Subj : Re: Windows vs Linux
To   : claw
From : boraxman
Date : Fri Apr 29 2022 21:46:10

 cl>  bo> You'll want it for all of 5 minutes ,then go back to your Internet
 cl>  bo> connection. The only thing I miss about dial up, is that you could
 cl>  bo> bypass the Internet.  At the time there was no real good reason to do
 cl>  bo> so, but now with the Internet being what it is in terms of privacy th
 cl>  bo> intimate "direct dial to a friends house" seems more appealing.  I us
 cl>  bo> to dial into a friends place with modem, and we'd just chat "online" 
 cl>  bo> Telix, and maybe send some small files back and forth, like cool new
 cl>  bo> Amiga Tracker Modules we've found.
 cl> 
 cl> Nice The first Terminal program I has was Telix! Then Terminate came
 cl> along.  With the wider view and better scroll back options. Couldn't
 cl> beat it.  Man the mods.  We all collected them.  Made mix tapes traded
 cl> them.  It was just crazy how much fun they were.  Riding around on our
 cl> bikes listening to them and eventually our cars.  I remember takeing a
 cl> few steps to get them on to CD. :D
 cl> 
 cl> DrClaw

Mods, S3M's, 669's, Impulse Tracker, they were the bomb!  When I got the 386, it had an Adlib card.  The Adlib card had an OPL2 chip, but no DSP.  So FM Synthesis only, yet mod players could play mods through them, albeit quietly. Some even supported the PC speaker, which sounded, well, not as good as Adlib.

When I purchased a Sound Blaster Pro 2, the listening experience went up another level!   The AWE 64 could also play them.  AWE 64 mod players would upload the samples to the AWE 64's internal memory, and use the AWE 64 itself to mix and play, which sounded even better.  Unfortunately, I only had the "value" Awe 64, where memory was limited and some of the larger MOD's wouldn't fit. Inertia Player was my player of choice. All through the 90's I'd listen to MOD's and look for new ones.

I think I may have put some on tape too.

Now you can go to http://modarchive.org and get tens of thousands of them.

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