rare mods
Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2002 12:37 am
Back when I used my Amiga 1200 I had a nice collection of demo music, now lost due to a corrupted HD. I think it doesn't harm for there to be several initiatives that supply Amiga demo music etc. That's good - its just too annoying if a major Amiga site closes down - we need alternatives, and after all, this stuff is public domain. However I think everone appreciates the work of the collectors like Exotica and AMP. A place like back2roots is also nice, except that its far too hard to get at files if you want to leech, as collectors do.
Some stuff I'd like to check out
- all artwork demo mods (smt)
- all faculty demo mods (snotty)
- all tricktrax mods
- newest mods from Jason
- newest mods from Vinnie
- and so on
There are probably also some gems among trackmos. I remember one but forget the name, it had superb music.
Anyway I tried AMP recently but it seemed the downloads were disabled (again: alternatives are good!) but I'll try again now...
Unified mod format: create format for as many mod formats as possible and convert all mods to it; then instead of having a heck of a lot of plugins we could do with one and all information from mods would be preserved.
An archive application like zipfolders could make it possible to browse each modfile like a folder: samples, instruments, patterns, names, info, etc.
One could also generate a database of information extracted from mods in this format so users could easily inspect thousands of modules. Their patterns could be compared, samples could be compared and possibly shared. In a database form songs would take up much less space because samples could be shared. One could even automatically search for similarities between songs and detect inspirations between composers.
Its a good thing Exotica has format descriptions. I've been thinking: perhaps its possible to create a machine readable description of each format, specify a mapping into a target format and then simply automatically generate conversion modules to recast most modules into the new format. Depends on how sophisticated each mod format is.
And and and...
l8r
Some stuff I'd like to check out
- all artwork demo mods (smt)
- all faculty demo mods (snotty)
- all tricktrax mods
- newest mods from Jason
- newest mods from Vinnie
- and so on
There are probably also some gems among trackmos. I remember one but forget the name, it had superb music.
Anyway I tried AMP recently but it seemed the downloads were disabled (again: alternatives are good!) but I'll try again now...
Unified mod format: create format for as many mod formats as possible and convert all mods to it; then instead of having a heck of a lot of plugins we could do with one and all information from mods would be preserved.An archive application like zipfolders could make it possible to browse each modfile like a folder: samples, instruments, patterns, names, info, etc.
One could also generate a database of information extracted from mods in this format so users could easily inspect thousands of modules. Their patterns could be compared, samples could be compared and possibly shared. In a database form songs would take up much less space because samples could be shared. One could even automatically search for similarities between songs and detect inspirations between composers.
Its a good thing Exotica has format descriptions. I've been thinking: perhaps its possible to create a machine readable description of each format, specify a mapping into a target format and then simply automatically generate conversion modules to recast most modules into the new format. Depends on how sophisticated each mod format is.
And and and...
l8r
