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Arkos Tracker is a music and sound effect composing tool that runs on a PC or Mac (i.e. it is not a CPC tool), but which can be used to create tunes for Amstrad, MSX and Spectrum computers.
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[[File:At2full-300x251.png|thumb|right|Arkos Tracker on PC]]
  
Arkos Tracker and its tools are built using the .NET framework.
 
  
To run the tools under Linux, you need to install mono then you can run them with "mono <filename>" e.g. "mono AKSToBin.exe Songs/Demo.aks".
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Created by [[Targhan]] from [[Arkos]], '''Arkos Tracker''' is a music and sound effect composing tool that runs on a PC or Mac (i.e. it is not a CPC tool), but which can be used to create tunes for Amstrad, MSX and Spectrum computers.
  
For the tracker itself, it is not yet possible. I attempted to get it to run.
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It is designed to create musics for [[AY| AY-3-8910]] and YM2149F sound chips (compatible variants).
I used the winetricks script to install, "Mono for Windows" and some fonts, but still it doesn't work.
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winetricks mono210
 
winetricks corefonts
 
winetricks tahoma
 
  
If I had been successful, it should have been runnable with "wine ArkosTracker.exe". It needs to be run through Wine, because it talks to some Windows API functions directly.
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== History ==
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* It is the successor of [[STarKos]] which ran on real Amstrad CPC.
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== Versions ==
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* '''Arkos Tracker 1''' and its tools are built using the .NET framework. It is possible to run the tools, but not the Tracker itself, on Linux, using Mono.
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* '''Arkos Tracker 2''' is a rewrite of Arkos Tracker and is available natively for both Windows and Linux. It is written in C++ using the JUCE toolkit.
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* [http://arkostracker.cpcscene.com Arkos Tracker Homepage]
 
* [http://arkostracker.cpcscene.com Arkos Tracker Homepage]
  
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[[Category:CrossDev]] [[Category:Music and sound]]

Latest revision as of 12:45, 11 October 2022

Arkos Tracker on PC


Created by Targhan from Arkos, Arkos Tracker is a music and sound effect composing tool that runs on a PC or Mac (i.e. it is not a CPC tool), but which can be used to create tunes for Amstrad, MSX and Spectrum computers.

It is designed to create musics for AY-3-8910 and YM2149F sound chips (compatible variants).


History

  • It is the successor of STarKos which ran on real Amstrad CPC.


Versions

  • Arkos Tracker 1 and its tools are built using the .NET framework. It is possible to run the tools, but not the Tracker itself, on Linux, using Mono.
  • Arkos Tracker 2 is a rewrite of Arkos Tracker and is available natively for both Windows and Linux. It is written in C++ using the JUCE toolkit.


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