• .mod sound files

    From Vlk-451@VERT/NECROBBS to All on Mon Oct 26 18:11:35 2020
    I'm on the hunt for good .mod music. If you know any good boards with reposotories of that type, I'm very intrested in learning about them. So far I've had good luck with Castle Rock BBS on Synchronet.

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  • From Warpslide@VERT/NRBBS to Vlk-451 on Mon Oct 26 21:44:00 2020
    On 26 Oct 2020, Vlk-451 said the following...

    I'm on the hunt for good .mod music. If you know any good boards with reposotories of that type, I'm very intrested in learning about them. So f I've had good luck with Castle Rock BBS on Synchronet.

    Not sure of any good boards, but this was always one of my favourites:

    https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=40748


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  • From paulie420@VERT/BEERS20 to Vlk-451 on Mon Oct 26 20:06:00 2020
    I'm on the hunt for good .mod music. If you know any good boards with reposotories of that type, I'm very intrested in learning about them. So farI've had good luck with Castle Rock BBS on Synchronet.

    I like BlueNote BBS for some cool mod music; the amount won't blow you away or anything, but its curated and I haven't downloaded much fluff. Worth a perusing.

    Be sure to checkout The Quantum Wormhole BBS, and his chiptunes style radio station. Further, there are files to download that MeaTLoTioN curated and again... light on the fluff, heavy on the hard.

    You can always goto modarchive.org ... they have GIGABYTES of .MODs... you can spin up random stuff or search; problem I've had is that they have so much archived stuff, its hard to find good curated lists. :/ However, if you wanna pull tons of content and sort thru yourself - this is the largest archive I've found online. I prefer just spinning up the radio @ TQW, or downloading @ BlueNote... but the web seems to have the biggest fish- good luck with all the seaweed.



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  • From Vlk-451@VERT/HAVENS to Warpslide on Mon Oct 26 23:38:29 2020
    Re: Re: .mod sound files
    By: Warpslide to Vlk-451 on Mon Oct 26 2020 05:44 pm

    Not sure of any good boards, but this was always one of my favourites:
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    https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=40748

    This is killer. Thanks for the share. I'll have to trove through the entire website now. I'll be sure to report back if I find any other boards with good repos.


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  • From Vlk-451@VERT/INREALM to paulie420 on Tue Oct 27 03:23:07 2020
    Re: Re: .mod sound files
    By: paulie420 to Vlk-451 on Mon Oct 26 2020 04:06 pm

    I like BlueNote BBS for some cool mod music; the amount won't blow you away or anything, but its curated and I haven't downloaded much fluff. Worth a perusing.

    Be sure to checkout The Quantum Wormhole BBS, and his chiptunes style radio station. Further, there are files to download that MeaTLoTioN curated and again... light on the fluff, heavy on the hard.

    Killer. I'll be sure to check out both soon. I've been listening to Keygen-FM after being directed to modarchive.org.

    You can always goto modarchive.org ... they have GIGABYTES of .MODs... you can spin up random stuff or search; problem I've had is that they have so much archived stuff, its hard to find good curated lists. :/ However, if you wanna pull tons of content and sort thru yourself - this is the largest archive I've found online. I prefer just spinning up the radio @ TQW, or downloading @ BlueNote... but the web seems to have the biggest fish- good luck with all the seaweed.

    Yes, I would have to agree that one of the big isses is curation. Hopefully I find this radio station soon so it can take the load off me selecting music for a little while.

    Thnak you for pointing me in the right directions.

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  • From Dennisk@VERT/EOTLBBS to Warpslide on Wed Oct 28 00:19:00 2020
    Warpslide wrote to Vlk-451 <=-r

    On 26 Oct 2020, Vlk-451 said the following...

    I'm on the hunt for good .mod music. If you know any good boards with reposotories of that type, I'm very intrested in learning about them. So f I've had good luck with Castle Rock BBS on Synchronet.

    Not sure of any good boards, but this was always one of my favourites:

    https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=40748

    That is one I have in my 'personal' collection. (I have downloaded all of the ModArchive torrents.)

    Here are a few more of my older favourites https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=71402 https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=34216 https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=171394 https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=64453 https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=47057 https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=65437 https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=171396 https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=136706 https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=74398

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  • From Bob Roberts@VERT/HOVAL to Vlk-451 on Tue Oct 27 14:24:20 2020
    Re: .mod sound files
    By: Vlk-451 to All on Mon Oct 26 2020 02:11 pm

    I'm on the hunt for good .mod music. If you know any good boards with reposotories of that type, I'm very intrested in learning about them. So far I've had good luck with Castle Rock BBS on Synchronet.

    Oh crap, that takes me back. I used to love playing MOD files, with some snazzy fullscreen player showing all kinds of visualizations. They sounded amazing in a world of crappy beeps and boops.

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  • From Ginger1@VERT/MOTHER to VLK-451 on Wed Oct 28 00:23:00 2020
    @MSGID: <5F973B87.11980.dove-general@necrobbs.com> I'm on the hunt
    for good .mod music. If you know any good boards with reposotories
    of that type, I'm very intrested in learning about them. So far
    I've had good luck with Castle Rock BBS on Synchronet.

    I've got some mods on my BBS (some rather good), if you can do dial-up.

