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April 11, 2006
Prophet 64 Cart for Commodore 64
Astounding is probably how to best put this. Not only are these guys making software for the commodore 64 SID scene. They're releasing it in a genuine commodore 64 cartridge. Lovely!
Prophet 64 includes a sequencer, which apparently "If you find past C64 music programs incomprehensible or you never quite grasped the concept of "trackers", this software will open up a new world for you!". It also includes a mono synth, a bassline program (in a similar vein to the 303 - but not) and a TR style "Prophet 64 Drummer".
The fact that they've recognised that the tracker scene isn't the easiest to get into - and the lengths they've gone to make the c64 (with the addition of the cartridge) a viable platform (once again) for sequencing is just amazing. The feature set sounds very tasty indeed. You can download the disk image file (free) if you don't want to get the cartridge, although it looks like the money would be quite well spent on this music nerd oddity. The sound samples are pretty convincing and if you're into that acid sound you'll go right in for this.
Preorders are available from Prophet 64.com and they've slated an April release. Soon, basically. Launch price is slated at 39 euro. Bargain! Via retro-thing
Posted by funnelbc at April 11, 2006 11:19 PM
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