Re: SAM Protracker loading problem

[Balor Price]

Will do.  I'm away from my SimCoupe PC for an evening so it's coming on 
Sunday.

The only thing I did differently from your test was that my blank disks 
sometimes don't have SAMDOS on them, they're totally blank except for 
the mod file itself.

Howard


On 15/06/2013 11:33, Stefan Drissen wrote:
You can email me your disk and I'll see if I can make anything of it.

Op 15 jun. 2013 om 02:10 heeft Balor Price <toberm...@cookingcircle.co.uk> het 
volgende geschreven:

Stefan, yes.

That's got it.  These load fine, thank you.  Does this mean I should have been 
using just the prescribed data disks to save all along?  In which case I can 
confirm you can use any disks just as long as you have booted with MasterDOS...?

PS Another late night post - dunno what's wrong with me these days!

On 14/06/2013 06:28, Stefan Drissen wrote:
I uploaded the protracker data disk to WoS:
http://www.worldofsam.org/files/active/0/pro%20tracker%20-%20data.dsk -

Do these load correctly? If so then your saved files may have an issue.
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Subject: Re: SAM Protracker loading problem

On 13/06/2013 23:08, Andrew Collier wrote:
On 13 Jun 2013, at 19:03, Balor Price <toberm...@cookingcircle.co.uk>
wrote:
Hi everyone

Haylp!  Has anyone had experience of using Protracker with SimCoupe here?
I'm trying to make some sweet music (not with ETracker) and finding the
loading option is broken, crippled or otherwise.
Hi Howard,

I've used ProTracker fairly extensively in Sim Coupe without problems.

I haven't needed to boot MasterDOS first or anything like that. I just
boot the ProTracker disk, let it load to the menu screen, then switch disk
for the files I want to load. In the menu select Disk Op (or ctrl-shift-D)
and it should show a directory listing, then double-tap space on one of the
files and it should load it.
What exactly does is it doing, or not doing, when it fails to load one of
your files?
Andrew


Thanks both,

That's odd.  That's pretty much exactly what I was doing.  I've managed to
get around it but only by booting to MasterDOS first, then booting
Protracker, then 'inserting' a new SimCoupe disk (ie open from file).

For me there were no errors when I was booting directly from the disk, and
no errors when loading the file.  However when loaded, no samples, ornaments
or song data would display.  Initially I thought I must not be saving
correctly, but testing some old converted disks ended up with the same
problem.  I also redownloaded a fresh copy from World of SAM in case I'd
managed to save to the original app image.  But nothing...

Intriguing.

Howard