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I've joined the ASMA team to update the website, which has been dormant and without updates for quite some years. The website has been completely restructured and updated and now offers a powerful search, an up-to-date SAP player in your browser, and exports of SAP files to different formats. More features and improvements are added continuously.
Visit http://asma.atari.org/ and dig into the sounds of the Atari and join the AtariAge thread to receive detailed updates, post your songs for the archive, or report issues.
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After a long break, the following three parts of the tutorial series on Programming the Atari XL/XE are now available. This time you learn how to use POKEY to create sound effects, include Raster Music Tracker (RMT) music into your code, and obtain RMT modules from the Atari Sound Music Archive. A big thanks to Tim Tennyson, who motivated me to get back into creating the tutorials. Now that I have a proper setup with Open Broadcast Studio, it's enjoyable again.
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Both packs contain a disk image in MyDos format with all Atari 8-bit releases of Silly Venture 2k20+1 Summer Edition and Silly Venture 2k21 Winter Edition. They include a results viewer, which also acts as a menu where you can directly start all releases and read the readmes. The menu remains memory resident, so you don't have to load it again every time. This makes watching the graphics entries and listening to the music entries much more fun, esp. on a real machine. These are the controls for the menu:
- Pressing any key while loading the menu takes you to the DOS shell.
- Pressing RESET in the menu performs a cold start.
- Pressing RESET in while a release is running returns to the menu, if possible.
- Further controls are displayed in the menu itself.
The downloads come with a pre-configured Altirra, which you can run with the required settings by simply clicking the "SillyPack2k20_1SE.bat" or "SillyPack2k21WE.bat" file.
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- Joomla access now automatically redirects from "htttp://" to "https://"
- A global Demozoo link has been added to the navigation area
- Demozoo Links have been added for all productions
- Missing "Chick OnChips" release has been added to productions
- Productions are sorted and exported automatically when saving the "productions.ods" database
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This excellent VCS music was created by Bart Wasil (BeWu) for the Atari VCS music competition at Silly Venture 2k22 SE in Gdansk. Turning it into a ROM file was an unexpected challenge, as the TIATracker module has 126 patterns and exceeds the 4k limit for a single ROM bank. So, I had to split the source by hand and create an 8k bank-switched ROM. The tune ranked a well-deserved 1st place in the competition and is one of the best VCS pieces of music ever made. I am delighted to have been part of the release and to see what can be done with TIATracker. Here's a comment from Jérémie Glafouk on the inner workings of the song "Very clever use of only two channels with such a rich sound (drums + bass + chords + melody). He is using percussion for arpeggios. The 'double' bass using two instruments (out of only seven possible instruments in TIATracker) is also brilliant and works well. And the mixing is perfect with the only two channels."
I've also used the occasion to recompile Glafouk's "Snake It" song with the most recent TIATracker player and uploaded it. It ranked 2nd place in the Silly Venture 2020+1 SE in Gdansk.
The downloads of the modules, the binaries, and the source are available in the Atari 2600 / Demos section.