Trackers & Demoscene
OpenMPT is back, and Rebels remind us how we used to live… or still do
After a gap of six months to the day, we finally see a new release of old favourite OpenMPT. Among the highlights are an enhanced Find & Replace for searching ranges of data, plus the ability to replace entries with relative values or percentages. Sample playback now has floating-point precision, and one or two previously pluginbased features are now directly integrated
“The latest BitJam podcast compiles an eclectic selection of notable competition entries”
into OpenMPT, such as MIDI Input/Output and Ogg Vorbis/Opus support.
Nothing overly sexy, but these underthe-hood changes have lead to important improvements in the replay routine library (libopenmpt) and will supposedly open up new features for future OpenMPT releases. Linux users can also rest easy thanks to a bug-fix released a day later, addressing an issue where OpenMPT didn’t reliably detect whether it was running on Wine. Phew! openmpt.org
Also worth checking out this month is the latest BitJam podcast, 2014 In The Mix, which compiles an eclectic selection of notable competition entries from the demoparties of 2014. www.bitfellas.org
DEMO OF THE MONTH Desktop
by Rebels This month, Rebels take us all the way back to our misspent youth, staying up until all hours with nothing but the glow of a dualmonitor setup for company. What you see below is all you get: a stationary view of a desktop. The magic comes courtesy of the realistic reflections of the screens on the surfaces of the keyboard, the bottle of water, and other desktop items. The demo itself is a cocktail of various old-school effects set to a banging dance track from Teo. Simple, yet captivating enough to win first prize at the recent QBParty 2016 in Sülysáp, Hungary. bit.ly/RebelsDesktop