chipchampion

Battle of the Bits just had our first 1 hour compo with version 1.0, hopefully the first of many! The only problems I had was one crash (which I am unable to replicate). And also, the keyboard stopped updating to the correct notes relative to the waveform for each instrument on the Track field, I had to toggle to the Instrument field. (I haven't been able to replicate this either when reopening the file)

I've discovered that the pattern thing was more user error. So song playback will halt once the end of a pattern is reached if there is no goto. Myself (and probably most tracker users) would assume things would just loop automatically and that goto is more a function of not returning to the first pattern. I also managed to figure out how to make .bins with the help of b00daw (the legend).

Greetings palfriend! I hail from a music creation and competition website called http://battleofthebits.org/and I'm sure your new tool will make many of our members happy and result in quite a lot of new 2600 music! I personally have been aching for a 2600 tracker for YEARS, and am very happy that this is now a reality. ^_^ Some questions and bug reports: *Naming instruments crashes the program on my machine (Win7) *Song playback does not work if patterns are not equal for each channel. Is this intended? *Furthermore, the "goto" function does not work properly unless it is mirrored at the same place in the sequence on each channel. I would assume this is not intended if you have the ability to have them separate on each channel in the first place. *Do you intend to add a .bin export for 2600 emulators? That is all I have for now, but I'll be sure to get back to you if I find anything else. Anyways, great work! *Edit// And here is a showcase of some 2600 tunes made for BotB: http://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/Fire+of+Shibuya/12108/ http://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/The+Year+2014-A/11996/ http://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/Zombified+Zombie+Bones/1818/ http://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/Oil/12071/ http://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/Octahedric+Speedrave/16589/