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Platform - Utility » PC Trackers (S3M / XM / IT / ...)
Things that should be added under this platform:
- tracked songs in S3M format
- tracked songs in XM format
- tracked songs in IT format
- other songs from PC tracker applications
- tracked songs in MOD format ONLY if they are from PC games
Things that should NOT be added under this platform:
- tracked songs in MOD format (these should be added under Amiga platform)
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Following the footsteps of Amiga tracker music, some demoscene coders started to create PC tracker programs which could make music based on custom digital instrument samples.
Just few computer games on PC used tracker music but in PC demoscene tracker music became a standard. Sound card Gravis Ultrasound was popular in demoscene due to its extra memory reserved for instrument samples. But in most of cases people heard tracker music through their Sound Blasters.
-S3M : Screamtracker 3. PC tracker program & format developed by Sami Tammilehto (PSI of Future Crew). The first Scream Tracker version was released in 1990.
-XM : FastTracker 2 format created by Fredrik "Mr. H" Huss and Magnus "Vogue" Högdahl from demogroup Triton. Fast Tracker 2 was released in 1997 and was the first popular PC tracker to support 44khz/16-bit samples bringing CD quality sound to tracker music.
-IT : Mod format used by Impulse Tracker which looks like Scream Tracker but has more features (including CD quality sound).
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