Version 0.5 preview

[Teuthida]

I guess not ALL the mods are gone! What's your stance on the 0CC issue?

[HotterThanIce]

I've been using famitracker since i was 9 i came back 6 years later and its dead. smh. its been 2 years since beta 5 has been announced can you release 5.0

[Teuthida]

You can download 0CC-FamiTracker. It's all you could ever want in 5.0 and more.

[PinoBatch]

I downloaded it and tried it, and it doesn't work in Wine, the subsystem for running Windows executables on GNU/Linux.

Everything about FamiTracker 0.4.6 works in Wine once I go in Configuration and increase the buffer length to at least 40 ms. The instrument editor in 0CC-FamiTracker 0.3.14.5, by contrast, does not work in Wine. Instead, as I reported, the length control flashes, and every control becomes unresponsive, until I end the process.

In theory, I could work around this by spending $175 plus tax: $119 for a Windows 10 license and $56 for a RAM upgrade to hold the GNU/Linux host and Windows 10 VirtualBox guest in RAM at once. But I'm not yet convinced that the advantages of 0CC-FT over FT 0.4.6 are worth $175 plus tax.

[Yung Gotenks]

Well, R.I.P. You, Pinobatch. I can't believe you have to spend $175 PLUS TAX just to get 0CC.

[ollaxe]

Or you could just... Dualboot Windows. There's no reason to run them both simultaneously, and running Windows in a virtual enviroment, or at least in VirtualBox, has its issues as well.

[PinoBatch]

That'd still require buying a Windows license, and it'd cause me to drop offline in my IM apps for two minutes every time I switch between Windows and Linux.

In any case, 0CC-FT works in Wine as of six days ago.

[cpow]

I would very much like to support 0.5.0 version in Qt FamiTracker. But alas no source is available.

[garvalf]

0cc-ft is working fine with Wine now. I must delete the 0.5 preview as it can't export proper .nes files...

[PinoBatch]

Now that j0CC-FamiTracker 0.6.2 is fully working in both Windows and Wine and free of serious defects, the remaining problems are these:

1. 64-bit build for use on macOS Catalina, which can no longer run 32-bit applications
2. Making the technical changes to board configuration and the social changes to board culture to allow use of the 0CC family of forks