Subject: Hivelytracker

From: shd
Date: Sat Dec 9 12:30:58 2006

To: UADE-User-discussion
There is a new Amiga player called Hivelytracker, see
http://www.petergordon.org.uk/files/HT10.LHA

I was asked to port a player for uade. From the looks of the source, Hivelytracker was not designed to be a classic A500 player, instead it uses 16-bit samples and such. And therefore it doesn't make much sense to port it for uade. See the earlier discussion about Fasttracker &amp; other PC trackers.

Instead, someone should do a native port for UNIXes. An XMMS or Audacious plugin would probably take only a day. The only obstacle I can see is that license terms for the replayer were not specified in the distribution.

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From: amadeus
Date: Sun Dec 10 15:34:20 2006

To: UADE-User-discussion
According to the info file
[url]http://www.petergordon.org.uk/readme.php?file=files/HT10.NFO[/url]

is it based on AHX and only works on Amiga OS4...

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From: spotUP
Date: Sat Jan 6 05:57:14 2007

To: UADE-User-discussion
wrong. the replayer source is very portable. plugins exists for many players already. the source is available in the hivelytracker archive. check out www.hivelytracker.com for more info. since the 1.2 release, hively tracker is also available for 68k amigas!

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From: mld/uade team
Date: Sat Jan 6 12:05:16 2007

To: UADE-User-discussion
hmmh, just glanced at the replayer src coming with Buzz OS3 replayer. Kind of a AHXnextgen, right?

I agree with SHD, I guess the main problem is the use of 16bit/ahi.device to have an uade rplayer. I don't think it's a good idea to downsample to 8bit or do 14bit tricks just for the sake of having support.

However porting it to Audacious or XMMS would be already easy, since there seems to be already an sdl unix port.

mld

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From: spotUP
Date: Tue Jan 16 03:30:17 2007

To: UADE-User-discussion
yepp, hivelytracker imports and saves ahx tunes. it also adds some stuff in it's own format, multichannel, multiple commands per note, ringmodulation etc etc.
including it in uade might not be such a good idea no, as it's 16bit.