Mac OS X Mod (Chiptunes) Player
I'd love to be able to listen to my collection of chiptunes (.xm format, mostly) on my Mac, but there doesn't seem to exist a decent application for this purpose. The only one I've found appears to be CocoModX, which is buggy and crashes…
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- @Puttabong Published 2008-04-18
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I'd love to be able to listen to my collection of chiptunes (.xm format, mostly) on my Mac, but there doesn't seem to exist a decent application for this purpose.
The only one I've found appears to be CocoModX, which is buggy and crashes for an unknown reason, as well as a Terminal script, which is cool and works, but not exactly what I'm looking for.
Can you help me out?
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I just found another application called XimpleMod, but both (CocoModX and XimpleMOD 3) crash at the start, with the following error:
0xb8000000 - 0xb81d7fe7 translate ??? (???) /usr/libexec/oah/translateSeems like they are for Power PC.
Wow, I've just found it, a great Mod/Chiptune Player for Mac OS X.
Thank you, Vincent (vsp ader.com/index.php?blogId=2).
update: VLC is able to play them as well.
CogX -> co gx.org/
Now it would be perfect to have a ModPlayer for the iPod Touch! R0GUE, I need your Coding skills!
I have attached a few incredible chiptunes, download CogX and listen to them
These give me flashbacks
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@ Puttabong:
If you like chiptunes, have you tried the High Voltage SID Collection? 35.000 SID songs from the C64: hvsc.c64 .org
A great Sidplayer for the Mac - wow, SIDplay 4.0 looks like iTunes! mac update.com/info.php/id/8714/sidplay
Slay-Radio plays C64 and Amiga remixes all the day via Real stream: slay radio.org
And here are remixes of original C64-Tunes: rem ix64.com/charts.html
This tune is from the demo Biba 2 from the group Arise, made in 2002. Its a zip archive, not rar.
Here's a demo how the SID sounded 19 years before It's also a zip.
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| Username | Dossier Contribution | Dispatches | Active Window |
|---|---|---|---|
| @Puttabong | Primary Author | 4 | 2008-04-18 → 2008-04-26 |
| @naquaada | Core Contributor | 3 | 2008-04-26 → 2008-04-29 |
| @R0GUE | Contributor | 1 | 2008-04-18 |