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offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2006-06-27 00:21 [#01927915]
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ive come in to a bunch of old PCs and want to get some
software for them. nothing to fancy just stuff thats gonna
make nice bleeps and blops. does anyone know of any floating
around on the internet? the lowest spec is a 486 with 8 meg
of RAM and windows 3.11. any ideas?


 

offline roygbivcore from Joyrex.com, of course! on 2006-06-27 00:26 [#01927918]
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there is a program called nerdtracker which makes nintendo
songs on the DOS


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2006-06-27 02:31 [#01927945]
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Hmmm. Hammerhead. Doens't that run on old dos comps?


 

offline sheffieldbleep from Sheffield (United Kingdom) on 2006-06-27 02:43 [#01927947]
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The 486 will have trouble playing a single .mp3 file!
I can't think of anything the 486 would be good for today.
I've had Rebirth running (just) on a P133 with an old
soundblaster64 isa card.


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2006-06-27 03:00 [#01927950]
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I used to use Rebirth on a 486 DX2-66 with 8mb of RAM, no
problems...


 

offline Laserbeak from Netherlands, The on 2006-06-27 03:06 [#01927955]
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I used to run Screamtracker on my 486 DX2 with 8 mb ram. But
see if you can run fasttracker2, that's much higher quality.
that one was unfortunately not compatible wih the soundcard
I had back then (pro audio spectrum 16)


 

offline sheffieldbleep from Sheffield (United Kingdom) on 2006-06-27 03:19 [#01927959]
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I used to get loads of buffer under-runs even with long
latency on the p133. Could have been the sound card though.


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2006-06-27 05:37 [#01928004]
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thanks for those guys ill check them out when I get home.
Its for some work im doing with some kids. get 8 computers
hooked up with software. Place speakers around the room. set
all the software at the same BPM and let them wander around
making noise on the idfferent machines. its likely to fall
flat on its face though...


 

offline rogu rarebit from beggin' for leggings on 2006-06-27 05:41 [#01928007]
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Fasttracker 2


 

offline Dannn_ from United Kingdom on 2006-06-27 07:03 [#01928072]
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does anyone know any old Mac OS music programs? Ive got a
few pieces of shit with OS 8


 

offline plaidzebra from so long, xlt on 2006-06-27 10:00 [#01928171]
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you can run rebirth 1.0 on that.

there's a fun app called "thonk" that you could probably run
also, it processes soundfiles with a series of custom
algorithms.


 

offline Phresch from fucking Trondheim (Norway) on 2006-06-27 10:48 [#01928211]
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lol...hammerhead runs on a fukkin led watch!


 

offline mcbpete from Devon (United Kingdom) on 2006-06-27 10:54 [#01928216]
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I second rogu rarebit's suggestion for the ol' FT2. Used
that for years on my ol' 486 machine.


 

offline swears from junk sleep on 2006-06-27 10:58 [#01928221]
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When I was little my mate had this music software on his
Commodore 64, we couldn't figure out how to make tunes on
it, but we made loads of crazy noises. It came with a
plastic piano keyboard you stuck on top of the regular
keyboard and you could only play one note at a time. (No
chords)


 


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