• Ctrl+BackSpace does not work in Vortex Tracker II v1.0 beta 18, so fixed version is uploaded to the site (including sources).

• Vortex Tracker II v1.0 beta 18 is released. Many changes including fixing some critical errors. See readme.txt for details. Download from Vortex Project section.
• Into to the Programmer section added source code of Vortex Tracker II v1.0 beta 18.

• AY Emulator v2.9 beta 7 is released. The most changes are fixes of Delphi To Lazarus conversion (they prefixed as D2L in readme.beta.txt), there are also several new features and bug-fixes. Download from the Emulator section. Next version will not have experimental status, I hope.
• Into to the Programmer section added source code of Ay_Emul v2.9 beta 7.

• And TAD again has sent the set of fixed Denvil skins, and new skin Packpacka (yet another template for making own skins) See in the Emulator section.

• AY Emulator v2.9 beta 6 is released. This version is experimental and not replacing v2.9 beta 5. Project is migrated from Delphi to Lazarus (Free Pascal), already usable, but some bugs can be found yet. Download from the Emulator section.
• In the Emulator section AY Emulator v2.9 beta 6 build for Linux is published. For the moment, only ZX-formats and no sound.
• Into BASS.7z added WV-files library, seek at the Emulator section.
• Into to the Programmer section added source code of Ay_Emul v2.9 beta 6.

• New skin for Ay_Emul by Denvil uploaded to the Emulator section.

• AY Emulator v2.9 beta 5 is released. See readme.beta.txt for list of changes. Download from the Emulator section.
• Into to the Programmer section added source code of Ay_Emul v2.9 beta 5.

• In Archives of music section AY Composers List v4.5 is added. 95 records were updated.
• In Archives of music section AY Composers List Development Tools are updated too.

• AY Emulator v2.9 beta 4 is released. See readme.beta.txt for list of changes. Optional BASS libraries are uploaded separately. Download from the Emulator section.
• Into to the Programmer section added source code of Ay_Emul v2.9 beta 4.

• Tr_Songs archive version 4.5 is released. See in Archives of music section. The archive contains more than 22500 files now (about 20000 are musical modules). Thanks to George for music and to vBv for big zx-soft collection.

• In Archives of music section AY Composers List v4.4 is added. 60 records were updated.
• In Archives of music section AY Composers List Development Tools are updated too.

• Tr_Songs archive version 4.4 is released. See in Archives of music section. The archive contains more than 22200 files now (more than 19800 are musical modules). List of new music senders: Firestarter, Kevin, Titus, DW and Icabod. Useful information get from: Firestarter, Kyv, Crazy Doctor and Titus.

• In Archives of music section AY Composers List v4.3 is added. About 50 records were updated.
• In Archives of music section AY Composers List Development Tools are updated too.

• Unfortunately, AY and chip music resources continue die, there is a second for last months removing of dead links in References section.

• Tr_Songs archive version 4.3 is released. See in Archives of music section. The archive contains about 21200 files now (about 18800 are musical modules). Specially for X-agon all M3U converted to AYL. List of new music senders: dj.maxx, AlCo, Factor6, Rebel, Karo, AAA, Wizard, JeRrS, TAD, Voxel and n1k-o. Useful information get from: dj.maxx, AlCo, Rebel, X-agon, Eugene, Voxel and ZZ Wave.

• AY Emulator v2.9 beta 3 is released. See readme.beta.txt for list of changes. Download from the Emulator section.
• Into to the Programmer section added source code of Ay_Emul v2.9 beta 3.

• In Archives of music section AY Composers List v4.21 is added. More than 40 records were updated.
• In Archives of music section AY Composers List Development Tools was updated too.

• In to the Programmer section AYL and M3u files checker is updated.
• And new project "ZX Spectrum Tracker Music Collection Analizer" for generation reports about ZX Spectrum music modules uploaded to that section.

• Again new links to X-agon, Factor6 home pages and to AY Riders and YM Rockers official sites.

• Little update in References section - links to Ubiktune project, C-jeff's and MMCM's sites has been added.

• Vortex Tracker II v1.0 beta 17 is released. TS-mode is completely made now (new TS-format, export to ZX Spectrum and other), and also fixed some errors. See readme.txt for details. Download from Vortex Project section.
• Into to the Programmer section added source code of Vortex Tracker II v1.0 beta 17.

