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addingnumbers on July 29, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Monkey Island PC-speaker music player

Star Control 2 famously used music composed in MOD trackers, they even had part of the UI show a waveform of the music during dialog with the aliens.

It was seeing a bunch of .MOD files on the floppy that first prompted me to download a mod tracker back in the BBS days.

camtarn on July 29, 2021 [–]

Haha, yeah - many years later, finding the .IT files in the original Unreal Tournament and downloading a tracker was what got me into composing music on the PC. It was wonderful having the music available in such a reverse-engineerable format.

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