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A 25-year old Amiga 2000 still provides background music at home (when the wife is away). A couple hundred megs of Mod files provide hours of nostalgia. Some
by kingmanaz 14y ago
A 25-year old Amiga 2000 still provides background music at home (when the wife is away). A couple hundred megs of Mod files provide hours of nostalgia. Some people meditate with incense, Amigans ruminate to the sounds of 80s tracker beats.
Here's a sample of a great mod: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZWgXiVJbpI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZWgXiVJbpI - albeit from a lame demo. There are thousands more available at aminet.net.
I've tried replacing the machine with emulation, but there is something comforting in seeing the old girl in the corner serving as well as she ever did. Perhaps devices living beyond their natural lifespans comforts man's worries over his own perishable nature.
- T-hawk 14y agoNot just Amiga, .mod music crossed over into the PC community as well quite robustly, once Sound Blaster cards with digital output entered the market around 1991. I never had an Amiga but I've still got a couple hundred .mods from the BBS and demo scene days, that are still in regular rotation in Winamp. My eternal favorite, Elysium by Jester: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTtjvbAvsys http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTtjvbAvsys They do make great coding music. Not coincidentally, .mods resemble code, being in a way code themselves, with tightly structured and repetitive patterns but also with their own creativity flowing over the top.
- nevster 14y agoThanks! I haven't listened to Elysium in a long time. Brings back memories of coding to mods playing in WinAmp back in the late 90's...
- sashagim 14y agoA bit more recent (from 1995), but this is one of my favorites - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euT-CT6OXpA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euT-CT6OXpA
- tjr 14y agoIt's been about eight years since I last saw one in use, but I wouldn't be surprised to still find Amigas with Video Toasters being used for live video switching and overlays.
- apaprocki 14y agoFor me, Unreal ][ music never gets old :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmhtc5S4atU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmhtc5S4atU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpNGBzd2SLE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpNGBzd2SLE
- jebblue 14y agoUnreal rocks! My son put me onto Sunvox, pretty cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Row2VYpz2pY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Row2VYpz2pY
- valisystem 14y agoMy favorite was this one : http://youtu.be/ZiTX4dchAnQ http://youtu.be/ZiTX4dchAnQ Necros / Isotoxin
- JonnieCache 14y agoParadox, the legendary DnB producer is still touring the world with his c64, his akai sampler and zip/floppy disks, destroying dancefloors with live tracker sequences. Here's a little video of him at the Sun and Bass event in sardina, showing you his setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e0wg_618ac https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e0wg_618ac
- Sindisil 14y agoNot to be "that guy", but that's a C= 128.