Re: MED, OctaMED, Protracker

[aw133@lafn.org (James Poore)]

In a previous article, scraft@bigpapa.nothinbut.net () says:

>In article <i186289@pro-palmtree.cts.com>, James Poore wrote:
>>I have Beatbox (not too good).  Protracker would probably play a specific
>>music file system called protracks or something like that.  Protracks are
>>(running from memory here) is an updated music system from noisetracker,
>>having more info in the file for timing, special effects, etc.  MED from
>>memory again, is a MOD editor, for Amiga type MOD files.  OctaMed might be
>>the same thing except expanded for 8 channels...Amiga mods generally have
>>only 4 when converted to use on the GS.
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>Are you high?  BeatBox is "not too good"?!  It is one of the *best*
>programs written for the IIGS, ever.  And especially so once you 
>consider it was written part-time and is only a beta.  And have you
>ever run a .MOD song and then quit the application?  The song still
>plays!  While in the Finder!  Come on.  When you have 64k (~60k really)
>of DOCRAM and playing a 6-voice song totalling 400k and there are
>no skips/stutters/pauses and the Finder still works on a 2.8MHz 
>pseudo-16-bit-CPU, now *that* is programming!  :)
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>The MED song format is more flexible than MOD, ie it supports
>a larger range of special music effects for samples (hold notes
>or somesuch), and it much harder to do given the inherent IIGS
>"stock" difficulties playing large intricate songs.  MED has only
>gotten popular on the Amiga, while MOD is still going strong for
>all platforms (kinda a lowest common denominator of song formats).
>
>What the hell, I might as well share.  Everyone FTP to
>ftp.cdrom.com in the pub/demos directory and look for the mod
>directory (there should be one in incoming/songs or something
>like that).  There are new MODs to be had almost every day if you
>look.  I just wish we could make them on the IIGS....
>
>-- 
>Respect for the Classics:  IntellivisionTurboGrafx ||"If I came back as a
>TurboExpressApple][Amiga1000Atari5200Atari7800Lynx || Dolphin, would you
>                                                   || listen to me then?"
>Kid (scraft@bigpapa.nothinbut.net)                 ||       - O{+>
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I still prefer Shellplay on GNO/ME as one of the best

Jim

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                          also
jpoore@Pro-Palmtree.cts.com