Re: Linux Equavalent - Fast Tracker 2

[David Jander <djander@alumnos.utfsm.cl>]

On Thu, 02 Dec 1999, Clive Crous wrote:
>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 ;-)

You say it :-)

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

Wow ! Finally I fond them (one of them ... Vogue)
I'll contact him. In the FT2 page, he says that they are already considering an
open-source release ! So I'll be contacting him, to see if he is alright with
the idea that a couple of guys (who else wants to join ?) take on their project.

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

I thought so ! But maybe this means, they might let someone else continue
develpment.... asking them won't hurt :-)

>>>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.

Yup. Good news. I never did a player, but a XM to MIDI converter (in
Turbo-Pascal :-)

>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.

Exactly the same case as with me. I'm a Borland-Pascal coder who moved to
Linux/C/CPP a while ago, but I'm still faster in Pascal than in C :-)
p2c turned out to be a VERY neat tool !

>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.

I am complaining about linux sound drivers, editors and midi-sequencers.
So I think it's time to do something about it. Sound is still one of the very
underdeveloped items in linux... *sigh !
I'll let you know if I have news from Magnus "Vogue".

regards...

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