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Loved making S3M mods in the early 90’s, fun and educational for a kid interested in making music.

• vnorilo 3y ago
  What's great about tracker music is that it's in source format, readable, editable and remixable as if you were the original author. Open source music! Great for learning.
  • rob74 3y ago
    Yeah, that was a nice side effect - but only a side effect. The real reason why the music was released in this format was space saving. If you would have wanted to release a song with all the tracks already mixed together, you would have had to store it as an uncompressed or losslessly compressed "waveform" file, and a very modest song would already have filled up an Amiga 880 KB floppy disk all by itself. Contrast this to Lemmings, which had not only ~10 songs, but also the sound effects, graphics, game code and 120 levels (although some levels were 100% identical to earlier levels, just with a tougher distribution of Lemmings skills and/or higher quota of Lemmings to save) on 2 floppies...
  • _joel 3y ago
    Object based audio... but 30 years earlier.
• geon 3y ago
  I had so much fun replacing all the samples of my favorite mods.