Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] ".mid" files playing in Linux games
From: Christian Henz (chrhenz_AT_gmx.de)
Date: Thu Jan 29 2004 - 02:46:49 EET
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:18:51PM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> Eric Dantan Rzewnicki hat gesagt: // Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
>
> > are you familiar with the tracker paradigm? I've not used it, but I
> > think you create a .mod that contains both the sounds and the
> > instructions for when and how to play them. If I understand correctly
> > this format was born in the gaming world.
>
> Well, it was used in games a lot, but was it born there? I don't know.
> Still, tracked music still lives on in a lot of Gameboy Advance games.
>
AFAIK, the orginal mod-tracker, 'soundtracker' was written by Karsten Obarski for the Amiga, and the .mod format closely matched the machine's sound-hardware capabilities. Of course pattern based music software has been around before that.
cheers,
Christian Henz
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