amiga

[lucid rinehead]

someone gave me an amiga 1200; not sure if it works (no boot disk) but i can probably find out. anyway, the point is, does anybody want to swap it for something interesting...not necessarily of any real value, just interesting; i'm open to suggestions. probably nobody wants it but i thought i'd check. oh, and there is a midi interface for it too, + mouse + psu.

[Ruben A]

hmmm... classic.... well, I found an Amiga 500 at work last week... gonna check that too. It was hidden in the basement, together with a monitor and a lot of games... heheh... should try it out. Reminds me of the good old childhood, before electronic music "ruined" my life! hahahahahhaha lol

[lucid rinehead]

i was never an amiga-hed, i had a big gap between my spectrum +2 and getting a 386 so i missed out on c64s and amigas and amstrads and stuff like that.

[Yer_Maw]

Man, i was such an amiga freak. there is a nice wee 8-bit sampler in there, i mean it sounds crap but it all depends what angle your looking at it from and what sort of sounds you want to make. there is also a VERY basic (sin, saw,tri) synth in it which you can play about with and put through outboard gear. Ive got Ocatamed kicking aboot or i think you can download it. But alas game piracy killed it in the end tho, but if anyone can get me a working copy of S.W.O.S. i will be a very happy man indeed.

[deccard]

i was an amiga freak too and octamed kicked ass at that time.
piracy didn´t kill it. it was commodores own fault. they had a wonderful and powerful machine which beat the shit out of any pc
on multimedia(grafix and sound) issues at that time(got also real multitasking).
the A2000 had an open system architecture like pc´s but the videocards were far better than the pc ones for the same price.
in the end commodore slept and put out newer machines far too late.
i mean when the A600/A1200/A3000 came out the machine was already outdated. they couldn´t keep up with the fast pc markt cause they haven´t used their chance when it was there.

[Ruben A]

yeah...good old Octamed...mmmm That´s how it all started!

[deccard]

it all started with the fartgenerator on the c64 :D

[JE:5]

I used to own the commodore Amiga CDTV, the one that looked like a regular cd player and had built in midi ports, although the midi clock was atrocious

Also, I have a pile of old computers sitting in the corner that I have aquired over the last couple of years, an Amiga A 500+, an Atari 1040 st, an Acorn A3000 and an Acorn A3020 (with built in harddrive)

Anyone know where I can get a Mouse for the Acorn and a power supply for the amiga??

[Ruben A]

powersupply...nope, but you can buy a similiar one, maybe?? Or go for a broken Amiga, that comes with all equipment..!!

After I´ve been working with Mac for some time now - and like it, the good old Atari Mega 1 is taking a vacation... but I will never sell it!! It´s so tight and easy - and works all the time!!

[actionjetzon]

yeah, worked a long time with an Amiga 2000 and Octamed. Great time...

[CV]

I used to be the musician in an Amiga demo crew - I used to track MODS into the bootblock of a floppy - under 1024 bytes - it was really good fun - the Amiga mod and demo scene was really cool I reckon , some very talented artists coders and MOD trackers...

I used OCTAMED and ProTracker plus Aegis Sonix intensively - those zere the days

my Octamed was highly customised to the needs of techno tracking using the on boqrd Macro language that Heijo Kinnunen included in the Amiga version of OctaMed

Scream Tracker and Protracker are still MASSIVE on the PC scene - direct descendnts of the Amiga music revolution

http://www.amigascene.com/english/0x0122.html

http://www.maz-sound.com

and here is the Amiga Emulator if you cant find that power supply
http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/

[Ruben A]

cool... but it´s not easy to get started,huh? Searching for the right emulator + kick.rom!!!! Which is very difficult to find..... damn!

ahhhrhrh.
:(

Wings of fury.... must try again!!

[JE:5]

The kick rom is a bitch to find (because it's still under copyright) but it is on the net somewhere because I found it before, don't know if I still have it or not.

I had a really good tracker (soundtracker pro II) on the amiga before it packed in, it allowed you to render all four channels into a sample so you still have another 3 channels left to do other stuff on, and then you could render them again and so on.

[taktik]

there is a new tracker out for pc:
noisetrekker 3. my roommate is a software-developer. he works at ableton. and this is his private-project.
you can download it at
www.noisetrekker.dachiphop.com (http://www.noisetrekker.dachiphop.com )
i´m just using this program for my music.
good messageboard there too!

[CV]

@ taktik - that tracker looks real nice - is your mate going to run the gauntlet and port it to G4 powerpc???????? whoever converts a classic, purist tracker properly to the mac will be an underground hero

[taktik]

He is working on it right now! But it will take a while...
But check out the new site www.renoise.com (http://www.renoise.com)
The Tracker´s new name is Renoise.
Next week you can download there a new version.
It´s getting better and better.

[Will O The Wisp]

Renoise 1.0 has been released!!!!!!!!!!!!

[e-Phreak]

I started making music with an Amiga500 and updated to a A1200 later on. she was equiped with 4GB harddrive and 32MB ram.. those day's Protracker was my whole life!! Last week I found some old discs with modules and tried to convert em on my harddisc. I even found an MOD player for winamp
funky :)

[syt]

I still have 2 or 3 power suplies for amiga 500 and c64 if you still need it you can get one!8-()

[taktik]

Renoise V1.11 is released and in the download-section @
www.renoise.com (http://www.renoise.com)
with many new features...
check out!

@Cristian: sorry! at the moment there won´t be a version for mac-users. mate needs a G4 for this. to expencive....

[mattp]

You might like to see if you can get hold of a package called Music-X.

Music-X was the most fantastic midi sequencer I've ever used.

[jamyna]

Surely you jest?
In my short experience of Music-X I found it to be the most outrageously fiddley and unpredictable sack of shit ever to cross that iron age of sequencing.
No offence old boy, but all that "Set Repeats" malarky just to get something to loop, jeez louise!!

[mattp]

Ahh ... I guess it maybe just me then ....

I used to like the fact you could trigger other tracks from one track using some pattern event.. and then trigger that track from yet another track ..

I too found set repeat abit much I must agree ...

It's been about 10 years since I last used it ... so I could be guilty of looking at it through the old rose-tinted specs ..