OctaMED is for music ideas what notepad is for text: something to get ideas down quickly. It isn't the big studio Audio/MIDI sequencer Suite, but its still a piece of the puzzle in any project studio..

So far only 5 people have expressed interest, we need more!

Suggested Rules:
1.. It would be awesome if a member of the MOS team or someone with experience in developing for MorphOS could volunteer some of their time to look at the source code of OctaMED and give an evaluation of what needs to be changed to get the app working on MorphOS. There would be a requirement from RBF software to sign an NDA to do this and the developer could be reimbursed for their work from the bounty.

2.. Would like a programmer with previous experience in developing apps for MorphOS, AHI if possible. Knowledge and/or docs on Toccata driver would be a bonus.

3.. Everyone who donates to the bounty would get a registered download of OctaMED.


Anyways, these are my thoughts for now, and no bounty is set yet. Feel free to comment or bash/flame about this here!

Do you mean Octamed Soundstudio, or just plain old Octamed? I'd rather like to have a fully working digibooster pro, though.

OctaMED SoundStudio of course!

A beta/demo of Digibooster for MorphOS is available here


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[ Edited by Darth_X on 2005/9/21 21:04 ]

I don't have a Pegasos and MorpOS yet, but the main reason to buy it is to make music on it. Octamed SoundStudio 1.03 was and is and will be the best tracker for me. Another reason to run it in MorphOS is the stability of the system and the speed of this system on fast G4 processor. As I use Amiga for many years, I dislike to run Octamed SS on PC (it's a very disgusting feeling for me). I wish I had the same feeling running OSS on MorphOS as on Amiga, 'cause you could run OSS on Amiga for many days without any crashes or slow downs. I will donate to the bounty, but I don't know how. For now I will have a version of Octamed SS1.03, which I can run on MorphOS (C++ and AHI) and which will be stable (really stable as on Amiga).

octamed is the best!!!
i use it and i love it!

Darth_X: i want to work on OctaMED SS MorphOS PORT!

[ Edited by vovka on 2005/9/22 10:52 ]

The problems of SoundStudio were:
- it uses CIA timing
- doesn't support AHI
- has thousands of lines of 68K assembly
- maybe more

I know the problem with AHI and 68K assembly. Is anybody who can resolve this problem with 68K code and re-code it to something in Morph OS ? Maybe AHI is the easiest thing on it. I don't know what is CIA timing. Is it possible to get PC Octamed SS code from RBF Software ? They're still working on nonsense version for PC and for now they have a 1.7 version... Just get that 1.7 version, give it MorphOS design and features and is done... don't you think ?

I think there's somebody talented to rewrite thousands of lines, or not ?

I am not a programmer, if I was a programmer, I would work on it. I am just a musician. If anybody tells me how can I help, I will help.

I think we don't have any other choice. I work on Octamed SS1.03 on 68030/50Mhz,32MB FastRAM, the speed of this mashine is sufficient, but the screen with 48Hz is killing my eyes and tell ourselves that this is a nice museam piece of computer. PC version is disgusting. We need Amiga like version and MorphOS is (as i've seen) like Amiga Workbench, but very very modern version. I want to upgrade to Pegasos II. So is there any chance to have my favorite tracker on MorphOS. RBF said that we have to ask Gerd, because he has the rights to port it only to Amiga.....

i guess 1k asm lines is mixer routing...
AHI support is not a problem
CIA timing is bad... but not real problem too

What is it CIA timing ?

Actually there is a rewritten (100% C) player with AHI support working. It misses currently MIDI commands and a few special mixing mode commands but otherwise, it plays happily multichannels MEDs with command pages.

CIA timing was used originally used apparently because it was more accurate than timer.device. CIA chips are custom hardware, found in the classic Amigas.

ok... is problem to get OctaMED sources?

I'd love to see OSS on MOS but has anybody tried to speak to Gerd about this?

He is the man currently holding the 'ball', so to speak.

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OctaMED is a commercial product, so you have to sign an NDA with RBF software to get access to the OctaMED sources. RBF software has to agree to let you have the sources of course.

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Gerd seems quite invisible around these parts, so I might assume he's far too busy?

Lisa wrote me sometimes ago.
no other contacts with RBF
if anyone will help us to get sources - wellcome

If you want to contact RBF, sign up here: OctaMED-Amiga@yahoogroups.com. They are still there. And where is Teijo Kinnunen ???
This bounty looks like nobody can or want to work on Octamed MOS version.

When the OS4 version is ready for release the MOS version
will follow ASAP! Currently some final steps still have to be made...

Code from the windoze version is quite useless as it
even uses lots of asm code, of course x86 there.
And nice functions can be found elsewhere too!

Now start your million dollar bounty please! )

I think that milion dollar is too much. What about 450 dollars ?

450 dollars would at least drop down the costs for a
peg to develop...

this bounty didn't start, so talking about money isn't on the place...

i talked a lot..

only one thing I have to say: I am interested in a port of OSS for MOS

Hi,
I'd also like to see Octamed for Mos.
I registered it also for PC, but it doesn't work perfect, like it did on my A4000 ...

Does MIDI work with a PEG ?
( The same as PC-Soundcard-Midi or Serial-Port Midi like on Amiga ? )
bye

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A bounty for a MorphOS version doesn't make sense if the OS4 version is released first. If there was a morphOS bounty, then surely the OS4 guys would have to match it, everything being fair and equal.

Or make it a contest between OS4 and MorphOS: whoever comes up with the largest bounty gets it first!