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From: wdao@girtab.usc.edu (Walter Dao)
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Subject: SEKA ASSEMBLER (= SOUNDTRACKER)
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Date: 21 Oct 90 06:37:49 GMT
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The story of the SEKA Assembler is the same as the one of the SoundTracker. 
At first, it was a Commercial program. Amiga hack groups then soon found out
that it was pretty neat and Fast to use it to write their demos. (instead of 
using the official (and very slow) assembler). But it had some bugs and 
lacked some features. It was then up to them to reverse enginner the prg and 
add the missing feature, fix the bugs, put their names in the prg. 
As I can tell , there are as many versions/updates of the SEKA assembler as
there are versions of the NOISE/SOUND Tracker. 

The SEKA Assembler interface is very basic, mostly each command can be 
accessed by a keystroke (like MERLIN on the c-64) . Not very intuitive.
(but it's like EMACS, once you got all the commands, it's like a second
nature). 


2) By the way, for you people living in the L.A. area, go to the store called 
   Creative Computers. The one in Santa Monica. (the little store), 
   (the one in Hawtorne is much much bigger and has way more 'wares , looks
    better and the people there are pretty dynamic amiga lovers not some 
    old Hag with her pet U2 exiled .) 
  They have in the MUSIC and ART section a few copies of the original
  SOUNDTRACKER V1.0 for sale. (wow !!!! v1.0 what an antique)
  (I wonder if it will work on my NTSC machine). (The "Imported" copy I had 
   just gurued after a selection was made) . 
  ANyway, I am happy with my NoiseTracker (>2.0 soon I heard ...) 


						Walt.