impulsetracker
schismtracker
| impulsetracker | schismtracker | |
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| 1 | 7 | |
| 131 | 1,500 | |
| 0.0% | 1.0% | |
| 10.0 | 9.8 | |
| over 10 years ago | 8 days ago | |
| Assembly | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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impulsetracker
schismtracker
- Schism Tracker – free and open-source reimplementation of Impulse Tracker
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Aphex Twin gave us a peek inside a 90s classic (2017)
Same except I later switched to impulse tracker 2 as it was more keyboad driven. I think there is an opens source clone called schismtracker[1]. I should try it.
I made lots of tracks at the time, from the most mainline to very experimental, it was a good time.
I also purchased a renoise license but it didn't click. But maybe that was just me being a dad and having much less free time, patience and possibility to isolate myself in a man cave.
[1] https://schismtracker.org/
- Schism Tracker: An open-source reimplementation of Impulse Tracker
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MilkyTracker 1.04
For anyone familiar with ScreamTracker and ImpulseTracker from the MSDOS days, a cross-platform IT clone SchismTracker is still maintained and relatively recently transitioned from SDL1.2 to SDL2:
https://github.com/schismtracker/schismtracker
- Should I replace SDL for sdl12-compat??
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Dos-like: Engine for making things with a MS-DOS feel, but for modern platforms
Eh, the Borland Grahics Interface (BGI) style TUIs were kind of awful. I hated the Borland Turbo C IDE in no small part because of that style TUI. It just wasted so much precious character space on TUI frames and other decorations.
More of my fond TUI memories from that era were the bespoke ones in the demo/art/music/bbs scenes. Those in many cases were still character based but seemed to make better use of the screen space and at least more aesthetically pleasing character sets.
Scream Tracker / Impulse Tracker comes to mind as one example:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/53/Screamtracker...
Which you can still enjoy today in a cross-platform clone via SchismTracker:
https://github.com/schismtracker/schismtracker
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Before buying your next plugin, DAW or hardware, remember that Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim made Praise You on this
Schism Tracker is an SDL-based modern reenactment of IT: https://github.com/schismtracker/schismtracker#schism-tracker
What are some alternatives?
dos-like - Engine for making things with a MS-DOS feel, but for modern platforms
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BassoonTracker - Webbased old-school Amiga music tracker in plain old javascript - Plays and edits Amiga Mod files and FastTracker XM files
vtm - Text-based desktop environment