Amiga Music Preservation - Forum
Amiga Music Preservation => Announcements => Topic started by: Asle on January 01, 2022, 09:08:18
-
Dear readers,
And here we are, once again ! It's a new year that starts today.
So to everyone; in the name of the AMP team; I wish you all the best for 2022.
Once again, 2021 was barely different than 2020 - which was strange, in many ways !
As usual, I would thank everyone who has sent us information and/or material to enrich the collection. We saw once again a steady flow of material this past year. Many people, again , reached out ! and that's really appreciated.
Should anyone wishes to upload stuff (http://"https://amp.dascene.net/upload/"), please make sure it has clear authorship (add a text file if not) !
News-wise, 2021 was mostly uneventful for AMP. Curt Cool was still the upload beast we know and love, and Monty did some fine-tuning server wise.
Some figures:
new musics : 3.585
updated musics : 230
new author : 365
removed author (merge/fix/etc.) : 15
updated author : 377
Be safe.
The AMP team
-
Hello mighty upholders of the nostalgic modules! Does there exist any tracker for Android that can digests xms mods, etc? Help me! Thank you!
-
zxtune plays most common module formats and emulates some chip hardware formats like c64's SID and Sega Mega Drive's yamaha YM2612
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.zxtune&hl=en_AU&gl=US (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.zxtune&hl=en_AU&gl=US)
Plus you can browse AMP with it
-----edit-----
facepalm, here's me not reading properly.
- Sunvox (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nightradio.sunvox&hl=en_AU&gl=US) can open .MOD and .XM modules, but it's as much a modular audio synthesis tool as it is a tracker. Can't export to MOD or XM though, only to its native SVOX module format.
- There's also an unofficial and maybe unsupported? port of MilkyTracker (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.milkytracker.sdl&hl=en_AU&gl=US) for Android. it's outdated, throws a bunch of errors when you first run it on later versions of Android, but it seems to work normally for me. your mileage may vary.
Not a lot of android-native options - trackers are VERY keyboard-centric so the touchscreen is a big disincentive. That said, if you get yerself a bluetooth keyboard (i recommend rii's mini bluetooth ones. they've got nice clicky buttons instead of rubber calculator-style ones. A mechanical keyboard it ain't, but) then you can mess around with emulating and using a tracker the way the good lord intended:
- If you're *nixy, you can download termux off f-droid.org (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.termux/) and a vnc server (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.realvnc.viewer.android). MilkyTracker is in their x11-apps repo and will maybe be more stable.
- or, you can dive down the wild rabbit hole of android amiga emulators (https://www.pocketgamer.com/android/best-amiga-emulators/) and actually get protracker off aminet (http://aminet.net/package/mus/edit/Protracker3.61)
- or or, you can download one of the Android dosbox ports, magicdosbox (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bruenor.magicbox&hl=en_AU&gl=US) is pretty active and has a free version you can try out. All the classics like fasttracker 2 (https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=13350), screamtracker 3 (https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=13351) etc, you can get off pouet.org. That's what I've been doing. I was too young to have owned an amiga, but now i can carry a 486 around in my pocket.
Thank you for coming to my ted talk.