Sharp X68000 music format ?

[chip]

Like for the spectrum machine i was looking for the music format of this machine

Where is here

https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Special:Modland

the Sharp X68000 music format ?

[Estrayk]

X68000 is a computer with a Yamaha YM2151 8 channel FM chip and an OKI audio chip for ADPCM sounds.
Too much for an Amiga., no players availables I think.

[saimon69]

Someone that use Hoot? Do you remember if using hoot was possible to isolate tracks also for x68000 beside arcade?

There seems to be files readable here:
https://archive.org/details/HootArchive20180626

[chip]

Thanks for the replies guys ....... a difficult one it seems

Till now i didn't locate the music format or possible music players, so yet no idea of what it can be actually

Anyway it seems strange to me that it is missing from modland

[rothers]

Commodore should have just licenced the Sharp68000 and called it the Amiga1200...

[Foebane]

Originally Posted by rothers

Commodore should have just licenced the Sharp68000 and called it the Amiga1200...

Blasphemer!!

[AmigaHope]

Originally Posted by Foebane

Blasphemer!!

Commodore should have licensed the graphics engine from the X68000 and used it in newer Amigas, and maybe added the FM audio chip too. It was better than AGA in 1987, but would benefit from Amiga tweaks (and the vastly better Amiga operating system).

[Foebane]

Originally Posted by AmigaHope

Commodore should have licensed the graphics engine from the X68000 and used it in newer Amigas, and maybe added the FM audio chip too. It was better than AGA in 1987, but would benefit from Amiga tweaks (and the vastly better Amiga operating system).

The Amiga was its own unique design, not ripping off other hardware, and AGA is great, and Paula is perfectly fine with just PCM audio, none of that synthesized rubbish. Have you not seen ANY of the high-end Amiga AGA demos?

[Solo Kazuki]

@Estrayk
It's not at all too much for Amiga, but question is how powerful. There are 8ch synth formats (e.g. Face The Music) and with powerful CPU You can handle 32ch S3M/XM modules, and even there is DigiBooster 3 with 24b/192kHz support and 128 (or it was 256?) channels with plugins (e.g. TB303 emulation).
But it's true that player is not available (or is it?).

[chip]

I still didn't find anything ..... music player or technical information about the format it could be


Strange ..... of all other 16 systems i emulate i perfectly know where to get the music modules

[Foebane]

Originally Posted by chip

I still didn't find anything ..... music player or technical information about the format it could be


Strange ..... of all other 16 systems i emulate i perfectly know where to get the music modules

The Sharp X68000 is a Japanese computer platform, so maybe most articles about it are in Japanese?

[chip]

May be

[saimon69]

@Chip

I did check with some of my soruces (Luca della Regina on Facebook) and he advise to use Hoot on Windows; it supports x68000, has a player and a way to capture output on wav - i did used to capture clean music instrument samples for a test Rygar piece

https://battleofthebits.org/lyceum/View/hoot/

Going to put a copy in the zone will pvt you

[chip]

Thanks .... i will check it

[_ThEcRoW]

Originally Posted by Foebane

The Amiga was its own unique design, not ripping off other hardware, and AGA is great, and Paula is perfectly fine with just PCM audio, none of that synthesized rubbish. Have you not seen ANY of the high-end Amiga AGA demos?

Ripping off other hardware?. If you say it because similarities with capcom´s cps system it is because they based the cps on that computer, and used it as development machines.

[Foebane]

Originally Posted by _ThEcRoW

Ripping off other hardware?. If you say it because similarities with capcom´s cps system it is because they based the cps on that computer, and used it as development machines.

I don't believe you. Besides, I never heard of it.

[saimon69]

Originally Posted by Foebane

I don't believe you. Besides, I never heard of it.

I can find several references:
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange...ames-developed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X68000

http://arcadehacker.blogspot.com/201...s1-part-2.html

[saimon69]

Hey Chip,one more thing for the hoop player: create in the player folder a new folder called 'x68k' and store all x68000 songs (even compressed) there.

[touko]

Originally Posted by AmigaHope

Commodore should have licensed the graphics engine from the X68000 and used it in newer Amigas, and maybe added the FM audio chip too. It was better than AGA in 1987, but would benefit from Amiga tweaks (and the vastly better Amiga operating system).

It's really a nonsense,the X68k use very fast(65 or 45ns chips) and so very expensive RAM/VRAM, this is why is so powerfull .
It's really a pain to read those sort of comparisons which consist to compare apple vs orange,and thinking that just looking at the machine specs is enough to compare both systems .
The amiga was the best system for his price, and not for all systems in the world,the x68k destroys about all systems of that era and after, if you're stopping to read only the specs .
If commodore wanted a powerfull amiga (and of course a really expansive one) it would have been better to sold amigas with the ranger chipset .
And i'am curious to see what's the base X68k can do,because what i saw is really not glorious for the 2000$ of the base system .

[DamageX]

Some X68 game music has been ripped to .VGM format and is playable with VGM input plugin and others. There are also many tracks in .MDX format which can be played with MDXWin or KbMedia player.