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An experimental overhaul of GoatTracker 2.7x - originally by L. Öörni aka Cadaver / Covert Bitops.

Planned changes are more or less of "cosmetical" nature only; ergo: all your GT2 .SNG files will (hopefully) be fully compatible with this fork.

September 2019 Update: New downloads of experimental builds / sources with current reSID from VICE.

July 2020 Update: New downloads of versions with black background (requested by a fellow scener) of goattrk2 and gt2stereo.

Also the source code is now made public on github: github.com/jansalleine/gt2fork

Why?

After working with GoatTracker for some time I recognized I still always got confused by all the "0"-chars on screen. So I decided to get rid of them. While I was at it, I also tried improving the color palette - which is of course always a matter of taste, but one of my goals with this project is to redo the complete display logic, to make the colorscheme customizable.

The lists

Done

  • Replaced unnecessary "0" chars with "." chars
  • Hardcoded new colorscheme - fiddled with display logic
  • Setup wingw64 buildchain for win32 compiles
  • Probably broken DMC-mode and decimalview ;-)
  • Included current reSID from VICE project

ToDo

  • Redo display logic
  • Make colorscheme customizable
  • Join standard and stereo version
  • Solve QWERTY/QWERTZ keyboard layout compile problems
  • Automagically include datafile executable in build process
  • ...

Help

If for some reason you may like some of the ideas I have for this fork: help - especially in the testing department is highly appreciated. Feel free to send all your wishes and bugs you find to spider@jansalleine.com

If more people are interested in this project I will add the sourcecode as a new project at my github.com account.

Experimental Downloads

Usage at your own risk!!!

2020 july update

Download ZIP (goattrk2 win32 executables only)

Download ZIP (gt2stereo win32 executables only)


2019 september update with current reSID from VICE C64 emulator

Download ZIP (win32 executable only)

Download ZIP (ugly hacked sourcecode)


Old version including GT2 Stereo

Download ZIP (win32 executables only)

Personally, I used this version on my Win 8.1 laptop and Win 7 computer at work without problems so far. But I'm not sure, if I broke DMC-mode and/or decimalview on patterns with those versions, just because I don't use those options myself.

Download ZIP (ugly hacked sourcecode)

© 2024 - Jan Wassermann aka Spider / MYD^SOA^TRSi