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MilkyTracker News / Re: Port round-up
« on: June 06, 2008, 09:08:40 »Install Linux
Either that (linux should indeed be the faster option on a G3) or at least switch to 10.2.
10.1 was the slowest official version of Mac OS X.
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Either that (linux should indeed be the faster option on a G3) or at least switch to 10.2.
10.1 was the slowest official version of Mac OS X.
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MilkyTracker Feature Requests / Re: XI 2 MID
« on: June 06, 2008, 08:56:15 »
XI? XI is the instrument file format. Do you mean XM? XM to MIDI converters are already available.
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Project / Coder's Corner / Re: FT2 source code
« on: May 27, 2008, 00:07:43 »
It was never published, but some scene members got hold of it, that's all I know. You're right, it's BP7 with lots of assembler, Triton somehow managed to write their own protected mode dos extender, so IMO it's not much Pascal code at all.
Judging from the huge amount of amazingly insane bugs FT2 had the source code must be a total mess
Judging from the huge amount of amazingly insane bugs FT2 had the source code must be a total mess
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The Lobby / Re: XM vs IT
« on: May 25, 2008, 18:43:51 »
I thought this thread was about Impulse Tracker and FastTracker II.
Renoise can also import XM/IT/MOD files and you can add plenty of digital fx but I guess that's not the point
Renoise can also import XM/IT/MOD files and you can add plenty of digital fx but I guess that's not the point
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The Lobby / Re: XM vs IT
« on: May 25, 2008, 17:13:05 »
You guys are always talking about IT "filters" but as a matter of fact there is only one type of filter in IT. And that's a low pass resonant filter. There is no IT "filters" or whatever, it really sounds like IT had a crazy bunch of them. I just wanted to get this straight.
Another word about hardware support:
At the time IT introduced virtual channels with NNAs (and later the low pass filter) the de-facto scene standard sound card was still the GUS and many, many composers had one. But all the fancy IT features were only available with software mixing and I think that's one reason why a lot of people did stick to FT2 and XM.
Another word about hardware support:
At the time IT introduced virtual channels with NNAs (and later the low pass filter) the de-facto scene standard sound card was still the GUS and many, many composers had one. But all the fancy IT features were only available with software mixing and I think that's one reason why a lot of people did stick to FT2 and XM.
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Wanted: Music for Projects / Re: Retro Exploration Game - Mod's Needed
« on: May 17, 2008, 11:14:26 »
Looks like a cool game though 
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The Lobby / Re: XM vs IT
« on: May 17, 2008, 11:05:53 »Oh wow, like this topic still didn't surface too often without doing it on purpose..
Dunno what .IT would look like now if it wasn't for all the features introduced in .XM but its development continued for longer so it's only natural .IT is the superior format. Too bad there's no decent tracker for working with it.
I second that. The early versions of IT were just an improved ST3, and for a very long time XM was still the format with more features. As time went by IT took over the features from FT2 and introduced new features as well.
I guess Triton was just too busy programming games at that time
FT2 was the first tracker to really leap ahead from the old regular module formats which only offered samples without any fancy instrument attributes like envelopes, auto-vibrato etc.
Also FT2 had a way more professional look and it takes way more time to code an FT2 style GUI than a simple text mode interface.