Defo one of the best trackers out there. The fact that Purple Motion made this when he was 16 blows my tiny mind!
This was distributed as the second track of the 2nd Reality demo for IBM PCs in 1993: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Reality
Mod Archive page: https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=60395
A nice startup sound from the Windows Vista Ultimate Extras pack.
It's things like this that mean you can tell that Microsoft was very proud of Vista, it's a shame their vision was sufficiently disconnected from reality to delay it until Windows 7. These days we'd probably kill to have that level of [in]stability, if not in terms of crashes, then in terms of UI and UX.
Another one at ya! This is ST/01 and Amiga at its finest, none of that modern Scream Tracker nonsense. :P
Mod Archive page: https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=35151
What happens when you mix SID-ish-like 8bit music with a tracker format? Good things, it turns out!
Mod Archive page: https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=154795
Another banger. I've always pictured this mod as being great for some adventure / RPG game's main menu music.
Mod Archive page: https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=70716
One of the trackers of all time! Seriously, even though I know how it works, I still cannot believe that anyone could create a song so beautiful in only 432.75KB.
The next time one of you needs music for an audio game, make it something like this!
Mod Archive page: https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=55696
I think this may be my favourite modem handshake sound of all time!
The V.FAST protocol, also known as V.Fast Class or v.FC, was developed by several modem manufactures who were anxious to provide the additional speed possible with the forthcoming V.34 protocol. This protocol was a "best guess" of what the final standard would be. Manufacturers such as Supra and U.S. Robotics produced products using the “v.fast” protocol. It provides 28,800 bps performance, but lacks the advanced error detection and correction capabilities of the final V.34 specification.
Description from https://wiki.preterhuman.net/V.FAST
I doubt many people had these, most will have just waited for the V.34 spec, or more likely, had absolutely no idea what any of this means, and used whatever came in their cheap Compaq. 😆 It does 28.8kbps at a time when most modems were 14.4 (the V.32bis standard).
Recording taken from this video by Retrocet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0_HzMq51z8
Recently got a 9:1 balun, MF / HF up-converter, and wired it up to a big spool of speaker wire, and to my RTL SDR. Now I can actually receive stuff of interest! Here's some random chatter on 7217khz (within the 40 meter ham band).
I don't intend to make a habit of posting every single thing I hear, only the very interesting / odd stuff, but figured I'd post my first successful reception.
This setup is, to put it mildly, completely hacky and jury-rigged. Thaught I'd ordered a case with the up-converter, but apparently not, so it's currently in an adapted cardboard pillbox that I had to manually cut holes in for the ports, and the antenna is just strung through my shelves, over the curtain-rail, and into the cupboard. Also having some issues finding a clean power source for the up-converter, and dealing with interfearance from my laptop's internals as well (I need to get GQRX and the other radio software installed on a better shielded desktop computer), but it works well enough for now.
From the invention of modems up until the V.34 standard (28.8kbps to 33.6kbps), nothing more than an analogue phone line between two modems was necessary for achieving communications. But starting with V.90 (the first official ITU 56k standard, predated only by unofficial, manufacturer developed standards such as X2 and K56 Flex), in order to achieve the higher download speeds, ISPs had to make use of digital ISDN phone lines, and special digital modems.
The telephone network has been digitally switched in many areas since at least the 1980s, and the compression methods used in such switching systems limits the theoretical maximum data rate of any modem conversation, so eliminating one of the two conversion steps of a normal analog -> digital -> analogue phone call by using a digital modem on the ISP (or BBS) side allowed for the faster 56k speeds.
To determine what kind of conditions they're dealing with in order to try to handshake 56k download,, V.90 and V.92 modems perform a procedure known as "Digital Impairment Learning". In layman's terms, the originating modem (the one in your PC), sends a request to the receiving digital modem (at your ISP), asking it to make a particular noise. The originating modem then listens to this noise to figure out what data, if any, is being clobbered by digital compression on the line, and to negotiate around these impairments, to establish a stable connection, at the cost, of course, of speed. Upload speeds are not affected by any of this, because your originating modem is on a normal analogue PSTN line (telephone modems never went above 33.6k upload to my knowledge).
