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At present, the beta testing team is made up of starpause, L-Tron, and Lazerbeat. As the project expands, it's very possible that Prodigy Tracker will need more beta testers so we'll see soon enough.

On a side note, all the bugs that I recently found while doing preliminary tests on real hardware that weren't present on emulators have been fixed. VRAM is wiped at startup to prevent garbage display, Gamepad 1 is correctly initialized, Color RAM line dots are gone, YM2612 notes don't drop out anymore, and a nasty bug that I just found that caused patterns to be incorrectly loaded under certain circumstances have all been fixed. Prodigy now functions as intended on real hardware and works well on both US and Japanese consoles. Now that these have been taken care of, more real progress can be made.

16-bit tracking is proving to be quite an enjoyable experience so far!

Oh I'm sure someone will get to it when they have spare time.

I found your thesis to be an inspiring read. It is well written, detailed, and has plenty of good sources.

Aside from that, reading this helps give me a clearer picture of some of the things that I can do to help kindle Chipmusic growth. It also helps me understand when the growth boom is likely to take place in the life cycle of Prodigy Tracker. Right now, this is just the spark. But all it takes is a spark.

Thanks for posting your work. I think it's a wonderful contribution to the scene, especially for the intellectual minds of us out there.

There will be MIDI sync yes. But there's going to be more than cross console tracker synchronization. I'm also looking into MIDI controller input and more.

Unfortunately in the original Sega documentation some of the operators were incorrectly mislabeled. So sometimes this detail goes unnoticed when YM2612 software is developed. Which is most likely why operators 2 and 3 were switched like that.

I'm not sure I understand why that value got converted over to 13. Even as a 4 bit value both 2 and 4 fall in the range of the 4 bit maximum which is 15. Is there some other arithmetic going on here that I'm not aware of?

If there's one thing that's important, it's listen to the fans.

Maybe the flashing is a bit much, I'll remove it. I just wanted to see what everyone thought about the animated algorithms.

Usually guys I love feature requests. Now on the oscilloscope, I don't think it's feasible to code an oscilloscope. Seeing as how the YM2612 handles all the synthesis operations in hardware and I can't really read the output like that from within code. Perhaps it's possible to emulate the expected output and then display that but the overhead in coding and processing cycles would probably outweigh the benefits of having one. Thanks guys for the suggestions.

I took the old demo down. I don't want it up anymore. The reason is it's just too far outdated, very barebones/buggy and doesn't represent this project very well.

Serious project related question... is there anyone around here that has a history of epilepsy?