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That's pretty awesome! I used to use Buzz quite a bit too! In fact his harddrive mishap is what pushed me over the edge to become an open source advocate ;) I
by radarsat1 10y ago
That's pretty awesome! I used to use Buzz quite a bit too! In fact his harddrive mishap is what pushed me over the edge to become an open source advocate ;) I wish I could find the details about that accident, but if I can remember correctly he lost the source code for Buzz and people spent quite a bit of time reverse engineering the .exe just to be able to continue writing "gear" for Buzz..
- mastazi 10y agoYes, he eventually re-wrote the whole application in .NET, that is the version I'm using now and 99% of my old tracks and plugins from around 1999-2003 still work OK in the current version! I wish Buzz was open source too, I don't know if you've ever tried any but there are a couple of similar open source applications, my favourite used to be Psycle, even though the project doesn't seem to be very active nowadays http://psycle.pastnotecut.org/portal.php http://psycle.pastnotecut.org/portal.php and there is also Buzztrax which directly inspired from Buzz http://buzztrax.org/ http://buzztrax.org/
- mastazi 10y agoBTW if anyone is looking for buzzmachines.com then you're out of luck, it seems that the website was hacked and DB user info leaked, more back story here: http://forums.jeskola.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2040 http://forums.jeskola.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2040 The new reference site for Buzz gear is this one: http://buzz.robotplanet.dk/ http://buzz.robotplanet.dk/