MadTracker - Forum - The old days...

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pOWL
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Joined: 01 Jan 2005
Location: Essen - Wild Germany

Posted: Sun Jun 19 2005 10:33 The old days...
Take a second, lay back and start to remember... Think of the old "good" times, without wondering of the real time effects, some "not working" or "not doing what they should" vst´s. Times without internet or email. Where mod´s were swapped by postal service or with bbs´s. A time where i used a machine that was able to handle 4 independent audio channels in a 8bit resolution... And that was all you had to work with... I´m talking about "Amiga" and the favorite tracking programm: "ProTracker". What are your thoughts of the good old time?

Franklin van Uden
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Joined: 26 Apr 2005
Location: The Netherlands

Posted: Sun Jun 19 2005 22:27
Protracker brings back a lot of good memories , programming demos and tracking on the Amiga with Protracker ... or 8 channels in oktalyzer ... the coolest on the amiga Even older memories , go back to the C64, also programming in 6510, and making music in Rockmonitor .... ($c000 ) taling 'bout the late eigties now
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Inge
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Joined: 04 May 2003
Location: Nieuw Lekkerland @ Holland

Posted: Sun Jun 19 2005 22:44
It was 1993 when we started with protracker (or orangetracker, or whatever was its name) on an amiga600 with an external sampler for recordings. We digged the demo's ("my goodness! music and visuals on one disk!"), started making music ("more bassdrum! we need more bassdrum!"), and swapped music on disks ( "I think the second part of the .arj file is corrupted"). It was nice. It was straightforward, intuitive, and very exciting. Everything was new, all had to be learned, all seemed possible. After some years, nothing seemed possible. Trackers had silly limitations. Limited tracks, limited capabilities to interact with other programs, limited sound quality. I'm happy that everything is very 21th century alike nowadays concerning trackers. Yes, vst's can be bitches. Yes, Rewire sometimes makes glitches. Yes, Windows XP ain't as hardcore-cool as dos. But the possible product is better, more advanced, less limited, and way more cool. Ha! Inge
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D Vibe
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Joined: 04 May 2003
Location: Sweden

Posted: Sun Jun 19 2005 23:31
Actually, I made a new chiptoon on the Amiga this weekend to compete with it in the chiptune competition of the demoparty Compusphere... I dunno how the results went, because I had to leave before the compo started, since I had a job to attend to this sunday.. I will add it on my oldschoolish page later on. Not tonight though ..
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D Vibe
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Joined: 04 May 2003
Location: Sweden

Posted: Sun Jun 19 2005 23:34
My thoughts about the good old time, is that the atmosphere that was around the demoscene and the Amiga platform will never be back again.. ever..
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BeatMax
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Joined: 04 May 2003
Location: Germany

Posted: Mon Jun 20 2005 02:23
The time of the trading of ST-XX disks? Well I havent had that many connections to the scene. The only thing I got and which was pretty hard to get that time was Protracker! I think i just got ST_00, 01, and 03. The rest of the samples I did myself. Hehe you needed to be very creative to put the right sounds together. I still wonder how Jester of Sanity managed to put so much melodic elements into those 4 patterns. I still got my A500 but its dusted now. But I still have some tracks somewhere, well not worth to get published, lol. BMX
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technoid
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Joined: 21 Sep 2003
Location: Oregon USA

Posted: Mon Jun 20 2005 07:26
My memories also consist of C64 music, but when I got to the PC, my first recollection of playing MOD's were in 1990-1992, when I was using ModEdit/ModPlay and Cubicplayer on a 80286 with a D/A converter I built on a breadboard so that I could hear the music through that, since soundcards didn't really exist yet (or were at most expensive). Hmm, I believe the circuit was a 1408 D/A running into a 380 amp driving speakers, with the signals coming from the printer port. I could now finally hear Purple Motion's stuff properly in all their 8-bit stereophonic glory rather than through the 286's system mono-speaker. Those were indeed the days.
~techie

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