Turbochip - 7-channel YM+DMA replay

[FedePede04]

junosix : nice progress you are making...

DMA : great music piece you have done it..

[evil]

The odd thing is that my Mac shows < 20% total CPU usage when Hatari is stuttering. Still, must be something on my setup.

The stuttering does seem to settle down eventually after the first screen of playback.

Old Hatari releases uses SDL 1, which have very poor performance on macOS, especially with retina displays.
If you download v2.1 (http://download.tuxfamily.org/hatari/2.1.0/) it have have SDL2. Or you can try the very latest build from current source: https://troed.ddns.net/d/b90229b625/

Hopefully that's the problem.

Hatari 2.1 runs without any problem on my 8 year old Macbook Pro or 10 year old Mac Pro

[yerzmyey]

It's about a third of a VBL at the moment but that's because I haven't quite got my head around using addx in addition to swap, which will bring the VBL time down a bit then that could be brought down even more by going mono or 25kHz. It's sounding good enough now that I think I want to take it down the quality route rather than possibly compromising the sound for CPU performance.

You might do it optional / switchable. One might need a song for his game/demo, another dude might just want to make some music with his STE.

The project is excellent anywayz.

[junosix]

Made a music demo disk for easy enjoyment of the current TC tunes. (@dma - extended 'Faerie' by adding the keychange that I just can't help hearing in my head whenever I listen to it - hope you don't mind and that I haven't bastardised it by doing so!)

EDIT - v2, cleared up a couple of graphics errors and a stupid key input oversight, adjusted the volume of one of the tracks to match the others, and it now also works on 512KB machines.

[dhedberg]

Ah, cute! Love the sounds produced by your player!

[dma]

@junosix : Ah, a music-disk is indeed a nice way to promote your tracker.

Now i can hear what you were imagining as key change on my tune, cool.

[utz]

Just discovered this fantastic project. Thanks a ton @junosix, this might just be enough of an enticement to get me back into making ST(e) music.
Love the demo disk as well.

[dhedberg]

Just discovered this fantastic project. Thanks a ton @junosix, this might just be enough of an enticement to get me back into making ST(e) music.
Love the demo disk as well.

Please do! We need more people!

[MiggyMog]

Any update on this tracker now?

[junosix]

0.48 is still the current version (therefore still has the 'internal developer tool' vibe to the user interface, but I did use it to create the music for Droid Special Edition recently: https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.p ... 64#p408664).

[matt]

Current version is working perfectly for me, too, no issues.