Arkos Tracker would be mostly useless if you could not play your songs on the real hardware. The players are available on the following hardware:
Z80
- Amstrad CPC: all the players: AKG, AKY, AKM, FAP, SE, MOD.
- Amstrad PCW: AKG, AKY.
- MSX: AKG, AKY, AKM, SE.
- ZX Spectrum: AKG, AKY, AKM, SE.
- SpecNext: AKY (9 channels).
- Spectravideo SVI 318/328: AKG.
- Enterprise: AKG.
Player capabilities:
- Sound effects support for AKx, plus SE (stand-alone sound effect player).
- ROM version for all the players (except MOD and FAP).
- Support of player configuration to optimize both CPU and memory.
- Digidrums (see this tutorial).
- FAP is currently only supported on CPC, single PSG, no sound effects.
- Supported extensions (AKY only):
- CPC PlayCity (9 channels)
- PCW TurboSound (6 channels)
- Spectrum TurboSound (6 channels)
- MSX FPGA Psg (6 channels)
- MSX Darky (6 channels)
68000 (Atari ST)
- AKY, without sound effect support, but with an optional SID implementation. Player made by ggn, to be downloaded here.
6502 (Apple 2, Oric, Atari 8-bit)
- AKY only.
- Supported machines:
- Apple 2
- Oric (both thanks to Arnaud Cocquière)
- Atari 8-bit with 48K RAM (800 / 800XL / 1200XL / 600XL / 65XE/ 130XE / XEGS) plus the SONari extension (thanks to Krzysztof Dudek).
Vectrex
- A AKY player exists for AT3, made by Malban. Check out his repository.
Elektronika MS 0511
- The AKG player has been ported by Aberranthacker for the Elektronika MS 0511. Check out this repository.
Enterprise
- The AKG player has been ported by Geco, put into a CPCTelera fork by Teopl.
VG5000
- A basic buzzer player was done in AT2 with the Lightweight (LW) player. Since AT3 does not have the LW player anymore, I’m waiting for some interest from the VG5000 community before adapting it to the AKM.
Other platform?
- Do you need a support for another platform? Contact me and we may find a way!