Demand for a Native Sega Genesis/Megadrive FM Tracker/Sequencer. (Page 6 of 9)

Thanks for the feature suggestions guys, updated the original post. Those have been in the original design since the start (we discussed a lot of features a few months back), but I forgot to include them here.

Writing the VGM driver in Z80 is one of the toughest jobs Mike is facing right now, so that format is going to take priority over anything else. It is also the only format people are able to easily create their own songs in with VGM Music Maker. This means other formats are not really on the drawing board right now - I appreciate the support though. If this changes I'll let you know.

Boy do I feel guilty.

Sorry everyone for the lack of updates. People that offered to help for some reason stopped replying to my messages and my personal life made turns for the worst, top that with the fact that I came across an awesome tracker for mobile devices which totally killed all my motivation to try developing this (I thought it would be awesome to be able to make FM chiptunes on the go). Ultimately I became discouraged from taking this project on and stopped working on programming stuff in general. Long story short, life sucks. HOWEVER...

Recently I thought about this project and how many people wanted to see it happen. If this project is going to happen at all, it's going to have to be a side project. I just don't have enough free time to do anything anymore, kinda depressing! I actually do get SOME free time, but not enough to fully dedicate all my life to something. SO maybe if I do a little bit here and a little bit there. I was also wanting to put together a GBA game... which all of this really makes me want to get back into coding. So maybe every now and then I can come up with some minor updates or proof of concepts or something. Rome wasn't built in a day. Everyone if there's a lesson to be learned here it's this... if you're going to take on a huge project, do it in byte sized chunks. Ok so maybe there's another lesson to learn... don't ever lean on just one reason for wanting to do something major, lest that reason collapses under all your weight.

I say this goes for Jerk of the Year! award. Lol. The good news? After I move across the USA, I might have a lot more time for this. Disclaimer : Take this project with a grain of salt from now on. I don't want to break any more hearts.

Edit: Ok, Time to get off my lazy rear... or really since I'm on a computer stay on it instead. I'm working on a project skeleton. More progress than I made the last time around. Who knows WHAT this is going to turn into. Now, it's a common programmer's line "Don't reinvent the wheel", so I'm going to ask, if anyone has any ideas for a good sound driver/engine that is tracker friendly that can be used here... now's the time to speak up. Collaboration is welcome, it looks like I got my fire back.

Last edited by CountSymphoniC (Jul 3, 2013 12:33 pm)

I didn't read all of this thread. There's a VGM player being put together right now that may work. I should probably look into it.

GEMS seems a bit too limited, and SMPS I can only find disassembled source code, so it's a programmer's nightmare. The sound driver has to be the most difficult part of the project.

Last edited by CountSymphoniC (Jul 4, 2013 12:25 am)

I've contacted Mike Stamper about collaborating to make a native tracker. He seems pretty interested! This project might just happen after all! It looks like the focus might be on EXPANDING what he has done so far. Either way, progress.

Yes it was Sunvox. The only one I could find.

EDIT: Who thinks that this is how we should do things on the Genesis?

Before we get too excited, this is just the beginning of a GUI. What it might look like. And yes, I realize that in it's current state, there would probably be tile clipping on the sides in it's current state.

Last edited by CountSymphoniC (Jul 4, 2013 7:58 am)

lookin good so far

mmmm I'm pretty sure that a collaborative effort would work better than only one dev doing all the development. Why don't you set up a git repository or something?
We can't blame Delek for being an a$$h0l€ because he don't want to share his code (jia jia jia jia jia!), but there's a lot of people that would love to see this happen and I bet there's a few talented coders here.