. "OK" any prompts and close any running instances of the VICE
emulator.

You now have RR Net set up and ready to use. The next time you start the
VICE emulator you may use whatever software you want to network (like
Contiki etc.).

SCREENSHOTS

As so many have questioned this,

I will play the game on real hardware. Then, when I need a picture for the magazine, I start VICE emulator and load the disk or PRG file. Once the
game is under way I use the PRINT SCREEN key and paste the result into
MSPAINT in Windows. You can then clip out the parts you need, and copy or
save the resultant file. There! You have a perfect screen capture. This
is why (on some games) you see I haven't scored anything. It's because I
just started, moved to a position, and Print-Screened the results.

Holding down ALT and pressing "Print Screen" just captures the active
window as shown here:

Once passed into Paint, I cut out the bits I need.

There you have it perfect screen grab!

It does sometimes look different on real hardware, as VICE is an emulation,
but the trade-off between quality and real hardware for a picture is worth
it. For a review you need to play on real hardware!

Wikipedia Promiscuous modeen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promiscuous_mode

Vice emulator
vice-emu.sourceforge.net/

winpcap promiscuous mode driver
www.winpcap.org/install/default.htm



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JARGON FREE - DUMBO MUSIC!
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COMMODORE FREE One of the Commodore Free readers wanted to share his love
of retro music applications and hardware. I let him have free reign, so
here are his comments and pictures to enjoy.

For the Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, Sony
Playstation 2 and PC!

CORNER-CUTTING IN THE RETRO STUDIO!

Music. It's lovely and I won't do it but I can't be bothered. But if it wasn't for that, I'd conquer the world...

...that is, until now.

On my travels as a retro dilettante, I've found some forgotten musical
toys, with doubtless more to come. But now there are enough studio 'cheat modes', I can con to the end of an entire production without people
thinking I'm stupid. And I'd hardly be the first, which makes it OK!

I've already outlined some excellent studio options for the old Commie:

www.c64.com/articles/commodore_64_and_music.html

So now it's time to lie back and let the computer do my thinking, just as
we were promised in the movies.

My rules in picking these were simple - no musical jargon or knowledge to confuse my little brain, nor the need to spend longer than five seconds
reading a manual to get into the flow; though they should need at least
SOME input from me. I don't want them doing it all, I'm not THAT bone
idle.

All I needed were these and a PC sequencer to be ready. And I know some of these aren't Commie tools but they're still too sweet to ignore. So let's
boot a few and begin.

INSTANT MUSIC / IT'S ONLY ROCK 'N' ROLL -

Where I myself began. And it was the springboard to better music on my own initiative, making it a damn fine 'unlock'.

Anyhow, this software for Commodore and Atari machines took the basic
premise of the electronic piano roll and turbocharged it. Instant Music
was a unique semi-automatic composition sequencer, featuring 'Mouse Jam',
which involves playing 'freestyle' with the mouse as the music plays.

What does that mean to me? Well, idly fiddling with it for a few goes,
'til I got something like this: www.Concep
t-Single.net/Cheaters'_Concerto.mp3

I added my drum set and Yamaha synth to compliment the Commodore's nicely gothic sound generation. Of course, the more the user does pick up music
and design a track more exactly, the more original the results can be
still. That's another big plus, though it does lack more technical MIDI features, such as CC.

Some guy's DIY: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAa0uif-p2E

And it is original, time after time, in many styles. That is NOT a
guarantee in software, even now. This, by far, has to be EA's greatest
dumbo 'construction set' program for me. So why not have a go at my own
link to it: www.dustybin.org.uk/IM.htm

MUSIC MOUSE

A kind-of forerunner to the Korg Kaossilator, I think, for the Amiga, ST
and Apple. Just move your mouse about - a separate octave range for each
Axis - and it does its thing. Gliding about and what-have-you. That's literally it. With MIDI out again, to pipe your 'genius' through whatever keyboard, box or computer you like.

Here we go: homepage.ntlworld.com/mic hael.braisher/Mousey.htm

Well, there are plenty of details and easy settings on the handy card, but
the essential thing is to pick your scale, hold the mouse button to move without play (for pauses or jumps), and you're away. You really will pick
it up just like that and have an intuition for how your moves will make it sound.

I got a nice Hammond thing out of it, with synth additions. Another lovely minute-or-two job to fool the punters, and myself. We'll be none the
wiser: www.Concept-Single.net/Org any_2010-06-13.mp3.

SUPER JAM

Ah yes, the Amiga's one-finger chord player and accompaniment system, which
too carries a MIDI out. To get started on its very basics, just drag and
drop the chords you want from the right-hand box to the key display, enable sound or MIDI from one of the menu bars, then play the typing keyboard to
get the sounds out.

And on the UAE emulator, you can play chords made of chords on the PC
keyboard. Now that DOES super jam my brain!

You can do that or make a whole track with it:

www.soundonsound.com/sos/1996_articles/feb96/amiganotes.html

I enjoyed this feature on it from an original episode of THE COMPUTER CHRONICLES too:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4HrC91JiPw

Of course, there are also a gazillion different synth and sequencer
packages for the Commodore machines, each more colourful and wondrous than
the last. But you have to actually do something by your own efforts on
them, so I think we'd best put them aside for the time being, eh.

So now we move along to..

BEEBSYNTH AND ORGAN

Two little BBC Micro programs, one a remarkable real-time synth with Acorn envelope effects and the other a small, yet sweet step time -sequencer.

You don't even need to master time now, this music being two quick doodling examples stuck together: www.concept-single.net/BBC1.mp3

Also see: www.remix64.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10407

JUNCTION

The audio-to-MIDI conversion program. Run as a DAW plugin, it notates the sound of your speech, whistling, chip sounds, bass playing, or whatever
simple random noises. The program even corrects your pitch to a small
degree. You just build up some parts with that and take the rest of the
day off! Same as they did on the Fairlight, in the big boy studios!

Plus it's absolutely free. It surely doesn't get much better than this: rekkerd.org/fretted-synth/

GUITAR HERO WORLD TOUR SEQUENCER / MUSIC MAKER ROCKSTAR / MTV MUSIC
GENERATOR / EJAY CLUBWORLD / MAGIX MUSIC MAKER / MUSIC AND MUSIC 2000,
3000, ETC.

Some Playstation and PS2 music packages worth checking out. Music 3000
even lets you sample into the Sony itself. Of best note are the World Tour sequencer and Music Maker Rockstar, which allows use of Band Hero
controllers as real instruments and MIDI controllers.

Yup, no help there. You have to use your brain here, which should mean
you're in the ordure. Though with most of these, you get your backing templates to mix and match; plus the simple 'keytar' nature of the guitar controller saves on all that fiddly strings nonsense.

And believe me, you get far more than you imagine. The Hero sequencer
provides for both step and live play, with multi-part support AND pretty
good romplers. Plus, the guitar controllers are pretty dark horses too,
with amazing results teased out with MIDITAR HERO software, allowing use of them as MIDI instruments on your PC too! Cripes.

Yeah. Listen to this: www.Concept-Sin gle.net/Guitar_Hero_harp.mp3

That was my first ever fumbling try, too! And some of these other guys on YouTube aren't bad either. Find t

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