On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:18:51PM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > Eric Dantan Rzewnicki hat gesagt: // Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > > > are you familiar with the tracker paradigm? I've not used it, but I > > think you create a .mod that contains both the sounds and the > > instructions for when and how to play them. If I understand correctly > > this format was born in the gaming world. > > Well, it was used in games a lot, but was it born there? I don't know. > Still, tracked music still lives on in a lot of Gameboy Advance games. >
AFAIK, the orginal mod-tracker, 'soundtracker' was written by Karsten Obarski for the Amiga, and the .mod format closely matched the machine's sound-hardware capabilities. Of course pattern based music software has been around before that. cheers, Christian Henz
