Hello blakespot, thank you for the feedback. I'm glad you like my Tracker!
I wrote it on a 486, which is of course much too fast compared to a Tandy HX. But originally I just wanted to write a tracker for the awsome projects of matze79 and dreamblaster, so I just used my favorite DOS PC for it.
But of course it would be cool if it also worked well with the original. That's why I set the compiler settings accordingly and tried to optimze the code (interrupt use, disk routines and keyboard handler etc.) for it.
Unfortunately, I don't have any real Tandy hardware myself and could therefore only emulate it via PCem for testing. Of course, this is not optimal and therefore it may well be that I missed some things.
Do you use the latest version of the tracker 1.21a?
Does it make a difference if you turn tracing off (the bottom item in the Play menu or by pressing F4)?
Others have also reported keyboard problems or that some key combinations in the program do not work correctly on a Tandy. Have you also noticed this issues?
Due to lack of time (new job, became a father for the second time...) I haven't worked on this project for ages now. But I will gladly try to optimize it according to your feedback.
I haven't created any more songs and haven't received any from others. But it would be wonderful to have more songs for the tracker. And I'm sure others can get even better music out of it than I did. 😉
So dear community, please share your songs with us 😀