Hello
I have just discovered Renoise having been an Amiga tracker fan many many years ago so I’m looking forward to some late nights and bleary eyes.
I’ve also just rescued all my old floppy disc Amiga files from those days but don’t have an Amiga any more so I’m wondering if I can retrieve them to use in Renoise on my pc.
Any guidance would be gratefully accepted.
While you can’t use those files on Renoise — as far as I know — you can certainly listen to them again on a modern computer. Depending upon whether you have a PC or a Mac, there are Amiga emulators available. The PC Amiga emulator is called WinUAE, the Mac one is called E-UAE. Just do a web search. I won’t add a link as these are updated regularly.
You will also need to download a Kickstart rom file (i.e. 1.3 for the Amiga 500 etc. - you know what I am talking about). And you’ll need your tracker of choice, be it noisetracker, octamed or whatever.
This is a good resource for the software: http://www.thegamearchives.com
also you can search for, for example, noisetracker.adf . “.adf” is the file suffix for Amiga disks, and there are loads and loads of copies floating about on t’internet.
Of course, for your own songs, you will need a floppy disk player and a way of copying them and importing them into your tracker. I am not sure how this works with emulators. Just check the boards here: http://eab.abime.net/
those people are very helpful.
Cheers
First of all, check: http://amp.dascene.net
I was surprised to find more than 20 of my modules there 
If that fails…
Chances are, you won’t be able to read those Amiga disks in PC floppy drives, don’t remember exactly why anymore, and emulators won’t help there. The easiest solution is to find someone who owns an Amiga and just transfer those files to a PC formatted disk. You can mount PC0: device on amiga and then format a pc disk and save it.
Alternatively, if your hypothetical amiga friend also has teh internets, he can just email you the darn files. You get the idea.
Renoise will be more than happy to load old protracker modules, but don’t expect 100% accurate replay, especially if you used to make command-lush chiptunes. AFAIK MilkyTracker is the ONLY pc tracker that replays modules completely accurate, since FT2 replay was based on older noisetracker amiga replay routine, and all later ‘compatible’ replay routines on PC were based on FT2.