Art of Noise Amiga Tracker (download + howto)

[bsp]

Hi,

I recently bought a MiSTer FPGA system and took the opportunity to run my old Amiga (1200) tracker called "Art of Noise":
artofnoise-09Oct2021.7z

Art of Noise is a 4ch / 8ch tracker (developed in 1993-1996) that is compatible with Soundtracker / Protracker modules but also supports wavetable playback, "complex" arpeggios, a rudimentary FM synthesizer, a drum-sequencer, and adds a lot of instrument slots and player commands while still retaining the 4 bytes per channel / 1024 byte "MOD" like pattern size "format".

In this archive you'll find:

• two versions of the program (the original shareware release and the public domain release, both v1.9)
• lots of modules
• the source code (at least the bits that survived)

Installation:

1. install MiSTer_share.lha in your workbench and mount the SHARE: drive
2. extract this archive and copy it to SHARE:artofnoise-09Oct2021/ (e.g. via MobaXterm on Windows)
3. on Amiga, run "Assign AON: SHARE:artofnoise-09Oct2021/artofnoise" (add this to your startup-sequence)
4. copy the AON font dir and info file from AON:fonts/ to Fonts:
5. reboot the Amiga/MiSTer and hold ctrl-d to abort the startup-sequence
6. run AON:aon
7. increase the mix rate to 27000Hz (for 8 channel mods, default is 15000Hz). It's the last option in the 4th pulldown menu ("Kanäle" / Channels).

Note: For some reason the program may crash (software failure) when run from Workbench. This does not happen in my UAE WB but it's probably my fault because I did something stupid Aborting the startup-sequence makes it run on MiSTer w/o issues (tested with kick 3.0, AGA, 2MB chip, 8MB fast).

The sound quality on the MiSTer (Minimig core but also all the others) is fantastic (using the I/O board).
Cheers to everyone who helped to make this happen, it's an incredible feat !

~bsp, October 9th 2021

(from the readme.txt)

[limi]

Thank you for making this, and for making it available with source code!

[ByteMavericks]

Awesome! Will check this out later, thank you!

[limi]

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Some great tracks here!

[bsp]

Thanks, glad you like it !

I have to add that the info about having to abort the startup sequence is wrong: AON works fine in the (MiSTer / 3.0) workbench.

What I probably did wrong earlier was that I tried to launch the exe from DOpus (probably tried to "execute" it as a shell script ).

p.s. just finished a nice retro-meeting with an old Amiga demoscene friend of mine, we had _a lot_ of fun with the MiSTer ! so *awesome*

[LamerDeluxe]

That is really cool! I have no idea how I didn't know it existed.

[NegSol]

Very nice! I will give it a go very soon. :

[matt_R/Asylum]

Really keen to give this a go, see what the wavetable and arps are like not to mention digging into the bundled mods.

Thanks!