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From: pcolmer@acorn.co.uk (Philip Colmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Sound Samples
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Date: 11 Mar 91 10:09:05 GMT
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In article <4696@syma.sussex.ac.uk> johny@cogs.susx.ac.uk (Lord Yak Da Hairy) writes:

>You can find SoundTracker/NoiseTracker modules on the following FTP sites:
>
>  ab20.larc.nasa.gov
>& mars.ee.msstate.edu
>
>I'm not sure which directories, although they'll probably be under Amiga
>somewhere.

On ab20.larc.nasa.gov, the directory is
/incoming/amiga/NoiseTracker-Modules

> HOWEVER, despite the facts that Archimedes Tracker is supposed to
>read Amiga SoundTracker files, and that NoiseTracker is supposed to be
>SoundTracker compatible, I haven't been able to get any of them to work. This
>could be a spaggy version of lharc on our Un*x system, though.

I've been using !Spark2 to decode them :-) After loading them into !Tracker,
they play back a treat.

>Anybody created any nice Tracker modules that they'd like to upload to the
>Newcastle server?

I haven't created any, but I am prepared to submit the ones I've taken from
the states to the binaries group when it is created.

--Fil.

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