**Impulse Tracker** simply rocked. For its time, it was revolutionary: 64
channels, 99 samples, REAL stereo support on the Sound Blaster (instead of just
hard-left and hard-right), disk rendering, and a whole slew of other completely
awesome features that made Scream Tracker obsolete, and dealt a low blow to
Fast Tracker as well. Of course the die-hard FT2 users didn't switch over
anyway because Impulse Tracker had a totally different user interface... and
what fool would want to learn a completely new interface after internalizing
all the subtle nuances of the one they have?

Unfortunately, since IT was written for MS-DOS — and in 100% assembly language,
no less — as time passed it gradually became more and more difficult to coerce
it to run on new computers, and practically impossible to use on non-Windows
computers. Windows-based trackers gradually started emerging (the best known
being [Modplug](https://openmpt.org/legacy_software)), and eventually a handful
of cross-platform trackers showed up as well, but none of these had the same
look and feel that IT diehards had come to know and love. Sure, they could
switch to something else... but what fool would want to learn a completely new
interface after internalizing all the subtle nuances of the one they have?

A handful of projects were started to make IT clones, the most prominent being
Cheesetracker. However, none of these programs were intended to provide the
same look-and-feel, lacked vital features like an entirely keyboard-usable
interface, or were generally unstable, and most of them were abandoned by their
developers. [Schism Tracker](Schism%20Tracker)'s main goal is to fill this
long-needed void.

## See also

- Scream Tracker
- Fast Tracker
- Cheesetracker
- [Schism Tracker](Schism%20Tracker)
- [ITTECH.TXT](ITTECH.TXT)

## External links

- [Official website](https://lim.com.au/ImpulseTracker/)
- [Running Impulse Tracker on Windows XP](http://www.fq-music.net/vdmsound.htm)