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  • 4mat personScene musician-coder whose 512-byte Empty won the tiny-sid-compo 512-byte category in 2005, and one of the most-quoted voices in the wiki's chipmusic.org threads — dissecting SID tunes from siddump logs, posting the …
  • AmusiC (Sotiris Varotsis) personGreek tracker of Bass Productions in Athens and the organiser of the 20-minute-chip-compo from September 1995. His real name and the compo story come from his own column (source: s-tw032-20-minute-chip-compo ) ; his …
  • Chris Hülsbeck personGerman composer (born 1968-03-02 in Kassel) who wrote his own C64 driver in 1985, won 64er 's music competition with shades in 1986 and then gave the magazine soundmonitor , the editor with which the C64 tracker era …
  • Jan Harries (Rambones) personDanish demo-scener, C64 music ripper and composer (born 1969-01-12 in Nyborg): a founder of the demo group The Supply Team (1985–89), author of the Ripped-Off (C64, 1987–88) and Ripp Off (PlaySID, 1991–95) rip series, …
  • Lars "ZAP" Hamre personAuthor of the original protracker (Amiga Freelancers, with Anders Hamre, Sven Vahsen and Rune Johnsrud): the first version on 1990-05-04, 1.0A released in August 1990 "Full of bugs", 1.0B/C, 1.1A (December 1990, …
  • Leinad (Daniel Falk) personSwedish composer of the Amiga era (from 1989, most active 1990–91) who by 1995 tracked on a PC for the games of MAGE, the small development outfit he ran with friends, and wrote multimedia for a living. The single …
  • MOD module format (.mod) format"The first file format for tracked music on the Commodore Amiga": introduced in a basic form by Karsten Obarski's Ultimate SoundTracker, extended by NoiseTracker and protracker with more effects, longer samples and more …
  • Peter "Crayon" Hanning personCoder and musician of Mushroom Studios / Noxious (with Anders "Dolphin" Ramsay and Daniel "Knotis" Sindahl, Rönninge, Sweden), who took protracker over from Amiga Freelancers: 2.1A (1992-04-16), 2.2A (1992-06-22; chord …
  • ProTracker toolThe Amiga tracker that fixed the 4-channel mod-format and the effect numbers every later tracker inherited. Written by lars-hamre ("ZAP") of Amiga Freelancers on the basis of NoiseTracker (first version 1990-05-04, …
  • Quarex (Drew Hunt) personSixteen-year-old member of kosmic , epinicion and his own one-man group TFX, known for PORK.MOD ; the single source for this page is maelcum 's unedited IRC-log interview of July 1995 (source: s-tw019-interview-quarex ) …
  • Rainbow Arts group"The first big german games developer", which hired chris-huelsbeck on the phone after shades and had him in-house from February/March 1987: great-giana-sisters (label Time Warp), Katakis , R-Type , Turrican (sources: …
  • TFMX toolchris-huelsbeck 's second-generation driver, born on the C64 in the summer of 1988 and carried to the Amiga (and later DOS, SNES and the N64's MusyX): instead of only "the typical rigid instrument table" it runs "a …
  • U4IA / F8 (James Young) personBristol-based Amiga-generation composer of underground dance modules — over 150 released by 1996 — who quit as U4IA in 1994 and returned under the name F8; the single source for this page is his e-mail interview in …
  • Game Audio Network Guild — Interview with Chris Huelsbeck (2011) summaryA career-summary interview for the game-audio trade guild; little technique, but Hülsbeck's own one-sentence version of the Soundmonitor story and of his self-taught, tools-first approach.
  • ProTracker 2.3A ReadMe, 2.0A effect and format docs, version table summaryThe distribution texts of protracker 2.3A (1993) with the changelog back to 1.0, Lars Hamre's one-page effect list and MOD file-format description from 2.0A, and a later table of every ProTracker version and its makers.
  • ProTracker 2.3d help file (edited by echolevel) summaryThe complete built-in help of protracker 2.3d — main screen gadgets, Disk Op, PLST and preset editor, sampler, the two setup screens, MIDI, the position editor, Edit Op screens 1–3 with the chord maker, the effect …
  • Retrogaming Planet / EmuWiki — Interview with Chris Huelsbeck (2011) summaryThe interview in which chris-huelsbeck describes his actual C64 workflow — two machines, soundmonitor then TFMX Editor, hex numbers shown as A-2 / G#3 — and the idea behind tfmx 's per-note script.
  • tracker-history release notes (ProTracker, FastTracker, Scream Tracker, Impulse Tracker, Schism, OpenMPT) summaryClaudio Matsuoka's dataset of tracker releases — name, author, date with its evidence (exit messages, file dates, changelogs, Wikipedia), and "based on / influenced by" links — for the six trackers this wiki covers. The …
  • TW #17 — Interview with AmusiC (Popcorn) summaryPopcorn — signing as "TraxWeekly Editor" of "Hornet.TraxWeekly.MC3" — talks on IRC with amusic of Bass Productions in Athens, two months before AmusiC started the 20-minute-chip-compo . Half of the log is about the …
  • TW #19 — Interview with Quarex (Maelcum) summarymaelcum 's "complete and UNEDITED" IRC log with quarex of kosmic — some 7,000 words, half of them pre-interview chatter in which Maelcum vents about Kosmic's lost FTP site, credit for samples and the "Necros is my …
  • TW #2 — Interview with Leinad (Populus) summaryPopulus met leinad "by coincidence" on IRC and interviewed him on 1995-03-15 (14:57–16:13): an Amiga-era Swedish composer, most active in 1990–91, who by 1995 made multimedia for a living and tracked on a PC with a GUS …
  • TW #27 — Interview with Zapper (The Finn) summaryThe Finn interviews the-zapper of Force Ten at 4:45 in the morning, Montreal time.
  • TW #63 — Interview with Ryan (Kleitus) summaryKleitus (Seth Katzman) interviews Ryan of Grey — a 4,600-word IRC log, edited by Ryan himself, that is mostly jokes; Kleitus disclaims "the lameness that follows". This Ryan is Ryan Sprott of Grey, not Ryan Cramer …
  • TW #67 — Interview with U4IA (Mage) summaryMage (Glen Dwayne Warner) interviewed u4ia by e-mail over "a month and a half or so" — "a well-known Amiga musician" whose name, the preface says, is "known throughout the internet by trackers everywhere, despite his …
  • VGMPF wiki: Chris Hülsbeck summaryThe most detailed dated timeline of chris-huelsbeck 's C64 years anywhere on the web — a fan wiki, so every date below is second-hand, but it cites the interviews it was built from (listed at the end of the raw page).
  • Wikipedia (en): Chris Huelsbeck summaryTertiary, but with two things the wiki did not have: the citation trail (the 64'er contest was announced in issue 6/1986, p. 173) and a claim about who co-created TFMX.