• Especially for Dmitry Bystrov magazine Info Guide #10 PTxTools project was updated. Fixed little error in UniSearch, PT3Play and PTxPlay are improved for new features of PT v3.7, ROM-version of PT3Play specially for Axor (without self-modified code). And something new in this release is PTSPlay, which has all features of PTxPlay (playing PT2 and PT3 modules) and can play Turbo Sound tracks (either 2xPT2 or 2xPT3, and PT v3.7 TS-format). Look at to the Programmer section.
• All stand-alone utils of PTxTools are removed from site.

• AY Emulator v2.9 beta 2 is released. See readme.beta.txt for list of changes, main of them is Turbo Sound modules support. Download from the Emulator section.
• Into to the Programmer section added source code of Ay_Emul v2.9 beta 2.
• In Archives of music section Turbo Sound music archive (48 items) to test new features of Ay_Emul.

• Vortex Tracker II v1.0 beta 16 is released. Many changes around PT 3.7 module format. See readme.txt as usually. Download from Vortex Project section.
• Into to the Programmer section added source code of Vortex Tracker II v1.0 beta 16.

• New skin for Ay_Emul Dizzy by Ivan Titov uploaded to the Emulator section. There are two versions of skin in archive: for dark and light background.

• In Archives of music section AY Composers List v4.2 is added. About 140 records were updated.
• In Archives of music section AY Composers List Development Tools was updated too.

• Tr_Songs archive version 4.2 is released. See in Archives of music section. The archive contains now about 20700 files (about 18400 are musical modules). Thanks for sending music, archives and information to Sja (music, info), AAA (music), Karbofos (music), Andrew Fer (info), Pyza (info, demo), Znahar (music), TAD (music, info).

• Thanks to untergrund.net for new host for the project. Also thanks to at.kz for 7 years of my project support!
• Main page has been updated a little.
• References section was updated.
• Vortex Tracker II v1.0 beta 15 is released. Many changes as you possibly know (Virtual TR-DOS published it during the site was down, thanks to Striker for help). See readme.txt as usually. Download from Vortex Project section.
• Into to the Programmer section added source code of Vortex Tracker II v1.0 beta 15.

• In Archives of music section AY Composers List v4.11 is added. About 150 records were updated.
• In Archives of music section AY Composers List Development Tools was updated too.

• In Archives of music section AY Composers List v4.1 is added. More than 100 records were updated. Translit (non-cirillic) version is included as usually.
• In Archives of music section AY Composers List Development Tools was updated too.

• Tr_Songs archive version 4.1 is released. See in Archives of music section. As known, many duplicated music are masked after module format conversion. Therefore, I wrote some soft to search such duplications. About 600 duplicated modules was found and removed from archive. The archive contains now more than 19200 files (about 17400 are musical modules). Thanks for sending music and archives to TAD, AAA, Karbofos, Cj Echo, Megus, Alco, Vladimir Bogdanovitch, ch41ns4w and JeRrS. Also many info and comments are used from TAD, AAA, Macros, Icabod, Karbofos, Cj Echo and Alco. Alco also helped with updating playlists. Thanks to all you!

• New version of 2in1_Tutorial_plus_Skin_in4k_by_CwB in the Emulator section.

• 2in1_Tutorial_plus_Skin_in4k_by_CwB uploaded to the Emulator section. Its not just skin, internal BMP-file is a complete tutorial for creating skins for Ay_Emul including colored areas and comments. Just load into graphic editor ;)

• New skin for Ay_Emul Autumn by Kigan uploaded to the Emulator section.

• Vortex Tracker II v1.0 beta 14 is released. Fixed one error and made many changes in Turbo-Sound mode. See readme.txt as usually. Thanks to Karbofos for support! Download from Vortex Project section.
• Into to the Programmer section added source code of Vortex Tracker II v1.0 beta 14.

• AY Emulator v2.9 beta 1 is released. Many changes and bug-fixes (see readme.beta.txt). Download from the Emulator section.
• Into to the Programmer section added source code of Ay_Emul v2.9 beta 1.

• In Archives of music section AY Composers List v4.0 is added. Too many changes to describe, so download and see ;) Included information from icabod, karbofos, aaa, newart, and many other people, who send me such information last years. Little bonus for "non-cyrillic" users: archive contains translit version of list now.
• In Archives of music section added AY Composers List Development Tools. Package consists of previous versions of list, database, and Delphi 7 projects for work with AY Composers List project.

• "VTX, YM, etc" archive v1.2 is released. See in Archives of music section. Size is decreased as usualy, but unfortunately some new VTXs has been added (from TAD and Jerrs).

