Amiga MOD Packers Described - Fuchs Tracker Described
Anim ripped from Digital Illusion's MotorHead
Yeah :) at least in HTML format !.
Anim ripped from Digital Illusion's MotorHead




  Format name : Fuchs Tracker
Created by : Andreas Fuchs - 1990 (?)

Sources :
*
"Century" game by Claudio Pitrella & Andreas Fuchs

  • I've found this format while sniffing around Aminet archive. The DMS archive contained C source code, and that's there I found names and struct description


  • OFFSET
    SIZE (bytes)
    COMMENT
    0
    Ah
    -
    Eh
    -
    2Eh
    4Eh
    6Eh
    70h
    C0h
    C4h
    C8h
    -
    Ah
    4
    -
    10h*2
    -
    10h*2
    10h*2
    2
    28h*2
    4
    4
    400h*NOP
    -
    - Song Title
    - all sample size (not accurate, calculating is recommended at that point !)
    - size of samples (only 16 samples) each size saved one after the other
    - volumes of the samples
    - loop starts
    - number of pattern to play
    - pattern list (only 40 positions!)
    - "SONG" an ID of some sort I guess :)
    - all pattern data size
    - NOP=Number of pattern. so, here we have each pattern following the other


    So, we get something like that :
    pattern 0 :
  • row 0 | voice 1 | voice 2 | voice 3 | voice 4 |
  • row 1 | voice 1 | voice 2 | voice 3 | voice 4 |
  • row 2 ...
  • row 63| voice 1 | voice 2 | voice 3 | voice 4 |

  • pattern 1 : ...

  • the size of each pattern is 1024 (400h) bytes long.


  • Notes packing (sams as PTK):
         _____byte 1_____   byte2_    _____byte 3_____   byte4_
        /                 /        /                 /      
       0000          0000-00000000  0000          0000-00000000
    
       Upper four    12 bits for    Lower four    Effect command.
       bits of sam-  note period.   bits of sam-
       ple number.                  ple number.
  • effect C (Volume slide) gets dec values here (hex under ptk)


  • Notes Pitchs :
    C-1 to B-1 : 856,808,762,720,678,640,604,570,538,508,480,453
    C-2 to B-2 : 428,404,381,360,339,320,302,285,269,254,240,226
    C-3 to B-3 : 214,202,190,180,170,160,151,143,135,127,120,113


    C8h+400h*NOP
    CCh+400h*NOP
    4
    ?!?
    - "INST" another ID
    - samples datas
     

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