MiSTer FPGA Forum

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)

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

Awesome! Will check this out later, thank you!

Some great tracks here!

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*

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

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

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

Thanks!