Usage within hUGETracker

fortISSimO can be used directly inside of hUGETracker, which lets you preview any differences live! This only requires overwriting a couple of files, too.

DISCLAIMER

Using fortISSimO in hUGETracker is NOT officially supported by hUGETracker! If you get any issues, even with hUGETracker itself (garbled sound, hangs, crashes), while using fortISSimO, please report them to me! hUGETracker still opens its own bug reporting page sometimes, but I can’t change that.

Those issues have never happened yet, but fortISSimO may nonetheless contain bugs!

💡 As of 2023-02-22, a hUGETracker bug prevents the “note cut” effect (E) from working on CH3. This does not affect ROM exports.

Here is how to “inject” fortISSimO into hUGETracker:

  1. Locate the hUGEDriver directory next to the hUGETracker.exe you want to “mod”; we will be overwriting some files in there.

  2. Copy fortISSimO.asm into that directory as hUGEDriver.asm.

  3. Copy fortISSimO.inc into the include directory as hUGE.inc.

  4. Modify hUGEDriver.asm (which is now just fortISSimO.asm in disguise). Look for the following line, at or near line 5:

    ; def HUGETRACKER equs "???"
    1. Make sure between the quotes is the version of hUGETracker that you are using.
    2. Delete the ;.

    You should end up with something like this:

    def HUGETRACKER equs "1.0b10"

    If you forget to do this, you should get an error when you press the play button in hUGETracker.

  5. You’re done! 🎉

Undoing the changes

To restore hUGEDriver, you simply need to restore the hUGEDriver.asm and hUGE.inc files you overwrote. You can re-download hUGETracker, since the files are bundled with it.