\ / \ _ _ ++ ** . / / \ ( \ / ) /~\ || () () || /_\ / \ ( )|_|( ) ( O ) _ || () () ||__ | ___ / Disc \( ) ( ) \_/ ( /| ()(~()_ \__) \__/ / of \ ~ / D ____ \ _ _ *_* /\' / _ | / \\ )) ( \ / ) /**\ (*\ /` | |--| / (( // | \_/ | )) ( )|_|( ) |----| (*)\ () | | | / (( | \ | | )) ( ) ( ) | | (*) \() / \ /*##*\/ (( | | () | | |____/ **_-V3-_** \_ 2019 (DIR) WAY OUT I recently compiled a new revision of the tracker module and SID collection CD which I first put together years ago and hadn't updated since 2013. It turned out that I'd collected a lot more than I thought since then and it ended up filling two CD, with some stuff still left out. So this time I decided to release it on the internet, seeing as I hardly ever found anyone to give physical discs to anyway. For the uninitiated, tracker modules are created by computer programs called "trackers" which first in the late 80s on the Amiga and then spread widely onto PCs and all over the emerging internet. They are generally smaller than MP3s or other audio stream formats because they only contain samples of the individual sounds which are mixed and filtered together into music by the player. The exact instructions for each note in the music can also be viewed in a tracker, or some player software like Open Cubic Player. SIDs contain instructions for the SID chip used in the Commodore 64 home computer. Chip music can be played in SID chip emulators such as SIDplay, or on a real C64 (though getting one of those to read a CD would be a bit tricky). Still curious? There's plenty more on the subject, and about the contents of the CD in the README.TXT file. A warning though - it's an only partially-revised product of teenage ramblings: (TXT) if_you_have_a_spare_afternoon_README.TXT I've collected my favourite artists on one disc 1, and my collection of other people's collections on disc 2. It would probably be a bit rude to encourage people to pull gigabytes off this server, so I resorted to the "freethoughtsforgopher" Yandex Disk account. For some strange reason though, it's only accessible over some protocol called HTTPS: (HTM) Module Mania Disc 1 - Artists - Zip compressed ISO disc image. 492MB (HTM) Module Mania Disc 2 - Collections - Zip compressed ISO disc image. 459MB - Also includes player software for DOS, Windows, and Linux (the latter needs to be compiled though, so finding packages for your distro might be easier). Versions were at least new in 2013. Download links require scripts to run, and will probably show you advertisements in Russian, but that's just the result of me keeping anonymous on the cheap. If you don't want to burn discs, you can always mount the ISOs directly on Linux, and there should be free software to do the same on Windows (there was for XP). (DIR) Up, up, and away (from this directory at least) ___________________________________________________________________ Gophered by Gophernicus/3.1.1 on Ubuntu/22.04 aarch64