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Originally Posted by Neo

Not for me.... .I wrote an entire geo-triangulation, distance and bearing (direction) program on the C64 (in Basic) that we used when we downloaded coordinates from our survey gear.

Very creative use of it. How did you get over the I/O hurdle? I never did find working instructions for saving BASIC programs to disk; lots that didn't work, but none that did, and none that even explained what they were even trying to do... It stymied me for years. It's only now, with access to the modern internet, that I've found out why files on the Commodore were so strange: Disk I/O was neither raw, nor handled by the BIOS, Commodore had it's own unique solution. Drives were their own self-contained computers that communicated with the C64 in a weird and proprietary mini-language that was passed to it from BASIC I/O statements nearly raw.

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goattracker

GOATTRACKER(1)						      General Commands Manual						    GOATTRACKER(1)

NAME

       goattracker - C64 music editor

SYNOPSIS

       goattracker

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the goattracker command.

       goattracker  is	a  C64	music tracker.	It supports emulated output via the software reSID engine, the HardSID soundcard, or the Catweasel
       (MK3/MK4) controller card, and produces songs in its own format (*.SNG). The program can also export tunes in SID format,  BIN  format,	or
       Commodore PRG format for inclusion on a floppy you can stick into a 1541/1571/1581 drive.

       Like  most tracker programs, the program is able to import instrument files, create and modify track patterns, set the order of playback of
       patterns and change details of the song such as the title and author. If you are familiar with tracker-like programs, then GoatTracker will
       feel  like  a simple version of those, though with differences attributable to the hardware. People new to composing in general should look
       up other information on composing on the C64.

SEE ALSO

       ocp(1), milkytracker(1), schism(1).

AUTHOR

       goattracker was written by Lasse Oorni.

       This manual page was written by Gurkan Sengun <gurkan@phys.ethz.ch>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								   May 17, 2007 						    GOATTRACKER(1)