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