Fast Tracker 2 New Order Blue Monday (1997) MS DOS
FastTracker 2 is a music tracker created by Fredrik Mr. H Huss and Magnus Vogue Högdahl, two members of the demogroup Triton (who later founded Starbreeze Studios) which set about releasing their own tracker after breaking into the scene in 1992 and winning several demo competitions. The source code of FastTracker 2 is written in Pascal using Borland Pascal 7 and TASM. The program works natively under MSDOS. In 1993, Triton released FastTracker. This tracker was able to load and save standard four channel MOD files, as well as extended MOD files with six or eight channels (identical to standard MOD files, aside from the extra channel data and ID markers 6CHN or 8CHN ). It was only compatible with Creative Labs SoundBlaster series of sound cards, which were most popular on the PC at that time. The whole editor was a single 43 KiB DOS executable. Through 1994, the musicians in Triton released some songs in a new multichannel XM format, accompanied by a prerelease, standalone player. In November 19
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