
I grabbed the archive from http://woolyss.com/chipmusic-chiptrackers.php?s=Amiga and made a floppy of the source files plus the devs & libs folders from my hd. It definately needs something or other from those folders but I can't tell which though because the .exes are packed and it's not listed in the docs afaik.
The docs say: "All Amigas with 68020+ and Workbench 2.0/3.0 - NO AGA required! The replayer only requires MC68000+" so we're not off to a good start.
My results (running the 68000 version in the archive) are:
Amiga 500, Kick 1.3, 512mb chip, 512 slow ram : No.
Amiga 500, Kick 1.3, 1mb chip : No
Amiga 600, 1mb chip : No
Amiga 600, 2mb chip : Yes
I wouldn't take that as confirmation it works on hardware though, the last config could have had something switched on that isn't strictly Amiga 600. It'd be best if someone spent a whole day testing configs. (not me) Personally Amiga emulated doesn't really sound different from the real thing anyway, it's only playing non-interpolated samples after all, I'd stick with emulator and just get on with writing tunes.
1,062 May 17, 2010 7:53 am
Re: Good Documentaries? (55 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Crumb, Black Sun, The devil and Daniel Johnston, Beach Boys : An American Band (for the tons of footage) , Lost in La Mancha, Dig!
1,063 May 11, 2010 12:47 am
Re: Jumping on the Amiga boat. (22 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
Amusing chicken and egg situation getting the transfer software to Amiga. Shame the converters are quite large or you could type the thing out in a hexeditor, I've done that on c64 before.
1,064 May 10, 2010 7:32 pm
Re: Jumping on the Amiga boat. (22 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
iirc back in the day I used single sided disks and a (commercial) amiga program called DOS2DOS to get stuff to and from PC. Used to use that for transferring college work and as a bonus getting things onto the ST. Typical Commodore non-standard disc formats.
1,065 May 10, 2010 6:50 am
Re: Jumping on the Amiga boat. (22 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
Another 'chipmusic' editor for old Amigas: SoundMon from the author's site. Also the Expressions musicdemo on the same page is a classic.
1,066 May 10, 2010 4:49 am
Re: Jumping on the Amiga boat. (22 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
I used this version of Protracker back in the day on my Amiga 500. I use this one now as it seems more emulator and HD friendly. Might even work on a500. If you want to go further back in time NoiseTracker and any of the old Soundtrackers will work too, though they have far less functionality than PT.
If you want to try something other than chipmodules there are a lot of specific editors from the old days. afaik AHX doesn't run on a500 machines but, for example, Future Composer does, though I don't think it comes with docs.
There's a whole bunch of other 'chip' ones in this amigascne folder. like BugMon, JamCracker, Sidmon. Probably some others, I forget the names. Some of those are a1200 only, like Art Of Noise.
Oktalyzer and StarTrekker are 8-channel trackers (software mixing), but they were both quite early so are missing a lot of functions that Protracker has.
1,067 May 5, 2010 3:02 pm
Re: C64 BASIC (and assembly) (18 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
Ahh Boomlinde, yeah I loved that glitch demo you did. Nice to see you and Sander on here. Ate Bit are thinking about doing more VJ-style things on 8bits, seems like people are looking for more 'controllable' demos.
1,068 May 4, 2010 5:27 am
Re: C64 BASIC (and assembly) (18 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
Some of my c64 stuff:
"In a Loop" 1k demo:
"Type Mismatch" 1k demo:
"Bad Scene Poets are back" fullsize demo:
I uploaded some of my old c64 driver sources here:
http://ihearthesoundofwaves.blogspot.co … ng-it.html
I've probably still got the intro ones somewhere.
1,069 Apr 19, 2010 11:32 am
Re: Favorite instruments to compose on: GO! (43 replies, posted in General Discussion)
big Fatar keyboard with NI Akoustik Piano.
1,070 Apr 14, 2010 1:22 pm
Re: facebook: most of you have already done this but just incase you havnt (45 replies, posted in General Discussion)
1,071 Mar 21, 2010 7:25 pm
Re: Post Your Tumblrs! (177 replies, posted in General Discussion)
forest world: it was real but I got bored updating it.
1,072 Mar 18, 2010 5:34 pm
Re: Attention Labels: facebook it up (33 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Yeah I agree with Subway Sonicbeat, it's definately worth chucking a few mails at 'proper' music sites, just get used to the success ratio being tiny. While chipmusic is seen as a bit of a 'gimmick' outside the scene that's also a benefit imo, I mean if you're doing something a bit different with it you can use that style as an angle no one else has. The Facebook thing, hmm... well what's the harm? Personally I stopped updating the MySpace because FB is far easier to edit with and it's readable without having an account.