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| 2019 | |
| WAY OUT | |
| I recently compiled a new revision of the tracker module and SID | |
| collection CD which I first put together years ago and hadn't | |
| updated since 2013. It turned out that I'd collected a lot more | |
| than I thought since then and it ended up filling two CD, with | |
| some stuff still left out. | |
| So this time I decided to release it on the internet, seeing | |
| as I hardly ever found anyone to give physical discs to anyway. | |
| For the uninitiated, tracker modules are created by computer | |
| programs called "trackers" which first in the late 80s on the | |
| Amiga and then spread widely onto PCs and all over the emerging | |
| internet. They are generally smaller than MP3s or other audio | |
| stream formats because they only contain samples of the individual | |
| sounds which are mixed and filtered together into music by the | |
| player. The exact instructions for each note in the music can also | |
| be viewed in a tracker, or some player software like Open Cubic | |
| Player. | |
| SIDs contain instructions for the SID chip used in the Commodore 64 | |
| home computer. Chip music can be played in SID chip emulators such | |
| as SIDplay, or on a real C64 (though getting one of those to read | |
| a CD would be a bit tricky). | |
| Still curious? There's plenty more on the subject, and about the | |
| contents of the CD in the README.TXT file. A warning though - it's | |
| an only partially-revised product of teenage ramblings: | |
| if_you_have_a_spare_afternoon_README.TXT | |
| I've collected my favourite artists on one disc 1, and my | |
| collection of other people's collections on disc 2. It would | |
| probably be a bit rude to encourage people to pull gigabytes | |
| off this server, so I resorted to the "freethoughtsforgopher" | |
| Yandex Disk account. For some strange reason though, it's only | |
| accessible over some protocol called HTTPS: | |
| Module Mania Disc 1 - Artists | |
| - Zip compressed ISO disc image. 492MB | |
| Module Mania Disc 2 - Collections | |
| - Zip compressed ISO disc image. 459MB | |
| - Also includes player software for DOS, Windows, and Linux (the | |
| latter needs to be compiled though, so finding packages for | |
| your distro might be easier). Versions were at least new in | |
| 2013. | |
| Download links require scripts to run, and will probably show you | |
| advertisements in Russian, but that's just the result of me keeping | |
| anonymous on the cheap. | |
| If you don't want to burn discs, you can always mount the ISOs | |
| directly on Linux, and there should be free software to do the | |
| same on Windows (there was for XP). | |
| Up, up, and away (from this directory at least) | |
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