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PC Players / Re: PPPlay 0.1.3 released, testers needed
« on: December 22, 2018, 18:50:43 »
Yes, at least this song sounds good now.
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PC Players / Re: PPPlay 0.1.3 released, testers needed
« on: December 22, 2018, 03:06:48 »
I found a track which does not play in your player. An extremely minimalistic one, using one sine wave as sample in several instruments with some polyphony.
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PC Players / Re: PPPlay 0.1.3 released, testers needed
« on: October 25, 2018, 09:38:43 »
Works well. Only the mouse cursor looks suspicious... But I like the "evaporation" visualizer in the background.
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PC Players / Re: PPPlay 0.1.3 released, testers needed
« on: October 24, 2018, 19:46:11 »
Indeed, no easy success; a CMake configuration of "MSYS Makefiles" prepared necessary build files, but the compilation aborted soon, missing quite everything related to archive, compression, and hash functions.
No pressure. I can open issues in your github project when you are ready for it.
No pressure. I can open issues in your github project when you are ready for it.
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PC Players / Re: PPPlay 0.1.3 released, testers needed
« on: October 24, 2018, 16:18:34 »
I have an MSYS2/MinGW setup (media-autobuild_suite), I will try if it passes GCC 7.3 (MinGW32) or 8.2 (MinGW64).
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Tracking / Bug/feature/taste? S3M Offset without new note
« on: October 24, 2018, 15:23:38 »
Hi.
A long, long time ago ... when there were landline mailboxes instead of the Web, and I still used plain DOS without Windows 3.x or 95 even, I already listened to modules by different authors, including the "Members of Mayday" (Silicon Records), and one of their modules was a "HardCore VibeS (RmX)" by Spike.
I noticed that it sounds differently, depending on the player used. The sounds I liked were those produced by an older version of the Cubic player (up to legacy version 2.0α) and by MOD4WIN, playing the module with fast repetitive Jungle break beats. Other players instead (like all more or less modern players today: ModPlug, foobar2000, Winamp, Sonique, VLC, XMPlay, even PPPlay which was presented here a while ago) played and still play this song with boring occasional single percussion hits.
Using the (Open)ModPlug Tracker, I discovered that the patterns in this song contain a lot of Oxy "Set sample offset" effects, but mostly without playing a new note (see attached screenshot crop).
So I read the documentations about the S3M format I could find. In the documentation provided with ScreamTracker 3.21, no exception was mentioned for applying an effect to a continuing note. Other media Wikis were even briefer. The OpenMPT manual instead mentions a remark:
Now, which behaviour is correct?
a) "Millions of flies can't be wrong", and even the final ScreamTracker 3.21 (in DosBox) behaves this way
b) but the author will have had intentions, or he could have omitted these effects
Maybe an early ScreamTracker 3.0 beta behaved differently? ... The truth may be somewhere in between.
The other question is how to "fix" this module to make it sound like it may have been intended to sound, in my humble opinion.
A long, long time ago ... when there were landline mailboxes instead of the Web, and I still used plain DOS without Windows 3.x or 95 even, I already listened to modules by different authors, including the "Members of Mayday" (Silicon Records), and one of their modules was a "HardCore VibeS (RmX)" by Spike.
I noticed that it sounds differently, depending on the player used. The sounds I liked were those produced by an older version of the Cubic player (up to legacy version 2.0α) and by MOD4WIN, playing the module with fast repetitive Jungle break beats. Other players instead (like all more or less modern players today: ModPlug, foobar2000, Winamp, Sonique, VLC, XMPlay, even PPPlay which was presented here a while ago) played and still play this song with boring occasional single percussion hits.
Using the (Open)ModPlug Tracker, I discovered that the patterns in this song contain a lot of Oxy "Set sample offset" effects, but mostly without playing a new note (see attached screenshot crop).
So I read the documentations about the S3M format I could find. In the documentation provided with ScreamTracker 3.21, no exception was mentioned for applying an effect to a continuing note. Other media Wikis were even briefer. The OpenMPT manual instead mentions a remark:
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This effect does not do anything if there is no note in the same pattern cell.
Now, which behaviour is correct?
a) "Millions of flies can't be wrong", and even the final ScreamTracker 3.21 (in DosBox) behaves this way
b) but the author will have had intentions, or he could have omitted these effects
Maybe an early ScreamTracker 3.0 beta behaved differently? ... The truth may be somewhere in between.
The other question is how to "fix" this module to make it sound like it may have been intended to sound, in my humble opinion.
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PC Players / Re: PPPlay 0.1.3 released, testers needed
« on: October 24, 2018, 13:38:00 »
A cutie, nice retro style (DOS font in Windows GUI). Plays the few modules I tested without big surprises. Unfortunately, the announced "original players' behaviour" was not what I hoped for (ignores offset zero like all modern players).
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Help me find that... / Re: Searching '90s rave nostalgia
« on: October 24, 2018, 11:27:32 »
Zombies never really die...
I was able to partially restore a very old harddisk where I found an archive, and I could read at least some description files.
Some of the missing modules were made by Alexander Koch (Falter / Liquid Cage · PFM · FCORave).
In the meantime I discovered the "Nectarine" scene music web radio (they also have a Discord server) and other Amiga demo scene music archives. I'll keep digging...
I was able to partially restore a very old harddisk where I found an archive, and I could read at least some description files.
Some of the missing modules were made by Alexander Koch (Falter / Liquid Cage · PFM · FCORave).
In the meantime I discovered the "Nectarine" scene music web radio (they also have a Discord server) and other Amiga demo scene music archives. I'll keep digging...
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Help me find that... / Re: Searching '90s rave nostalgia
« on: May 24, 2014, 17:05:53 »Need to find out the best way of uploading it quickly though
Quickly? ...
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Help me find that... / Re: Searching '90s rave nostalgia
« on: May 02, 2014, 15:14:10 »
Thank you, I will certainly try. I am quite certain I can do that in german.
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