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FamiTracker
I used FamiTracker 0.3.5. beta to open an FTM created with FamiTracker 0.1 demo 1 (anyone ever search the 2A03.org forum?) and it said:
Can't load file; This file was created in a [b]newer[/b] version of FamiTracker.
Newer?
NEWER?
[b][i][size=15]NEWER?[/i][/b]
Something must have gone wrong with the current beta.
Note: I have just loaded the same file with different versions:
FT 0.1 demo 2: loads correctly
FT 0.1 stable: loads correctly
FT 0.2.2: 'File version is not supported!'
FT 0.2.4/5/6/7/9: loads nothing
FT 0.3.0: loads nothing
Chances are FamiTracker's source code has something missing in the way of file version reporting (I have a feeling this would be caused by the program misreading the project file's header information, thus reporting incorrect information about an incorrect version).
I think this should be added to the bug list.
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There isn't a newer version, so why did jsr have to make it into FamiTracker? Couldn't he simply make it 'File version is not supported!' or 'FamiTracker has encountered a problem'?
By the way, an .FTM file can be any of the following:
- [url=http://exotica.fix.no/tunes/pages/FTM-FaceTheMusic.html]FaceTheMusic (link is broken)
- [url=http://www.genealogy.com/index_r.html]Family Tree Maker file
- [url=]FamiTracker module
- [url=http://www.chartwellyorke.com/fathom.html]Fathom data file
- [url=http://www.finalemusic.com/finale/]Finale template file
- [url=http://www.micrografx.com/]MicroGrafx Font
Like I said, it's just a simple bug. All that has to be changed is the error message's dialog, considering that FamiTracker 0.3.5 is the latest version. That said, it's well-known that earlier versions of FamiTracker's FTM project files are incompatible with the latest beta.
All that FamiTracker (& any other program) does is look into the file's header information, tries to identify the file type's version for compatibility reasons & then opens it. If it can't open it, it will just post an error message.
That said, jsr may have made a simple error. That error could have been as simple as reporting a new file version for old files & reporting an old file version for new files (& trust me; it's quite easy to do errors like that).
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If you mean the absolutely first demo version then the files aren't compatible at all, a converter was needed to open those files back then. No one is using that anymore (and all users was on that forum back then) so I don't see no point fixing it.
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