Module Mania CDs

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                                   2019

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:

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:

Module Mania Disc 1 - Artists

 - Zip compressed ISO disc image. 492MB

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).

Up, up, and away (from this directory at least)

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