Amigo Tracker by Outgunned Games

Amigo Tracker is a quirky music player for Playdate that plays ProTracker modules.

Want to hear it in action? You can listen to a clip of ultrabass by Phase / Agoa here (1.15).

Features #

• Nostalgic Amiga -esque UI
• Plays files from local storage
• Supports most common 4 channel .mod formats
• Crank mode!
• Comes with three cool demo songs*
  • cs127 – Stars
  • Zilly Mike – Gone Forever
  • Alpha C – Skylark

Limitations #

• Amigo Tracker uses a custom Playdate MOD player library that currently doesn’t support all of the various Exx effects. These effects are pretty rare, but with some bad luck the lack of their support will affect your playback. Obviously there might be some bugs to fix too.
• Due to a Playdate SDK restriction with sample loading, the player caches instruments in the Game Data folder when you play them for the first time. These files will effectively double the space required by a song and increase loading times considerably. Fortunately the files are rather small and the module will load a lot faster when you open it later.

How to transfer files? #

1. Run Amigo Tracker at least once on your Playdate. This will create the Data folder and make things easier for later steps. You can exit as soon as you get past the intro.
2. Connect to a computer using a USB cable and hold LEFT+MENU+LOCK until Playdate goes into external drive mode.
3. Locate the folder Data/user.xxxx.fi.outgunned.amigotracker (xxxx being your user id) and transfer your mod files there. You can arrange your songs in subdirectories if you wish. Be careful not to touch anything outside this folder!
4. Eject drive from your computer OS to reboot Playdate
5. Open AmigoTracker. Your files should show up on the RAM disk “drive”, but if they don’t, you can try restarting the device one more time.

Where can I find MODs to play? #

For example The Mod Archive. The site has lots of cool old and new songs for your enjoyment. They’re all free for personal use.

Roadmap #

You can check upcoming features and known bugs from Trello: https://trello.com/b/swVSjRvG/amigo-tracker

*) Demo songs are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Floppy sounds by ullvieib, licensed under CC BY 4.0 https://freesound.org/s/329062/