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Just letting people know about a few Protracker utilities I made over the past two weeks. They might be of interest to, like, only a couple of people in the world...but I made them for myself, so if they're useful to anyone else that's a bonus!

PT.Config-XX editor/generator

- edit a Protracker config file (or create one from the default template). Started as a palette editor, then became a palette and VU/Analyser colour editor, then I thought I might as well open up all the other options. Including a bunch that I never understood (and still don't), and some that don't seem to do anything. Handy if you want to tweak options in 8bitbubsy's PT2.3D clone for PC/Mac/Linux, which can read PT.Configs as well as its own protracker.ini but has no Setup screen - and 8bitbubsy has said he won't implement it. Which is fair enough, because it's a load of hassle for very little return. ini and config files need to go in ~/.protracker/ for the clone to read them.Tested in the clone, as well as 2.3D and 2.3E (8bitbubsy's recent update, full of lovely fixes) on Amiga hardware and WinUAE.

Protracker 2.x font

- I wanted ptconfig to have a live preview of palette tweaks, so I made a TTF from the font as it appears in 8bitbubsy's clone source, which in turn is from the PT2.3D asm source. Also added a few more useful characters ("", ', `) and made it monospace, so it might be useful for other stuff.

Protracker 2.3D clone (syphus' fork)

- I forked 8bitbubsy's source for the clone and fixed a bug that was stopping it from handling PT.Configs properly (he's now fixed it on his SVN), and I've detailed the procedure for changing the About screen graphics. If you want to do that. I did. Because I wanted to. For some reason.

AmigaPal

- this is a desktop app for prepping 8bit samples to use in Protracker on Amiga hardware/emulator. Quite handy for some other stuff, like older samplers etc. It's an Electron app, so it's enormous (100MB+) as it's got a Chrome engine wrapped up in it, but it does some handy things. Basically a big GUI wrapper for SoX.

Hope these are of some use/interest to somebody out there!

Peace,

syphus / Up Rough

come on mate, it's supposed to be difficult to Pro-Track! now everybody is gonna start doing it!

great work syphus!

Thanks ps! Sorry h0ff! Well that file downloader tries to give the configs some whack auto-sensed file extension, so maybe that'll put some people off...

ProTrackin'

Nice, Saga Musix! Is that the TFF? Is a version with different vertical spacing required for this sort of thing? (I'm not great with typography, so I don't know how the metrics are worked out)

"[...] and I've detailed the procedure for changing the About screen graphics. If you want to do that. I did. Because I wanted to. For some reason."
FeelsBadMan

Haha sorry, that sounded worse than I meant it to. The reason is that I always hack trackers to display my ugly-ass Syphus tag \o/

Exhibit B:

syphus, yes, that's the TTF. :) I'm not very knowledgeable of the whole font business either, OpenMPT simply bases the pattern font size on the dimensions of the letter "W" as measured by Windows itself. So maybe the bounding boxes of the glyphs are bigger than needed for some reason?

Yes, they're probably 8x8, while the font is only 6x5. I'll fix that - might make letter-spacing more consistent across different renderers.

superb! <3 Thanx for that Syphus!
Added another idea @ github issues. ;)

Good idea Virgill - I'll respond over there!

Saga Musix Please add this skin to the next OpenMPT :P Or send me a cfg file.

daXX: I might add the colour scheme to the 60+ new colour schemes in OpenMPT 1.27. :)
For now the colour scheme is here: ftp://ftp.untergrund.net/users/sagamusix/openmpt/colors/ProTracker.mptcolor (load through Display settings in OpenMPT)
In the same dialog you can specify the TTF by syphus to be used as a pattern font.

Note that for FT2 fans there is also Why Colors? for OpenMPT ;)

FWIW, this is my color scheme in MPT :)

tomaes: Looks neat, if you export it as an .mptcolor file I might add it to the presets in 1.27 ;)

Saga, here it is:

Thanks! Any particular name you'd like to choose for the scheme or will "tomaes" do? :D

I had it indeed saved as tomaes.mptcolor :)

(for anyone wondering: the font is Consolas, 8pt)

Thanks for the tools. Much appreciated.