Jim Leonard = Trixter... one of the originators of North American demoscene. I met him in 1998/1999... he's a great guy. Glad to see him still plugging away at

Jim Leonard = Trixter... one of the originators of North American demoscene. I met him in 1998/1999... he's a great guy. Glad to see him still plugging away at cataloging old hardware. In that video he's debugging a simple mod tracker... a program that allows you to compose music by adding various samples/notes/effects to a track. Tracker allowed you to create great sounding music (for that time anyway) in a small space and one that was using a small memory footprint. You could forget about decoding MP3s (they weren't even invented then but) since the CPU was nowhere near fast enough to decode the stream. Once you had a mod file, you could synch it to your graphics and play it back together in a demo. Ah, those were fun times!