Thommy21h ago

I think I might have gotten local musicians interested in having me make CD-ROM interactive experiences for their releases.

Like I was thinking a great medium for releasing music would be audio tracks plus a data track that autoruns on mac and pc (win95 and up) with self-contained (static linking) linux 32-bit executable too that plays the CD tracks along with some animation and optionally plays some midi versions with whatever built-in GM or sound card synth.

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What I sort of rabbit holed about is the possibility of doing DOS too. The thing is I could target win/mac/lin just fine with SDL 1.2 but I’d have to use Allegro to do MS-DOS. I guess with Allegro 4.2, I’d have access to all 4 platforms. I just wonder how well something built with that would run on modern systems.

The fun part for me is thinking of ways to midify the music. Custom instruments for different chips. Then I’d run into the fact that my friends are daw-haters…

Apr 5 at 2:38pmMetatext
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The one old school sort of nicety I'd personally be especially interested in getting from artists I like is a mfing Winamp skin! I still use those because I use Audacious in Winamp skin-compatible mode. Also no reason to not provide people with wallpapers/lockscreens in modern and old-school sizes. Seems like brands don't provide this nearly as often as they used to.