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21.Mar.2024



Article series: The history of software soundtrackers (parts 1-3)
30 years ago, Xavier Borderie had fun making music on his Amiga with the help of Protracker. This was the reason for him to take a look behind the scenes in a series of articles and write about those who made soundtracking possible:

Soundtracker origins, part 1: Where in the World is Karsten Obarski?
Here the author wants to find out when the way music is composed made the leap from a physical hardware product to a software product. Who was the first person to come up with the programming of this interface? Is it really Karsten Obarski, the father of The Ultimate Soundtracker?

Soundtracker origins, part 2: Welcome to Turrican, aah hahahaha
Karsten Obarski apparently got the inspiration for "The Ultimate Soundtracker" from a tool called SoundMonitor, which the developer and musician Chris Hülsbeck released for the Commodore 64 in 1986 - a year before Obarski's own Ultimate Soundtracker. Hülsbeck was 18 years old at the time. Was this the beginning of software trackers?

Soundtracker origins, part 3: Facing a stone mountain
The history of software sound trackers seems to go back even further: in the second of the series, Chris Hülsbeck told the author that he remembers using Steinberg's MIDI Multitrack Sequencer tool on the Commodore 64 computer, around the time he was writing his own tool, Soundmonitor.

Soundtracker Origins, interlude: The coders behind the Cambrian explosion
In this somewhat off-topic article, Xavier Borderie spoke to the developers of the various Soundtracker clones, including the developers of Protracker and NoiseTracker. (dr)

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17.Mar.2024



PDF manual: DOS documentation in the works
At the title link on GitHub Thomas 'ThoR' Richter, one of the developers of AmigaOS 3.2, has started work on a PDF manual for the dos.library in the style of the Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manuals. (snx)

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16.Mar.2024



YouTube: Recording of the PiStorm-presentation at FOSDEM 2024
Andrew "LinuxJedi" Hutchings, full-time CCO for the MySQL alternative MariaDB Foundation, is known as a developer of hardware and software for the Amiga. At FOSDEM 2024, an open source developer conference held on March 3rd to 4th, 2024, in Brussels, Belgium, Hutchings gave a presentation on "PiStorm - The evolution of an open source Amiga accelerator", which demonstrates the modification of the Raspberry Pi mini motherboard as an Amiga turbo card and is available on YouTube.

In the presentation, Hutchings demonstrates the use of the PiStorm32-Lite on his Amiga 1200 and talks about this and other topics:
  • What the PiStorm really is, both as hardware and a community
  • The history of the project, including the bumps along the road
  • Directions that is intended to take the project in the future
  • A demonstration of what PiStorm is capable of
The recording can be accessed via the title link. (nba)

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16.Mar.2024



Video tutorial: Parallax scrolling in AMOS
Following on from the screens tutorials (1, 2, 3), retro and Amiga fan 'Yawning Angel' shows how to achieve parallax scrolling with the dual playfild command in the latest part of his tutorial series. (dr)

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