This song was one of the 3 Scream Tracker mods written for the demo bb :
This demo requires computer at least as fast as 486/33 with coprocesor. But speed of 486/66 or pentium is highly recomended (especially for hight resolution SVGA modes). This demo does not require real operating system - works even under MS-DOS. For dual monitor modes you need secondary hercules / MDA compatible card. To compile demo you need 32 or 64 bit ANSI C compiler (no it does not compile under Borland one) and libraries listed bellow. PC speaker driver eats lots of CPU so running it at computers slower than pentium is really not good idea.
Oh my goodness, a 486 with a co-processor?! How will we ever manage to meet such stringent system requirements! π
Jokes aside, this demo (which is still available in your distro's package manager ) was one of the first things I stumbled across, (probably late one night, trawling through Debian or Ubuntu package repositories in my terminal as a kid, passing the time between school, sports clubs and bed, because that's the kind of kid I was and still am β£) which opened my mind to not only the beauty and craftsmanship of the demo scene, but the unfettered love and passion that defines tracker music culture.
Oh, and speaking of love, π the note in the internal texts:
Bass.GP
Drum.Bass
Guitar.Lead.PM
String.Hi2
Drum.Hihat.Open
Drum.Hihat.Swing
Bass.Sine
Drum.Hihat.Closed
Drum.Tick
Drum.Kettle
Piano
Oboe
Marimba
Drum.Chime.Reversed
Twinkle.Abyss
Drum.Claps.fast
Flute.Panic.Attack-colore
Spherice
Guitar.Pluck.Bass.Plane
Real.Nature.OceanWaves
Vox.Speech.Scream
Real.Nature.Birds
Real.Nature.Birdy1
Vox.Speech.BreathIn
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This s3m has been made
by Dawn Music for the
demo called "BB".
This s3m is especially
dedicated to my
girlfriend Eva. She's so
far from me and I spend
so much time without her.
I'm waiting for you,
Sandqueen.
I want you to want me
just like I want you.
Your little man.
Composed:April 1997,Dawn
Length: 4min 38sec
I share these mods and what background information I can find about them not just to bring you good music, but to tell stories. A story of a younger me, forging the passion for technology as a source for culture and public good that survives within me today, in spite of rather than *because of * the role technology is playing in our modern world. A story of a time in the not too distant past when we knew how to build beautiful things because we wanted to, not to bolster our job application credentials or extract rent from our users. A story of a largely unrecognised tracker composer (as far as I know) sat at his DOS machine, late at night, working on this track and longing to see the face of his soulmate, to hear her voice again, after so long apart, but who continues anyway, not for recognition, but for the love of the work.
Is this perhaps a rose-tinted portrayal of the historical record? Probably. But my message is this. Take the pure humanity and purity of the arts and out of programming, and we will lose track of why we invented these machines in the first place. Take the humans out of computing and we will crumble from within. Maybe, just maybe, it is time to return technology to the people.
Get A Brian Morans
By Fearofdark
Finished/Released: 13th October 2009
FoD brings you another chunk tune:D I tried to make it different this time...
Title based on several things... Also, it's taking me longer to make songs now, what with
school and GCSEs and the like.
Samplies from various artists that inspired me to make this. Quasian, K.Koch, Radix blah
blah....
Another track from the Game of the Year addition of Unreal Tournament 1999 (UT99). This may very well end up being the track that gets me into Industrial music, or atleast Electronic/Industrial.
"Dream Tear Down"
by Teque/Trauma
november 1997
Samples:
Kurzweil, Alesis, LFO
Comm & Analogic
Greets:
Trauma members
Aggression members
Remedy staff
Turtle/Accession
Skaven & PM/FC
Dune/Orange
Groo/CNCD
Yolk/CNCD
dESTOP/CNCD
Juliet/CNCD
Tsunami/VD
Mordicus/JAMM
Vizualize/JAMM
Distance/Orange
Frank/Orange
Fajser/Rage
Jason/ACiD
and of course to
all good people in
#coders
I had a dream.
I could really feel
the reality.
I could touch the
reality.
I could see the light.
