Re: Linux Equavalent - Fast Tracker 2

["Clive Crous" <ccrous@shoprite.co.za>]

David Jander :
>>On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Clive Crous wrote:
>>>I ma desperately looking for a linux equivalent of Fast Tracker 2 ( by
triton) or even better, a port of this >>great xm tracker.

The greatest ever ;-)

>>
>>FT2 is surely by far the best tracker I have seen !
>>I had been using FT2 for a long time before I abandoned DOS/Windows and
turned
>>towards linux. I don't have any idea about what happened to the guys from
>>triton. Do you have any e-mail adress ?

What has happenned to triton ? that's easy, check out
http://www.starbreeze.com

>>I would be very interesting in doing a port to linux, although, as I know
FT2
>>is written in Borland-Pascal with tons of assembly code inside (hard to
port !!)
>>Anyway, if there is interest, I'd try to talk the guys from triton into
giving
>>away the sources, or even better, helping in doing this. I don't think
they
>>have any plans for porting it to Window$. They are not the kind of guys
who
>>like the windows platform very much I guess, so ... maybe linux is an
option to
>>them ... who knows ?

If you check out the webpage, you'll see thay've stopped development
completely on FT2 :(

>>
>>Anybody else interested ?

Yes, Yes, and Yes again :-)
I've done a lot of DOS pascal & asm coding in the past including my own
xm/mod/s3m player.
Unfortunately I'm only a newish convert to c and i might be a bit slow
there, but converting pas/asm -> c shouldn't be a problem.
I would love to help with a port, in fact I was planning on writing an
editor myself from scratch using svgalib as the music partner in my demo
group was complaining about the current linux-sound-editors.
so feel free to mail me in this regard.

    Clive Crous