[ANNOUNCEMENT] Resumed maintenance of libmikmod and mikmod.

[Shlomi Fish]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:20:21 +0300
Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012, Shlomi Fish wrote about "Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Resumed maintenance of libmikmod and mikmod.":
> > > That's great. I have fond memories of these "mod" songs, which were "the
> > > thing" in the early 90s, before storing and transferring recorded music
> > > became practical. I used to have whole diskettes (!) full of these things ;-)
> > Nice. I think by the time I was introduced to the MOD scene, I kept most of my
> > module files on my hard-disk.
> 
> Well, I did have a hard drive at the time, but I only had Unix (AT&T System V
> r4) installed on it. This was the beginning of the 90s, before Linux ;-)
> Unix didn't have any of these "cool" things - so I was using ScreamTracker 
> on MS-DOS, and ran DOS and its programs from diskettes. I didn't have room
> on the hard disk (80 MB, if I remember correctly) for all these things.

I see - nostalgia.

> 
> It's amazing how much hard disk capacity has increased since then -
> totally eclipsing other improvements in computers. My home computer is now
> 512 times faster than 20 years ago, my RAM is 512 times larger, my
> "modem" is 365 times faster, but the hard disk capacity is 26,000 (!) times
> what it was 20 years ago.

True.

> 
> If 20 years ago a several-megabyte recorded music file was impossible to
> store - and this is why MOD files were invented - today I don't have any
> problems storing many hundreds of full-quality CDs (not even mp3), hundreds
> of movies, and tens of thousands of high-resolution photos, on a single 2 TB
> hard disk. I think, though, that today mod files still have value, as
> "open source" music :-)

Re "open source" music (or at least "sourceware" music), you might wish to
consult more recent efforts in this regard such as
Overtone http://overtone.github.com/ (also see the FLOSS Weekly interview
about it: http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly/197 .), and there may be some
similar efforts. What he talked about in the interview is that he'd like to see
musical compositions being written as DVCS repositories which can be cloned and
manipulated (though I have yet to find such compositions on github.com) .  

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish 

> 
> > In addition to all that, I have been maintaining a list of some of my favourite
> > modules here - 
> > http://www.shlomifish.org/Iglu/shlomif/mods/ . One of them had been created by my friend
> > and me back in high school: http://www.shlomifish.org/art/#music , and is the
> > only MOD file I have created up to now.
> 
> Very nice :-)
> 
> 



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