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Well, it's nice to know that a person like you is listening to this kind of music, Per! I'm a big fan of yours, and I have that beta album that you're submitting for licensing. I'll be back with lots and lots of lovely loopy links later! Some of which I will have to upload. Tyler Z On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:47:22 +0200, Per Boysen wrote: >I don't think so. The filmed tracker screen just brought back these >memories of the mod movement. "Mod" stands for "module" and on the >early Amiga computers there was a sound chip that could manage three >(?) sound channels simultaneously - great for programming music - but >the cool community aspect was that the music playback data plus a >sample could all be packed into a very small file, called "module", >and shared online. So the mod file contained both the sounds and the >composition, which was much better than MIDI because MIDI files did >not contain the sound samples and thus could not guarantee the music >sounded as intended when played back by the listener. This happened at >the early web days when bandwidth was an issue :-) > >Regarding fun Windows nostalgia there is also this Windows RG (*Really >Good* Edition): >http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/winrg > >I was once made target for a very funny joke: a friend dropped the >Windows RG flash file into my PC laptop's start-up objects folder. >With the flash set to full screen mode it really felt like having a >completely new and rubbish system when I booted up the laptop. > >PEr > >On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Tyler <programmer651@comcast.net> wrote: >>I have no idea what this tracking stuff is; I'm blind, so I only heard >>the >>music. Is there something >>visual I need to understand in this video? >>Tyler Z >>On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:20:17 +0200, Per Boysen wrote: >> >> >>>Fun! I was wondering what tracker that was, the info was at the end: >>>ModPlug Tracker. I never got into tracking but admired some mod musc >>>that circulated during the nineties. The mod format was perfect for >>>sharing one's work! Mod music was indeed related to looping. >>> >>>Greetings from Sweden >>> >>>Per Boysen >>>www.perboysen.com >>>http://www.youtube.com/perboysen >>> >>> >>>On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 4:18 AM, Tyler <programmer651@comcast.net> >>>wrote: >>>>Hello! Have any of you ever used Windows XP and/or Windows 98? Did you >>>>enjoy >>>>the sounds >>>>it made? When it booted up, when you clicked a link, when you checked >>>>your >>>>email and at least one new >>>>message came in? Didn't you hate that BONK sound it made when there >>>>was an >>>>error? Well, there >>>>is a loop-based remix of all those sounds on Youtube. I don't know who >>>>made it, >>>>but it was >>>>posted by Youtube user Something Unreal, and I'm guessing they did it. >>>>So, here >>>>is the Windows >>>>98/xp sound remix: includes log-on, error, email, click, and many more >>>>sounds >>>>you know from the >>>>old Microsoft days. >>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsU3B0W3TMs >>>>Tyler Z >>>> >>