So far I more or less have a simple player which steps through patterns and tracks. Still not much of a joy since I cant really verify everything is working as intended, the reason for this is for one the complexity of the format. Unlike eg. Protracker, there are 8 independend channels for patterns(which can loop, jump or have subroutines each), so there is no easy way to visualise whats going on the whole player.
For another reason, the player (both the OS tfmxplay and the disassembled MI-Executeable) dont give much hints or have many sane restrictions and checks about parameters. It would be quite easy to craft TFMX-Modules that result in both these players ending up in an infinite loop (in more possible ways than you could count). Probably it is even hard not to do so when you just naively try to create a module.
Im now trying to produce some sound, which means I have to implement enough of the macros and effects together with tracking their state so I can atleast playback some samples. I hope I will be there in ~2 days, I gone from re-coding everything myself to copying stuff from tfmxplay and adopting it to my needs. This should speed up my short-time progress at the cost of having to cleaning it up or reimplementing later. I really want to literally hear a lifesign of my work.
