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« on: December 21, 2023, 23:13:49 »
For those that don't know...
I started off on the Spectrum until the Amiga really changed everything about home computing, just as much as the Speccy did back in the 80s.. The Amiga is and was the best computer I have used over the years. Both computers were mainly for games, but the Amiga offered a bit more, i.e. the demoscene.
We used to copy a lot of stuff back then, including the latest demo's from various groups if we were lucky and buy disks from PD stores, hardly any Internet at that time. I used to collect lots of demos but I was more interested in the music than anything, so I started collecting Protracker modules or rip them from the demo itself. So many creative people back then....
When me and my mates were getting into early 90s online PC gaming, I managed to transfer the modules onto my PC, and as there were a few early mod replay programs I could continue to listen to them. I must say, I still continued to rip as many mods as I could on the PC as well, and now including MS-Dos demo's, as the PC scene took off and later windoze demo's.
In the early days, Netscape (browser of choice I think), I used to download demo stuff at an Internet Cafe (do they still have them?), or Hornet, Aminet, Scene.org and even here at MA, The Usenet newsgroups and a few other websites no longer around.
I was never a scener, just archiving tracker modules for personal use. I can't play any musical instruments and don't consider myself musically inclined whatsoever, but I have made a few modules myself, mostly shyte, but what do you expect.
I still continue to download and archive tracker modules over the last 20-30 odd years, contributed some of them to the large archives online a while back and help the odd person trying to identify or track down missing modules on various websites including here.
It's also nice to see new musicians continue to create some fine tunes even today in tracker format and also those musicians from back in the day who found they're way back and creating music again in recent years!!
