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Music database / '(Premiere)intro' by Spaceman
« on: October 12, 2010, 21:21:38 »
So I don't know why this is listed as a MOD.  I've never seen anything less a MOD file (mentioning no Jason Pages).

It looks like a database error, considering that ModInfo produces junk output.

Can anyone tell what format this is?  (It certainly isn't a compressed one.)

EDIT: Ooh, I'm a junior member now.
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New features / Composer websites
« on: February 24, 2010, 13:39:05 »
Reading Dr. Awesome's interview reminded me - would it be possible to add an extra field to the composers database for personal websites?  Also, I see deus-ex provides links in the data posted to the 'musicians' forum...
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Requests / Jason Page
« on: February 20, 2010, 19:21:40 »
Hi,

I've been spending a lot of my spare time recently decoding the so-called 'Jason Page' tracker format used in Fire and Ice.  Unfortunately, I only had access to the Archimedes conversion of the game's internal playroutine, in ARM assembler, and as I got deeper in it became more and more apparent that the person who did the conversion didn't know the first thing about what he was doing or the relative properties of PC, Amiga and Acorn sound architecture.

So, while I do now have a converter program that produces music and a fairly thorough understanding of how the format is structured and how it is read, I am aware that the results, while faithful to the Acorn version, are completely different from the original one.

I'm asking because I'd like to know if anyone has any information on this format (or, indeed, a way to ask Jason himself about it) so that I could make my conversion a good deal more faithful.  I couldn't find anything on Exotica (there's a page for it, but it's blank), but I hope I'm not the only person who knows anything about this format - the only alternative would be to get a look at the Amiga binary, and I can only read ARM assembler!
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Music Request / Sequence problems
« on: November 01, 2009, 12:55:10 »
Take the following Cutcreator tune:

http://www.amp.dascene.net/analyzer2.php?idx=12277

This exhibits a problem I've seen on a few other tunes too, such as some of Nuke's 'Universe' compilations.  The length-of-sequence byte appears to be too large.  This results in the zero padding beyond the end of the sequence being counted as part of it, and interpreted by the player as an order to play pattern 0 nine times over.  Any idea what causes this problem?  I assume it's the result of a faulty ripping program somewhere along the line...

Another, unrelated, quick question: What was the original Ghosts and Goblins tune?  Searching for 'ghost' turns up two pages of remixes!
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Music Request / thomsong#
« on: October 16, 2009, 22:49:11 »
OK, I'm wondering about the author of four ProTracker files I have here: 'thomsong1', 'thomsong2', 'thomsong3' and 'thomsong4'.  They certainly sound as if they were written by the same person.  The filenames are, respectively, 'germ', 'claves', 'popcorn' and 'stealth'.  The nature of 'popcorn' should be obvious!

I haven't managed to find any of them on this website.  None of them contain any indication of their authors, so it may have flouted that rule if somebody tried to upload them, but otherwise does anybody know anything about these?
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Support / Feedback / Truncated Falcon track
« on: September 18, 2009, 21:32:35 »
Completely by accident, AMP has just led me to discover a hugely talented artist of whom I was previously completely unaware: Falcon.

Having downloaded a few tracks at random (not having any other way to choose), I'm seriously impressed.  Many thanks for making this stuff available.

Unfortunately, I've just discovered one of the uploads is faulty.  The track is named 'Voices and visions vol.1' (http://amp.dascene.net/downmod.php?index=84109), and is listed as being 1K in size.  The reason for this is that most of the file is missing. :(

Please can this be fixed?
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Music Request / Searching for a ripped Jogeir mod...
« on: September 02, 2009, 15:04:13 »
Hi.  I am purely an Amiga music enthusiast, never having actually owned or used one of the noble machines myself - but I have a large collection of ProTracker songs, and I really enjoy this website and especially finding out more about the authors beyond mysterious names in the sample list!

My principal source of Amiga tunes (until I discovered AMP) was a CD collection supplied with Digital Symphony, a mid-90s tracker for Acorn RISC OS computers.  Sadly many of the files on it are of dubious provenance indeed.  In particular, I would like to know a bit more about a set of two mods which I have reason to believe were composed by Jogeir Liljedahl: 'VDLOVE1' and 'VDLOVE2'.

Obviously these aren't their original names.  They look like they were ripped from some production, and I'd like to find the originals.  'VDLOVE2' I have since identified as 'mystified', but any information about the other one or any knowledge of the source would be appreciated!

Also, I am a fan of Jogeir's work in general - does anyone have any 'hot tips' for particularly good tunes?

Thanks,
Martin
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