ProTracker 2

Submitted by Jarek on Sun, 2006-04-23 22:59. Utility

Title image:

Publisher:

Persona

Author:

BZYK

Artist:

Steven Pick

Musician:

The demo songs that were released were copied from Amiga demo called Impact (I was facinated by Amiga music at the time of writing the Protracker for SAM)

Release Year:
1996

Copyrights:
Granted

Disk Image:
protracker.dsk.zip (75.38 KB)

Description:

Music creation software. Similar to E-Tracker in many ways, but prettier and easier to use. It was capable of handling more patterns, more instruments, and (most importantly) more effects which are applied to notes - such as tremolo and portamento.

It appeared on the market relatively late, several years after E-Tracker had gained a virtual monopoly, and never seemed to become heavily used. It also shipped without a compiler, although ProTracker 2 compiler was written by another programmer a few months later and released on Persona’s Blitz disk magazine.

Trivia:

List of standard ProTracker Effects

Screenshots:

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protracker release

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2006-07-12 20:15.

I wouldn’t mind if you just release the protracker to the public. I believe I still should have the source code somewhere on my old disks, but I haven’t yet tried to even find the disks themselves;-)
I hardly remember I wrote protracker in a Comet assembler.

Jarek (Bzyk) Burczynski

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ProTracker

Submitted by ascii on Thu, 2006-07-13 10:08.

Excellent, thanks.

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Jarek - can you email me at

Submitted by please delete m... on Thu, 2006-07-13 17:06.

Jarek - can you email me at david at proper bastard dot co dot uk please about this?

Thanks

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Just sent you an email

Submitted by Jarek on Fri, 2006-07-14 20:39.

btw. anyone can reach me at: s0246 at poczta dot onet dot pl

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disks

Submitted by Jarek on Sun, 2006-10-15 19:07.

To follow up on the source code subject…

I have managed to find my old sam disks and now I have the source code for the Protracker along with an Amiga .MOD to Protracker converter (it only converts notes, effects and the module(song) structure - not the samples)

Also there are some SAM Coupe utilities, demos and games.

Also there is an unfinished Bomb Jack game source code. I think there are some sprites and backgrounds and the code for the bonus part of the game - nothing too fancy, as it was at semi-advanced stage when I stopped.

Now the question is who’d want it? I have converted the original disks to the .dsk format and have them all here, waiting…

Jarek

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protracker.dsk.zip format?

Submitted by Jarek on Fri, 2006-07-14 20:38.

What format is this .dsk? What do I need to do in order to use it with SimCoupe? I’ve tried several SAM .dsk utilities and none was able to display the list of files from protracker.dsk .

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Extended dsk format

Submitted by ascii on Sun, 2006-07-16 15:23.

It’s an extended dsk (i.e. a perfect image which includes the protection features of the original floppy disk) which can be read by SimCoupe version 1.0 or later (not yet quite released, but the latest CVS version works) or the Windows/PC disk tools which go with it.

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Manual

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2008-07-29 18:36.

Is there a manual for Pro Tracker available?

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Re: Manual

Submitted by ascii on Thu, 2008-07-31 21:19.

No, sorry, I don’t think a manual was ever written - or at least, not in English. I do remember DL trying to persuade me to write one, but at the time the “compiler” was the bigger need so I ended up writing that.

It did come with a list of keyboard shortcuts, although I can no longer find a copy of that either. If I get time I’ll see if I can remember what they all are and write it up.

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Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2008-08-19 20:03.

I’m not able to move the cursor at all. How can one get it working in SimCoupe? Enabling mouse interface didn’t do anything, nor using joysticks.

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