Because the originating modem is free to choose what sound is played during DIL, different manufacturers used different sounds, and so they can be used to identify what type of modem someone used to make a connection. An upstanding citizen of the internet has graciously archived many of these, for your listening pleasure: https://goughlui.com/2016/05/03/project-the-definitive-collection-of-v-90v-92-modem-sounds/
This sound is a handshake from an Agere softmodem, and is my favourite DIL of the bunch. If you're crazy enough to have read this entire post, comment below which one is your favourite!
Heard this tracker when watching a YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIkFcOOd1Ek) and liked it, so I decided to look it up and download it from the mod archive. You can find it here: https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=40685
I really like this song from the beginning of a This Does Not Compute video (https://youtu.be/rJUZAahpqRQ), but have had no luck determining what it is, and I've tried about everything I can think of, including multiple music recognition services (on both the whole video and this specific clip), searching the description and comments, etc. The most I have is that it's licensed by Epidemic Sound.
Also, am I the only one who thinks of UI sounds when listening to that synth? 😆
After discovering this song thanks to TheDude here on the pub, YouTube recommended an OPL3 (I.E. SoundBlaster) version to me, and I think it's excellent!
Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn3zPyLAqhU
The full version of Fintan Bitch, posted earlier by @mudb0y. Cheers to @dangero for being sensible and archiving our stuff, unlike the rest of TLE. :(
WE put ourselves through Eleven Labs' translation feature and back again, its quite the roller coaster.
Originally posted to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpLWg9U4uRE
A nice little ident that my friend and yours, @eagle_eyed made some time back in January, that I insisted he send me because it sounds perfect for a Lower Elements ident that we could use at the end of our podcasts (if we ever get of our asses and actually start making any, that is). This evokes memories of the PSP startup sound, as well as the Windows 98 shutdown sound.
For those who don't know, the Lower Elements is the name for my group of friends, which includes the author of this site!
Recorded in the same fashion as the last clip (not the same recording though). Uploaded as wave so hopefully Firefox will play it this time. :P
I caught the very end of the RRI transmition, where they tell listeners of the times and frequencies to tune in on,and play their ident[s].
Received and recorded in Stirling, Scotland, UK on a Retekess TR629 portable AM/FM/SW radio. The built-in recorder records in MP2 at 128kbps mono (the entire radio is a mono receiver only, even on FM).
I like scanning the mediumwave and shortwave bands for interesting odderties, I just simply don't have good equipment to do it with at the moment. By far the strongest station I can get from Newcastle is Radio China International, likely because skip is carrying it over nicely from the former Radio Canada transmitters, which were sold to RCI some years ago.
Made this years and years ago in Garage Band for iPad OS. Every loop comes from the "Blue Skies" collection, except the drums as I remember it. So basically, this is the song Apple wants you to make. 😆
Great historical advertisement (you, over there, stop laughing at the word Wang, yes you), great station ident, and fantastic sound quality! I bet most of you didn't know AM / MediumWave could sound this good!
Originally posted on YouTube by VWestLife: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAAObdsbGAE
A radio commercial for a computer store in Hauppauge, NY advertising the Wang Advanced PC, broadcast on 660 WNBC in New York City on August 18th, 1986, featuring DJ Jim Collins as the announcer. The Wang Advanced PC had a faster processor, more RAM, and better keyboard than IBM's PCs, but struggled due to its lack of full IBM compatibility.
1985 PC Magazine article announcing the Wang Advanced PC: https://books.google.com/books?id=xsMx9D2s6y0C&lpg=PA33&ots=_kKqaj1XKd&dq=wang%20advanced%20pc&pg=PA33#v=onepage&q&f=false
Received in wideband Kahn-Hazeltine AM Stereo on a modified Sansui tuner.