I was out of the
everlasting darkness.
I had never been so
happy.
I felt I could do
anything anywhere.
There were no limits.
The world was mine
to take.
I was so happy.
While expressing
myslef, in this
strange new world I
had discovered,
I must'v gone too far.
In a split second I
lost all my feelings'n
sense of happiness...
My dream was torn down
Back to the industrial
style...
(c) TEQUE MUSIC 1997
My first big feature has landed! And although I know this will be hard for some of you to believe (lol), the downtime that just happened wasn't actually caused by my changes! π
You can now reply to comments directly! Comments are now displayed in a nested structure to allow for this.
The only missing feature I know of atm is that posting a reply doesn't (yet) notify the author of the comment you're replying to, but I aim to get this fixed as soon as I can.
Otherwise, if you find any bugs, have any suggestions, or would like to discuss more features you'd like to see, feel free to comment below.
I've started to submit patches and pull requests to Audiopub! That's right, it's free, open source software if you didn't know. I have quite a few of my own feature ideas (some of which are quite large-scale and may never happen, some of which are smaller and quite possibly will), and there are already a few things I'm working on that I expect will be live soon, but I'll leave you guessing at to what exactly they are for the moment. π
I'd love your feedback on exactly what you'd like to see added! There's no guarantees that I'll implement everything you suggest, and I am mindful of maintaining the spirit of the site, and implementing features that help foster the community rather than breaking it up, but let's get the discussion rolling.
Got an idea you'd like to discuss? Either leave it in the comments below, or, if you have a GitHub account and would like to do things the all singing, all dancing professional way, leave it on Audiopub's issue tracker .
A total classic! This one was spot-lit by the Mod Archive some years ago, and has been downloaded from them over 100,000 times. I think that says a lot!
I am also reliably informed (cough by YouTube comments cough) that Captain would've been 15/16 when he made this. Once again, don't under-estimate children!
Had to compress this one to get it to upload, sorry, Opus is good so I'm sure you'll forgive me!
Mod Archive page: https://modarchive.org/module.php?57925
A nice startup sound from the Windows Vista Ultimate Extras pack.
It's things like this that mean you can tell that Microsoft was very proud of Vista, it's a shame their vision was sufficiently disconnected from reality to delay it until Windows 7. These days we'd probably kill to have that level of [in]stability, if not in terms of crashes, then in terms of UI and UX.
One of the trackers of all time! Seriously, even though I know how it works, I still cannot believe that anyone could create a song so beautiful in only 432.75KB.
The next time one of you needs music for an audio game, make it something like this!
Mod Archive page: https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=55696
I think this may be my favourite modem handshake sound of all time!
The V.FAST protocol, also known as V.Fast Class or v.FC, was developed by several modem manufactures who were anxious to provide the additional speed possible with the forthcoming V.34 protocol. This protocol was a "best guess" of what the final standard would be. Manufacturers such as Supra and U.S. Robotics produced products using the βv.fastβ protocol. It provides 28,800 bps performance, but lacks the advanced error detection and correction capabilities of the final V.34 specification.
Description from https://wiki.preterhuman.net/V.FAST
I doubt many people had these, most will have just waited for the V.34 spec, or more likely, had absolutely no idea what any of this means, and used whatever came in their cheap Compaq. π It does 28.8kbps at a time when most modems were 14.4 (the V.32bis standard).
Recording taken from this video by Retrocet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0_HzMq51z8
Recently got a 9:1 balun, MF / HF up-converter, and wired it up to a big spool of speaker wire, and to my RTL SDR. Now I can actually receive stuff of interest! Here's some random chatter on 7217khz (within the 40 meter ham band).
I don't intend to make a habit of posting every single thing I hear, only the very interesting / odd stuff, but figured I'd post my first successful reception.
This setup is, to put it mildly, completely hacky and jury-rigged. Thaught I'd ordered a case with the up-converter, but apparently not, so it's currently in an adapted cardboard pillbox that I had to manually cut holes in for the ports, and the antenna is just strung through my shelves, over the curtain-rail, and into the cupboard. Also having some issues finding a clean power source for the up-converter, and dealing with interfearance from my laptop's internals as well (I need to get GQRX and the other radio software installed on a better shielded desktop computer), but it works well enough for now.
