Good Mods: Dawn (Filip Kupsa) - Waiting for my Sandqueen
Uploaded by: thefakevip
Upload date: 5/8/2026
Description:
Something a little different for ya this time.
This song was one of the 3 Scream Tracker mods written for the demo bb :
This demo requires computer at least as fast as 486/33 with coprocesor. But speed of 486/66 or pentium is highly recomended (especially for hight resolution SVGA modes). This demo does not require real operating system - works even under MS-DOS. For dual monitor modes you need secondary hercules / MDA compatible card. To compile demo you need 32 or 64 bit ANSI C compiler (no it does not compile under Borland one) and libraries listed bellow. PC speaker driver eats lots of CPU so running it at computers slower than pentium is really not good idea.
Oh my goodness, a 486 with a co-processor?! How will we ever manage to meet such stringent system requirements! 😛
Jokes aside, this demo (which is still available in your distro's package manager ) was one of the first things I stumbled across, (probably late one night, trawling through Debian or Ubuntu package repositories in my terminal as a kid, passing the time between school, sports clubs and bed, because that's the kind of kid I was and still am ⌣) which opened my mind to not only the beauty and craftsmanship of the demo scene, but the unfettered love and passion that defines tracker music culture.
Oh, and speaking of love, 😍 the note in the internal texts:
Bass.GP
Drum.Bass
Guitar.Lead.PM
String.Hi2
Drum.Hihat.Open
Drum.Hihat.Swing
Bass.Sine
Drum.Hihat.Closed
Drum.Tick
Drum.Kettle
Piano
Oboe
Marimba
Drum.Chime.Reversed
Twinkle.Abyss
Drum.Claps.fast
Flute.Panic.Attack-colore
Spherice
Guitar.Pluck.Bass.Plane
Real.Nature.OceanWaves
Vox.Speech.Scream
Real.Nature.Birds
Real.Nature.Birdy1
Vox.Speech.BreathIn
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This s3m has been made
by Dawn Music for the
demo called "BB".
This s3m is especially
dedicated to my
girlfriend Eva. She's so
far from me and I spend
so much time without her.
I'm waiting for you,
Sandqueen.
I want you to want me
just like I want you.
Your little man.
Composed:April 1997,Dawn
Length: 4min 38sec I share these mods and what background information I can find about them not just to bring you good music, but to tell stories. A story of a younger me, forging the passion for technology as a source for culture and public good that survives within me today, in spite of rather than *because of * the role technology is playing in our modern world. A story of a time in the not too distant past when we knew how to build beautiful things because we wanted to, not to bolster our job application credentials or extract rent from our users. A story of a largely unrecognised tracker composer (as far as I know) sat at his DOS machine, late at night, working on this track and longing to see the face of his soulmate, to hear her voice again, after so long apart, but who continues anyway, not for recognition, but for the love of the work.
Is this perhaps a rose-tinted portrayal of the historical record? Probably. But my message is this. Take the pure humanity and purity of the arts and out of programming, and we will lose track of why we invented these machines in the first place. Take the humans out of computing and we will crumble from within. Maybe, just maybe, it is time to return technology to the people.
TheFake VIP - 05/08/2026
Here's some background from the creator of
How this all started ====================aalibandbb:Once upon a time we've (my friend Kamil and I) bought two old
Herculeses as secondary monitors. We didn't know for that time that our
Diamond Stealths 64 cards would become obsolete soon. The next day we
downloaded the logo of Linux Texas Users Group - nice silly penguin
looking like a cowboy! It was so exciting logo ... we decided that we
couldn't live without it and we wanted to see it at boot time as a logo
on our secondary monitors. There was a small problem - Hercules doesn't
support color graphics. So we decided to convert the penguin image to
ascii art using netpbm tools.
The output was very ugly because the converting algorithm was
AA-Project ==========absolutly stupid. During the night I designed a new convertor that
used a font bitmap to creat an aproximation table. The output wasn't
very good since the algorithm wasn't tuned so well. Many months this
small piece of code was waiting on my disc for the day "D". Meanwhile I
started a new project XaoS (a fractal zoomer) with my friend Thomas.
And then I got an idea: Ascii Art Mandelbrots! I was really impressed
by the result! XaoS was faster, portable and looking much better than
ever before. I found a new way to go ...
Three goals of AA-Project:
etc..) on AA-lib.
Sharp).
AA-project was started by Jan Hubicka. In that times just a few
people knew about it. Then a new demo named BB has been relased to show
the power of AA-lib technology. Now the project is freely available and
anyone can help.
The Frisbee of Peace - 05/09/2026
I do not understand half of this tech jargon but am all the same thankful to have absorbed what I could of this story :D and the music isn't bad. Thanks for sharing your passion with us.