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- Finally, this version of tracker runs on the amiga.
- I happened to have the source of tracker with me that week-end, and my amiga
- less than the usual 300 km far from me.
-
- Astoundingly enough, it took me only 5 hours to bring tracker up to speed and
- running, except for some trivial bugs, and only about twenty lines to change
- in the usual tracker source. Of course, I cheated. Some people may remember
- a quite old project of mine on the amiga... I already had some code for the
- audio.device.
-
- The only drawback was, the source I had with me was a 3.11 version, so the
- binaries included do not benefit from the latest bug-fixes of tracker (and won't
- before I come back home again), but it shouldn't be too hard to compile them
- anew, since the amiga_support.c file fits nicely within the rest of the
- tracker project, provided you have a sas/c compiler. (_main.c isn't provided,
- but i's the standard sas/C _main.c with MAX_ARGS uped from the ridiculous 32
- to 1000 or so...).
- BTW, if you do just that, please do send me the result, so I can update the next
- distribution...
-
- I've tried tracker for some hours and it appears to be mostly stable, but IT
- CAN POSSIBLY GURU FROM TIME TO TIME. Consider this a beta.
-
- By the way, it should be VERY easy to port this tracker release to any
- version of amiga unix... Everything you have to change is amiga-support,
- and basically, what you have to do it use whatever level of control is
- provided on the amiga audio hardware under unix. I hope somebody will do it
- and send it back to me. Thanks !
-
- Marc Espie, november the 20th 1993
-