• In Archives of music section the latest version (v3.6) of AY Composers List by Dima Bystrov (Alone Coder) is uploaded. Now you can (must!) send all comments and additions to me (Sergey Bulba). All new versions will be available at this site from now. Just learn Russian ;)

• Tr_Songs archive version 4.0 is released. See in Archives of music section. The archive contains more than 19000 files now, from them about 17500 are music modules. Big thanks for information to: AAA, C-jeff, Newart; for information, programs and modules to: T.A.D., AAA, C-jeff, Unwinder, Karbofos, Wlodek Black, Agent Smit and Alex Oganesov.

• Romanich's project "YM2149F on LPT" was upgraded: drawing of board, photo of device and description in Russian was added into LPT-YM.7z archive. Download from for Engineer section.

• Little update in for Engineer section. Romanich made new connecting scheme of YM2149F via LPT-interface with YM3 and YM5/YM6 file players and sources. Also, famous AY-LPT (since 2000) by Vitaly Mayatskih & Alexander Kulik was uploaded (many ZX Spectrum emulators support it).

• Vortex Tracker II v1.0 beta 13 is released. Fixed some errors, added several new features, main of them is initial Turbo-Sound support (playing through two AYs). More in readme.txt. See in Vortex Project section.
• Into to the Programmer section added source code of Vortex Tracker II v1.0 beta 13.

• After long delay you can download Micro ST beta version 5 from Micro Speccy section. More SNDH-files are playable in this version, many other changes, main of them is seek bar.
• Into to the Programmer section added Micro ST beta version 5 source code.

• AY Emulator v2.8 is released. Read about all changes in help-files. Download from the Emulator section.
• Into to the Programmer section added source code of Ay_Emul v2.8.

• AY Emulator v2.8 beta 14 is released. Added XMI-files (XMIDI) and improved MIDI support, sequence/song number in command line for multitrack files (AY, AYM, MID or XMI) and many other changes (see readme.beta.txt for details). Download from the Emulator section.
• Into to the Programmer section added source code of Ay_Emul 2.8 beta 14.

• AY Emulator v2.8 beta 13 is released. Added MIDI files support (MID and RMI for the moment), BASS and BASSWMA v2.2, and also fixed some errors. See in the Emulator section.
• Into to the Programmer section added source code of Ay_Emul 2.8 beta 13.

• Into to the Programmer section placed two Delphi 7 projects for playing MIDI-files with own interpreter of *.MID (*.RMI) format.

• TAD has corrected breeze skin (current chip "LEDs" was swapped). Fixed version can be found in the Emulator section.

• Tr_Songs archive version 3.9 is released. See in Archives of music section. The archive contains about 18100 files now, from them about 16700 are music modules. Big thanks for information to: KYV, Mast, AAA, Andry, Newart; for information, programs and modules to: TAD, Mast, AAA, Andry, C-jeff, Cardy, Nikolai Amosov and Bugsy.

• PSG-files comparer is improved: amplitude registers comparing is slightly smarter now. Download from to the Programmer section.

• AY Emulator v2.8 beta 12 is released. Added PT Util's PT3-modules support and some bugs were fixed. See in the Emulator section.
• Into to the Programmer section added source code of Ay_Emul 2.8 beta 12.

• Vortex Tracker II v1.0 beta 12 is released. Added PSC v1.00-1.03 and Pro Sound Maker (PSM) import. About other changes read in readme.txt. See in Vortex Project section.
• Into to the Programmer section added source code of Vortex Tracker II v1.0 beta 12.

• AY Emulator v2.8 beta 11 is released. Added Pro Sound Maker compiled modules support and TR-DOS disk images header analyzer. About other changes read readme.beta.txt. See in the Emulator section.
• Into to the Programmer section added source code of Ay_Emul 2.8 beta 11.
• Into Archives of music added archive with new format modules supported in last Ay_Emul.

• Into to the Programmer section added Ay_Emul 2.8 beta 10 source code modification called "ay_leds" (author is Alexey Golubev), which alows to use keyboard LEDs for AY-music visualisation. New function works fine as in WinNT-family as in Win9x. It is not included into "official" Ay_Emul version yet.

• Tr_Songs archive version 3.8 is released. See in Archives of music section. The archive contains about 15500 files now, from them about 14400 music modules. Big thanks for information to: Newart, George, Nikolai Amosov, MadCat!, 3A Soft, Aectaein, Firestarter, Pyza and Jaan; for information and modules to: T.A.D., Maxsoft, 3A Soft, Bugsy, Igneous, Vetal, Aectaein, Kyv, Pyza and Cardy. Let's work together!

