XM2PT3 Beta - AT LAST!!

Well, I've been quiet for a bit mainly due to working on a new prog. It's called XM2PT3 and is a basic XM module (PC) to ProTracker 3 (Speccy) converter. At the minute it's capable of converting the following:
First 3 channels of all XM patterns,
Basic appregio to ornaments,
Note slide up and down,
Note portamento,
and Tempo change.

The output of the program is all to the screen, but it can be piped into a text file and loaded straight into Vortex Tracker II. Part of the process evolves looking at sample names and including relevant sample data in the output. This just requires a little work before hand to change sample names in the XM to names like bass, main, snare, etc.

So what was the first XM I converted? It was a 4 channel XM version of the Hi-Score table from Monty. The original only really requires 3 channels and the forth was just an echo of channel 3, so it was a nice mininal effort conversion :)

Below you can see the start of the conversion text (in the DOS window) and then what it looks like in Vortex Tracker II.



Ok, I'm off to play with SkaleTracker to make me some nice XM's to convert :)