Re: MOD files

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <19971024000001.UAA04011@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
Zaphod1342 <zaphod1342@aol.com> wrote:
>I have some MOD music files from my Apple //gs ROM01.  They load up fine in
>NoiseTracker GS but when I transfer them to my PC and try to load them up in
>Scream Tracker 3.01 it says "Unrecognized Format."  Does anyone know what to
>do with them?  Please, please help!

   NoiseTracker uses bastardized MOD files; it's probably corrupting
them.  Stay away from this program and go with something that isn't a
sector edit of an incompleted hack of a program. Just as well that you
can't move the files away; then you'd actually be able to prove
conclusively that they're nothing more than a bunch of rotten files
('music' is more than anyone will qualify them as, even in this day
and age of raw noise masquerading as 'talent') to begin with, and that
all the claims are totally bullshit.

   What to do with them? Take any disk that's been infected with them,
and have a funeral pyre. Save yourself from the lies and insanity while
it's still possible.

>(Note: the files are from a disk called NTV17 I had a while back.  They claim
> to have "3-Dimensional sound" but require a stereo card, which I never had. 
> That is why I am trying to run them on my PC.)

   The only person to claim they're 3D (or 4D or 5D, which in itself
should warn you off) has been well known around here to be a
pathological liar and an admitted user of synapse-fusing drugs.  The
claims are completely bogus as anyone with multiple neurons will
figure out in very short order on reading the "documentation."
Professional sound engineers at work here were in stitches reading
that documentation, and used no shortage of colorful adjectives in
describing the mental state of the author and what illicit drugs he
was on when writing that load of technobabble.

   Unfortunately, said author was still trying to claim it was still
all true last time he was queried on the subject, despite the fact
that everyone knows he's full of it. [Well, some are trying not to
offend him, and others are sucking up to him, which isn't helping.]

   Bottom line: the only way you're gonna get "3D Sounds" from your
system when playing these sounds thru stanrard mono or stereo speakers
is if said speakers are airborne at the time, or you're consuming the
same mind-altering substances as the author. I treat my hardware and
neurons better than that, and I hope you do too.

Nathan Mates

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