Re: How to Create Music for the IIgs

[irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <C7MyJA.H9B@r-node.hub.org> taob@r-node.hub.org writes:
>In article <SKNKWRKS.93May24001636@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu>, Scott Alfter writes...
>> 
>> One idea might be to implement a MOD editor as an NDA.  There'd be two
>> advantages to this approach:
>> 
>> 1) no need to write MOD-player code--just fire up the NDA inside the
>>    MOD player of your choice
>> 2) convenience--edit a MOD, save it, load it into the player, and test
>>    your work
>
>    Having a no-frills MOD player as an NDA would be a neat idea too. 
>Something like ShellPlay with a nice NDA interface wrapped around it. 
>Tim Meekins has said in the past that he originally intended
>soniqTRACKER to be a full MOD player and editor, and I'm eagerly looking
>forward to that.

Cool idea on the NDA front.  As for sonqiTracker, let me say that a far better
use of Tim's time would be either a better ImageQuant (if you wanna see decent
GIFs on the GS, beg him to hurry this up) or a better GSH.

Ian, who of course isn't biased about MOD players since he's now out of the
business.



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