From the invention of modems up until the V.34 standard (28.8kbps to 33.6kbps), nothing more than an analogue phone line between two modems was necessary for achieving communications. But starting with V.90 (the first official ITU 56k standard, predated only by unofficial, manufacturer developed standards such as X2 and K56 Flex), in order to achieve the higher download speeds, ISPs had to make use of digital ISDN phone lines, and special digital modems.
The telephone network has been digitally switched in many areas since at least the 1980s, and the compression methods used in such switching systems limits the theoretical maximum data rate of any modem conversation, so eliminating one of the two conversion steps of a normal analog -> digital -> analogue phone call by using a digital modem on the ISP (or BBS) side allowed for the faster 56k speeds.
To determine what kind of conditions they're dealing with in order to try to handshake 56k download,, V.90 and V.92 modems perform a procedure known as "Digital Impairment Learning". In layman's terms, the originating modem (the one in your PC), sends a request to the receiving digital modem (at your ISP), asking it to make a particular noise. The originating modem then listens to this noise to figure out what data, if any, is being clobbered by digital compression on the line, and to negotiate around these impairments, to establish a stable connection, at the cost, of course, of speed. Upload speeds are not affected by any of this, because your originating modem is on a normal analogue PSTN line (telephone modems never went above 33.6k upload to my knowledge).
Because the originating modem is free to choose what sound is played during DIL, different manufacturers used different sounds, and so they can be used to identify what type of modem someone used to make a connection. An upstanding citizen of the internet has graciously archived many of these, for your listening pleasure: https://goughlui.com/2016/05/03/project-the-definitive-collection-of-v-90v-92-modem-sounds/
This sound is a handshake from an Agere softmodem, and is my favourite DIL of the bunch. If you're crazy enough to have read this entire post, comment below which one is your favourite!
I really like this song from the beginning of a This Does Not Compute video (https://youtu.be/rJUZAahpqRQ ), but have had no luck determining what it is, and I've tried about everything I can think of, including multiple music recognition services (on both the whole video and this specific clip), searching the description and comments, etc. The most I have is that it's licensed by Epidemic Sound.
Also, am I the only one who thinks of UI sounds when listening to that synth? π
After discovering this song thanks to TheDude here on the pub, YouTube recommended an OPL3 (I.E. SoundBlaster) version to me, and I think it's excellent!
A nice little ident that my friend and yours, @eagle_eyed made some time back in January, that I insisted he send me because it sounds perfect for a Lower Elements ident that we could use at the end of our podcasts (if we ever get of our asses and actually start making any, that is). This evokes memories of the PSP startup sound, as well as the Windows 98 shutdown sound.
For those who don't know, the Lower Elements is the name for my group of friends, which includes the author of this site!
Received and recorded in Stirling, Scotland, UK on a Retekess TR629 portable AM/FM/SW radio. The built-in recorder records in MP2 at 128kbps mono (the entire radio is a mono receiver only, even on FM).
I like scanning the mediumwave and shortwave bands for interesting odderties, I just simply don't have good equipment to do it with at the moment. By far the strongest station I can get from Newcastle is Radio China International, likely because skip is carrying it over nicely from the former Radio Canada transmitters, which were sold to RCI some years ago.
Made this years and years ago in Garage Band for iPad OS. Every loop comes from the "Blue Skies" collection, except the drums as I remember it. So basically, this is the song Apple wants you to make. π
Great historical advertisement (you, over there, stop laughing at the word Wang, yes you), great station ident, and fantastic sound quality! I bet most of you didn't know AM / MediumWave could sound this good!
A radio commercial for a computer store in Hauppauge, NY advertising the Wang Advanced PC, broadcast on 660 WNBC in New York City on August 18th, 1986, featuring DJ Jim Collins as the announcer. The Wang Advanced PC had a faster processor, more RAM, and better keyboard than IBM's PCs, but struggled due to its lack of full IBM compatibility.