Comments on: Dare you enter… the Nostalgia Pit? http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/31/dare-you-enter-the-nostalgia-pit/ the blog that is not dansdata.com Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:15:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: ratkins http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/31/dare-you-enter-the-nostalgia-pit/#comment-1418 Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:29:21 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/31/dare-you-enter-the-nostalgia-pit/#comment-1418 Excellent timing! I just moved and forced myself to chuck my small collection of ACARs (I kept the one in which I had an article published, of course). I also kept my two "Megacomp" mags (never found a copy of the first edition). What the hell happened to those loonies? That was a great mag for the times... Excellent timing! I just moved and forced myself to chuck my small collection of ACARs (I kept the one in which I had an article published, of course).

I also kept my two “Megacomp” mags (never found a copy of the first edition). What the hell happened to those loonies? That was a great mag for the times…

]]> by: Jonathan http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/31/dare-you-enter-the-nostalgia-pit/#comment-1364 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:08:48 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/31/dare-you-enter-the-nostalgia-pit/#comment-1364 [reply to comment 2] I've never owned (or even touched) a copy of PC Review and I have definitely read the article in dead tree form... [reply to comment 2]

I’ve never owned (or even touched) a copy of PC Review and I have definitely read the article in dead tree form…

]]> by: UnderLord http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/31/dare-you-enter-the-nostalgia-pit/#comment-1363 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 07:30:19 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/31/dare-you-enter-the-nostalgia-pit/#comment-1363 I still think many of the tunes in my mod collection are better than a lot of todays MP3s, and of course the samples in the original MOD format were losslessly encoded. Plenty of good tunes here if you're interested - http://mody_collection.tripod.com/#MOD I play them in WinAMP mostly mowadays, heck it still plays my CMF files! I still think many of the tunes in my mod collection are better than a lot of todays MP3s, and of course the samples in the original MOD format were losslessly encoded.
Plenty of good tunes here if you’re interested -
http://mody_collection.tripod.com/#MOD
I play them in WinAMP mostly mowadays, heck it still plays my CMF files!

]]> by: RichVR http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/31/dare-you-enter-the-nostalgia-pit/#comment-1357 Sun, 02 Sep 2007 08:01:11 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/31/dare-you-enter-the-nostalgia-pit/#comment-1357 Sadly, pack rat that I am, I have stacks and stacks of old Commodore magazines of various types. Byte magazine as well. Before I packed them away I would reread them now and again. I always got a twinge of nostalgia looking at the Commodore program listings full of Peeks and Pokes and strings of zeroes and commas that I would invariably mistype and then have to "debug" for hours. I also recall reading the ads for powerful new 386 systems at the bargain price of a kick ass Falcon or VooDoo system today. Sadly, pack rat that I am, I have stacks and stacks of old Commodore magazines of various types. Byte magazine as well. Before I packed them away I would reread them now and again. I always got a twinge of nostalgia looking at the Commodore program listings full of Peeks and Pokes and strings of zeroes and commas that I would invariably mistype and then have to “debug” for hours.

I also recall reading the ads for powerful new 386 systems at the bargain price of a kick ass Falcon or VooDoo system today.

]]> by: magetoo http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/31/dare-you-enter-the-nostalgia-pit/#comment-1353 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 10:01:17 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/31/dare-you-enter-the-nostalgia-pit/#comment-1353 ex-parrot: As bruzie said, that is the naming convention on the Amiga. I believe it might have started with NoiseTracker, and after a while, people started renaming music files from other programs to include a format prefix. Then a new generation of trackers / music editors came out, and an unofficial standard was established. The more "formal" standard was, of course, not to have extensions at all, but instead icon files with the relevant information. Too much of a hassle for many programmers, it seems. (And those .info files tended to not get distributed along with whatever they were supposed to describe anyway.) ex-parrot:
As bruzie said, that is the naming convention on the Amiga. I believe it might have started with NoiseTracker, and after a while, people started renaming music files from other programs to include a format prefix. Then a new generation of trackers / music editors came out, and an unofficial standard was established.

The more “formal” standard was, of course, not to have extensions at all, but instead icon files with the relevant information. Too much of a hassle for many programmers, it seems. (And those .info files tended to not get distributed along with whatever they were supposed to describe anyway.)

]]> by: bruzie http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/31/dare-you-enter-the-nostalgia-pit/#comment-1349 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 07:58:35 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/31/dare-you-enter-the-nostalgia-pit/#comment-1349 In the linked Wikipedia article, it states: <blockquote>The original .mod extension is actually not a suffix on the Amiga, but a prefix; mod.* is the standard naming convention on the Amiga...</blockquote> In the linked Wikipedia article, it states:

The original .mod extension is actually not a suffix on the Amiga, but a prefix; mod.* is the standard naming convention on the Amiga…

]]> by: ex-parrot http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/31/dare-you-enter-the-nostalgia-pit/#comment-1348 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 07:29:16 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/31/dare-you-enter-the-nostalgia-pit/#comment-1348 Why did the person who packaged that MOD file feel compelled to put the file extension at the start of the file name? Why did the person who packaged that MOD file feel compelled to put the file extension at the start of the file name?

]]> by: Daniel Rutter http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/31/dare-you-enter-the-nostalgia-pit/#comment-1345 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 01:53:21 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/31/dare-you-enter-the-nostalgia-pit/#comment-1345 Oh, lordy - that <i>was</i> originally a PC Review piece, wasn't it? (I <a href="http://www.dansdata.com/black.htm">say as much</a> in the Web version.) Yes, I do have a stack of old PC Reviews, and yes, I'm aware that the maintainers of the archive would like me to scan them. Oh, lordy - that was originally a PC Review piece, wasn’t it?

(I say as much in the Web version.)

Yes, I do have a stack of old PC Reviews, and yes, I’m aware that the maintainers of the archive would like me to scan them.

]]> by: Jonathan http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/31/dare-you-enter-the-nostalgia-pit/#comment-1339 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:08:11 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/31/dare-you-enter-the-nostalgia-pit/#comment-1339 The article in which you conclude that "black computers go faster" is still one of my favourites. The article in which you conclude that “black computers go faster” is still one of my favourites.

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