Internet nostalgia

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/6073/screamtracker321.png

Yeah! Screamtracker. I made hundreds of tunes on its big brother, Impulse Tracker.

LOL I think R0bot still uses impulse tracker on occasion!

Anyone still using IT (or who just misses it a lot) might like to take a look at Schism Tracker:
http://schismtracker.org
which is a free open source updated remake which is still being supported and has some new features (but still pretty much the same interface and most of the old key combos still work)

it will write your song to disk as a .wav, load .mp3 files as samples, has better midi and filters, and probably other stuff I don't know about

I feel like I can't really get on with modern music software because it's not enough like IT, but then I go back to Schism and realise I can't get on with IT any more because it's not enough like the things I've used in the 10 years since

Trapped between the future and the past...

Have you used/tried Buzz, spacecadet? Thats what r0bot (sorry, should explain: my ex bf; doglatin knows him, does excellent electro-prog music) uses and he seems to love it, it has accuracy IT doesnt, the only catch is live guitar parts have to be added in, from what I gather?)

I feel like I can't really get on with modern music software because it's not enough like IT, but then I go back to Schism and realise I can't get on with IT any more because it's not enough like the things I've used in the 10 years since

This - absolutely. I was a master at using IT back in the day - could make it do all sorts of things it wasn't really designed to do, but then I got a new PC that wouldn't run it so I eventually migrated to Reason which just isn't the same. Once Schism Tracker came out, I couldn't remember anything about shortkey cuts, FX codes, anything.

tried Buzz too, but it seemed like a foreign country

Yeah, Buzz is the main thing I've used since IT. It's a lot of fun to play with but I've made hundreds of 10- to 45-second loops and pretty much no complete songs in a decade of using it. (Well, not really a decade as I more or less gave up a few years ago.)

I always felt this was because it has so many shiny FX sliders to play with while playing your patterns on loop that I get distracted from the actual business of adding new patterns, whereas IT doesn't really afford you that luxury. It's my fault and not the software's that I fall for it, of course...

Yeah, same with Reason - I get a good thing going and suddenly it all goes wrong, like I add an fx or unplug something or try to get too clever with it, and then I'm just left with a messy 1 minute snippet with no beginning middle and end. The great thing about IT is you could copy and paste sections and parts really really really quickly using simple shortkey cuts. IT was such a simple program.

i had a sorta proto-blog in 1999 called Losers Anonymous. i updated it everyday (by adding and subtracting tables and content in index.html) with tales of high school woe. i was the most generic Sad Teenager in the world and i let it show. after a while i started to add people i knew to Losers Anonymous. i would add pages for them, put up a picture of them, give them space to talk about their lives, basically blog stuff. they were also Sad Teenagers. somehow, all of this started to get popular and i noticed that when i walked into the computer room at my high school library there would often be people visiting my website.

then Columbine happened. the next day, i was called into the counselor's office and told that my website was shut down (a friend of mine provided the hosting and they called his mom and she took it down the whole domain). they also called the parents of all of my friends with profiles and told them that they were part of a collective that was potentially dangerous and suicidal. the counselor also mentioned that she thought i was suicidal and possibly homicidal as well.

the 90s!

ha ha, that's awesome. "What you say, this teenager is sad? That must mean he's gonna shoot the place up!"

i also played a lot of videogames at the time. and one of those games was...

DOOM!

the evidence against me just kept stacking up...

I bet you listened to sad/angry music as well.

nope, i was heavily listening to dave matthews band and ben folds five at the time. i even had t-shirts

awww ZS <3 you are my heart (except for that DMB stuff.. heh.)

I miss tables. Remember when we got CSS and we could manipulate the borders really specifically? GLORY DAYS.

And frames. I used to nest frames like a champ. Then iframes came along and messed it all up.

Oh man, speaking of Doom and Columbine, one of the Doom levels I made was based on our HS. Luckily only my parents knew about it and they're sane people so they didn't give a shit.

well that's certainly the way to deal with a bunch of kids who you suspect are depressed and suicidal.. shut down their means of expressing themselves! sheesh

I'm pretty sure a really rough map of every high school has existed as a homemade first person shooter game level

My AIM screen name is the race/class combo I played the first time I started playing D&D circa sixth grade.

xps to whoever was talking about that like fifteen posts ago

Screamtracker reminded me of this Assembly demo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9hsIG9ZJdA

seriously, check out the Touched By An Angel (www.touched.com) and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (http://www.drquinnmd.com/) websites. it's like 1997 never went away

such a rush

This is the place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7PX3JAF_5Q

I love those old demos, and most of them are on youtube these days.

Also, that Star Wars fan cut reminds of the ASCII version that came out way back in the day...

"tried Buzz too, but it seemed like a foreign country"

have you tried renoise? it is very tracker-y, and the online tutorial is very Irish, I think.

Flashback!

http://laughingsquid.com/the-restoration-of-the-internet-underground-music-archive-iuma/

holy shit, that means a bunch of my terrible high school lo-fi "songs" just rose from the dead

delete delete delete

Jason Scott is a superhero, his good works touch us all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQHM4KmDstM

lol

http://oi48.tinypic.com/mh5cmp.jpg

That is the coolest thing I've seen in a long time.

i get the fat chicks in party hats song stuck in my head whenever i see this thread title

wow even the severed heads gigapus cdrom isn't that appalling. though it was from a year later.

welp, i love this

hyper
people

a/s/l

Can't stop laughing. Poor Billy, he meant well...

ESCAPE

new username, thank you

Can't stop laughing. Poor Billy, he meant well...

nah he didn't, openly said he hadn't even been on the internet but someone had told him it would be a good idea

http://highway62.tumblr.com/post/27863460910/phoning-it-in-holavicente-johnny-mnemonic

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7mk6fJpHF1qcf2rso1_1280.jpg

[ BLEEPING ]

i actually tried to watch (rewatch? i'm sure i saw it when it came out but don't remember!) that movie on netflix a couple of months ago but i just couldn't

It's no Hackers

just noticed INTERNET 2021 has the AutoDesk logo in it for no great reason

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GPGQoR6f6w

This is really great, from 1990. The cyberpunk woman has a keyboard that plugs into her head.