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Back in the 90s on weekends my dad would bring home one of the PCs from the high school where he taught. Other students at the school had access to it so it became a weird sort of communication portal. My mates would cycle over with a backpack full of discs and we would install, say Dune II on the machine and send it back to school. One day it arrived with a tracker, a load of mods, and some demoscene files and it totally blew our minds. From then on I wanted to write software.

I do recall slightly later in the 90s seeing guys using a PC with a tracker at a forest rave. Probably didn't have the pitch control etc so they were probably using it alongside decks. Nice to see that there's still work going on to make "modern" tracker software for djing.



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