• Little update in References section.

• New skin for Ay_Emul by breeze from fishbone crew can be found in the Emulator section.

• AY Emulator v2.8 beta 10 is released. Fixed several errors (including previous version one) and added some new functions. More info in readme.beta.txt. See in the Emulator section.
• Into to the Programmer section added source code of Ay_Emul 2.8 beta 10.

• AY Emulator v2.8 beta 9 is released. Added WMA support, playlist color setup and fixed many errors (thanks to T.A.D. for giant bug and wishes list). More info in readme.beta.txt. See in the Emulator section.
• Into to the Programmer section added source code of Ay_Emul 2.8 beta 9.

• Vortex Tracker II v1.0 beta 11 is released. Added FXM-modules import; max pattern size is 256 lines now, line numeration is hexadecimal now; added Undo/Redo functions. About other changes read in readme.txt. See in Vortex Project section.
• Into to the Programmer section added source code of Vortex Tracker II v1.0 beta 11.

• New project called Universal PT2 and PT3 player for ZX Spectrum and MSX is released. It is compact combination of my standalone PT2 and PT3 players (less than 2KB). From to the Programmer section you can download useful package called PTxTools for ZX and MSX, it consists of standalone players, universal PTx-player, miniprocedures like UniSearch to find and detect modules, PT2Time and PT3Time to calculate its duration. Thanks to my co-authors Ivan Roshin, Spectre and Dioniso.

• Tr_Songs archive version 3.7 is released. See in Archives of music section. The archive contains about 13700 files now, from them about 12700 music modules. Sorting by author was finished, added many modules and information from archive users. Big thanks to T.A.D. 2005, V_Soft, Kevin/CC, Mad Cat, AlCo, Newart, 3A Soft, Survivor/POS-WT, Firestarter, KYV, PheeL for information and modules. Special thanks to Alexey Alexeyenko for his big music archive.

• Into Vortex Project section added Roman Scherbakov's projects. These are well-known plugins for Winamp (versions 3.0 and 4.0) and VTX-player for Pocket PC (ARM, MIPS and SH3 platforms) + build for Win32.

• PT2 duration calculator for Z80 was made. Download PT2Time from to the Programmer section. This version made especcially for Dioniso.
• In to the Programmer section universal PT2-player for ZX Spectrum and MSX is updated. Some optimizations (smaller and faster).

• In to the Programmer section added universal PT2-player for ZX Spectrum and MSX. You can replace several old limited players with one new right and compact (about 1 KB).

• Due many requests PT3 duration calculator for Z80 was made. Download PT3Time from to the Programmer section. This version made especcially for Macros and Dioniso. It was not expected on Z80, but time calculation work fast (about 0.1-0.5 second).

• In to the Programmer section archive with universal PT3-player for ZX Spectrum is updated. Alfonso D.C. aka Dioniso has made adaptation for MSX computers. Jocker/OHG/CMS has adapted source code to XAS 9.06 assembler. Thanks to all for stable interest in this project!

• AY Emulator v2.8 beta 8 is released. Fixed many errors (including critical one), added find item in playlist. More info in readme.beta.txt. See in the Emulator section.
• Into to the Programmer section added source code of Ay_Emul 2.8 beta 8.

• Vortex Tracker II v1.0 beta 10 is released. Added last release of ZX PT3 player; max pattern size is 100 lines now. About other changes read in readme.txt. See in Vortex Project section.
• Into to the Programmer section added source code of Vortex Tracker II v1.0 beta 10.

• AY Emulator v2.8 beta 7 is released. Rewrited all code, which was unstable in Windows XP, added last BASS.DLL v2.1 support, about other changes read in readme.beta.txt. See in the Emulator section.
• Into to the Programmer section added source code of Ay_Emul 2.8 beta 7.

• Tr_Songs archive version 3.6 is released. See in Archives of music section. The archive contains about 12800 files now, from them about 11900 music modules. Removed many copies which have only slight differences with originals. The most music from 'Magazines' folder was moved to 'Authors' one (about 200 new AYL- and M3U-links added instead). Analized and updated info about authors and modules for the last halfyear from my e-mail database. Thanks to T.A.D. 2004, Maxsoft, k0l0b0k, Firestarter, Newart, Key-Jee, AlCo for information and modules.

• In to the Programmer section archive with new PT3-player for ZX Spectrum is updated. Again faster and smaller. The most changes was made by Ivan Roshin.

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