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I remember that for my first PC, I bought a Pro AudioSpectrum card, which included Soundblaster compatibility. One of the things they included was a Modplayer.
by RexRollman 13y ago
I remember that for my first PC, I bought a Pro AudioSpectrum card, which included Soundblaster compatibility. One of the things they included was a Modplayer. I can remember downloading a few mod files from Compuserve.
- pjbrunet 13y agoMODs were around (I'm pretty sure) years before Soundblaster. At that point there was really no way to create them on the PC. Pre-SB you could play them through the PC speaker, which was a tease because you could hear them, just not make them--without an Amiga. There was this thing called the STM format (ScreamTracker) that was an attempt to create MOD-like music on the PC. ScreamTracker wan't compatible with MOD though. Problem with ScreamTracker, it kinda worked but just barely--it was unstable. Also the Amiga was lightyears ahead of the PC so the STM format never really had a chance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_Tracker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_Tracker I think tracking on the PC got to be more popular later in the 90s with the rise of Drumnbass http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_and_bass http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_and_bass
- RexRollman 13y agoThe part of not being able to create them on a PC really is striking a chord. That sounds right.
- pjbrunet 13y agoI could be wrong, but I think Modedit 2 was the first PC app to make MODs. But it wasn't really floating around in the wild, maybe you had to be "elite" or something to even know about it, LOL. There's a guy in here who mentions Modedit 2, I didn't see anything in Google but I didn't look very hard http://www.inthemix.com.au/forum/archive/index.php/t-68295.html http://www.inthemix.com.au/forum/archive/index.php/t-68295.h...