31.Mar.2000
Heise
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Heise: Trackerlabels: The pioneers of online music
«In the beginning there was the Amiga, Commodore's flagship in the
battle for young home users. For musicians, the box did not have much
to offer, everybody with some little equipment in those times went rather
for the Atari ST. For the ST, there was professional software like Cubase,
and it had a MIDI interface. But the Amiga had many, many colors. 4096, to
be exact. That was a lot for the times when expensive PCs had either 4 or
16 colors. Compared to that, the Amiga was something like the first multimedia
computer. The fitting multimedia software, though, everybody had to make on
his own. And the kids programmed like mad. They cracked commercial game
software, replaced their intros with own ones and spreaded their dared
animations as so-called demos - some kind of electronic graffiti culture
came into existance.
The cult got in motion when 1987 a certain Karsten Obarski published a
program named "Soundtracker" for the Amiga. Obarski worked for the game
company Eidos and probably wouldn't have dreamed back then that he would
have been celebrated more than 10 years later as a hero for this step
The Karsten Obarski Tribute Project.
But he set with this simple program the foundation for a whole scene.»
Full article under titlelike (site and article in German).
(Translation: mb)
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