    Cheers




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  • From Vlk-451@VERT/HAVENS to Ginger1 on Wed Oct 28 16:48:45 2020
    Re: Re:.mod sound files
    By: Ginger1 to VLK-451 on Tue Oct 27 2020 08:23 pm

    I've got some mods on my BBS (some rather good), if you can do dial-up.

    Cheers

    Unfortunately I don't, and I've heard from others that trying to use VoIP to emulate a modem isn't reliable. I saw an LGR video about some kinda Expansion Slot card that makes retro computers able to connect to telnet via wifi, but that's kinda the exact opposite of my use case. I would need to connect some modern hardware to a modem.

    Know of any cheap solutions?
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  • From Vlk-451@VERT/INREALM to Bob Roberts on Wed Oct 28 16:16:17 2020
    Re: .mod sound files
    By: Bob Roberts to Vlk-451 on Tue Oct 27 2020 10:24 am

    Oh crap, that takes me back. I used to love playing MOD files, with some snazzy fullscreen player showing all kinds of visualizations. They sounded amazing in a world of crappy beeps and boops.

    I've since resorted to the simpler option of ocassionally swithing to youtube and pulling up playlists. The one I'm listing to now visualizes in Impulse Tracker v 2.14 (C) 1995-1998 Jeffrey Lim.

    I'm trying to get a system set up with a window manager that uses software like that to play mod tracker music. Adds to the asthetic I'm going for.

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  • From Ginger1@VERT/MOTHER to Vlk-451 on Sat Oct 31 10:46:00 2020
    At 12:48 AM on 28 Oct 20, Vlk-451 said to Ginger1:

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    Re: Re:.mod sound files
    By: Ginger1 to VLK-451 on Tue Oct 27 2020 08:23 pm

    I've got some mods on my BBS (some rather good), if you can do dial-
    up.

    Cheers

    Unfortunately I don't, and I've heard from others that trying to use
    VoIP to emulate a modem isn't reliable. I saw an LGR video about some
    kinda Expansion Slot card that makes retro computers able to connect to telnet via wifi, but that's kinda the exact opposite of my use case. I would need to connect some modern hardware to a modem.

    Modern hardware to a modem isn't too tricky. There are a few different breeds of USB to RS232 adaptor which are cheap. I'm using a PL2303 one which cost about ú15 ($20?). This should give you a COM port (on Windows) or equivalents on other OSs, which you can point terminal software to. Then of course you'd need a modem and a phone line. I'm not sure how it would fare with VoIP. I sometimes call a US board, but I think there's sufficient fibre optics or even VoIP in the network now that those connections don't seem to work too well. Maybe that's just that one board - I need to do some more research. But trans-Atlantic calling is still quite costly, especially when we've become used to "free" telnet (me included).


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  • From Vlk-451@VERT/INREALM to Ginger1 on Mon Nov 30 15:39:54 2020
    Re: Re:.mod sound files
    By: Ginger1 to Vlk-451 on Sat Oct 31 2020 06:46 am

    Modern hardware to a modem isn't too tricky. There are a few different breeds of USB to RS232 adaptor which are cheap. I'm using a PL2303 one which cost about ú15 ($20?). This should give you a COM port (on Windows) or equivalents on other OSs, which you can point terminal software to. Then of course you'd need a modem and a phone line. I'm not sure how it would fare with VoIP. I sometimes call a US board, but I think there's sufficient fibre optics or even VoIP in the network now that those connections don't seem to work too well. Maybe that's just that one board - I need to do some more research. But trans-Atlantic calling is still quite costly, especially when we've become used to "free" telnet (me included).


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    I found this posted on Level 29 BBS:

    Message #6645 (686 unread)
    Subject: Re: Can I connect to this
    BBS with a commodre
    emulator?
    From: Miranda
    Date: 2020-09-27 17:12:36
    Connection: ASCII telnet at 1200 bps
    Replying to: bigzip, message #6631

    You can connect with VICE but you need
    to use a program called TCPSER to
    bridge between the serial port and TCP.
    I have used VICE with TCPSER on
    Windows, Mac and Linux hosts. You have
    to set up the serial connection in VICE
    and you need to run a C64 terminal
    program (try CCGMS).

    From: bigzip
    Date: 2020-09-28 00:47:35
    Connection: ASCII telnet at 1200 bps
    Replying to: bigzip, message #6647

    ATTENTION. THIS IS YOUR GOOD BUDDY
    BIGZIP DIALING IN FROM A COMMODORE
    EMLATOR

    Yes, it's true. Miranda pointed me in t
    he right direction (thank you
    miranda). Then I found some guides onli
    ne.
    I am using a program called tcpser for
    the modem connection.
    Then I am using a C64 terminal called s
    triketerm that has all kinds of
    dialing functions.
    Oh yeah, and the emulator is called VIC
    E.
    It was tough to setup. I was born way a
    fter the C64. I didnt even know
    what the hell a .d64 file was. Then I l
    earned it was a disk image that
    I was supposed to run. Lol. Okay, so it
    s like an .exe file for
    commodores.

    Well, Its 3:40 AM. It took me a bit
    over an hour to get this up and
    running. I am patting myself on the
    back for his one. I barely remember
    windows 98... so emulating a commodore
    was way out of my element!

    Sorry for any missing punctuation or ty
    pos fellas. The C64 keyboard
    layout is new to me, and theres a bit o
    f a delay on each key press.
    sometimes it is skipping a key.

    ONCE AGAIN THANK YOU TO MIRANDA FOR THE
    HELP. BIGZIP OUT.

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