TW #100 — Tracking on Impulse (Pulse)
jeffrey-lim's follow-up to #98, answering Steve Gilmore's letter in #99 and speaking up for triton.
Key claims#
- "Impulse Tracker wasn't written to make money" — no price tags, registration nags or crippled features; contributions of any size ("$5, $10, $20") are welcome: "If you bother about me, then I'll bother about you." The US$30 figure is only for the stereo disk writer for non-profit use.
- Hundreds or thousands of people had e-mailed Triton demanding Interwave support in fasttracker-2, and several asked Pulse for his own Interwave source. His answer: nobody has a right to demand features of a free program; if you want it, make it worth their while — give them a card, the programming specs and "at least a thousand dollars in cash", and ask politely.
Practical takeaways#
Historical: IT was donationware, FT2 free; the Interwave card was the 1997 feature request of the scene.
Notable quotes#
- "If you're not willing to offer something to them, then you should learn not to demand anything."
Relevance#
Confirms IT's licensing stance and records the Interwave episode for fasttracker-2 and triton.