
I recently bought a MiSTer FPGA system and took the opportunity to run my old Amiga (1200) tracker called "Art of Noise".

Art of Noise is a 4ch / 8ch tracker (developed in 1993-1996) that is compatible with Soundtracker / Protracker modules but also supports wavetable playback, "complex" arpeggios, a rudimentary FM synthesizer, a drum-sequencer, and adds a lot of instrument slots and player commands while still retaining the 4 bytes per channel / 1024 byte "MOD" like pattern size "format".

In this archive you'll find:
- two versions of the program (the original shareware release and the latest public domain release)
- lots of modules
- the source code (at least the bits that survived)


Installation:

1) install https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Minimig-AGA_MiSTer/raw/MiSTer/extra/MiSTer_share.lha in your workbench and mount the SHARE: drive
2) extract this archive and copy it to SHARE:artofnoise-09Oct2021/ (e.g. via MobaXterm on Windows)
3) on Amiga, run "Assign AON: SHARE:artofnoise-09Oct2021/artofnoise" (add this to your startup-sequence)
4) copy the AON font dir and info file from AON:fonts/ to Fonts:
5) reboot the Amiga/MiSTer and hold ctrl-d to abort the startup-sequence
6) run AON:aon
7) increase the mix rate to 27000Hz (for 8 channel mods, default is 15000Hz). It's the last option in the 4th pulldown menu ("Kanäle" / Channels).


Note: For some reason the program may crash (software failure) when run from Workbench. This does not happen in my UAE WB but it's probably my fault because I did something stupid :-) Aborting the startup-sequence makes it run on MiSTer w/o issues (tested with kick 3.0, AGA, 2MB chip, 8MB fast).

The sound quality on the MiSTer (Minimig core but also all the others) is fantastic (using the I/O board).
Cheers to everyone who helped to make this happen, it's an incredible feat !

~bsp, October 9th 2021




