#Retrocomputing enthusiasts, #chiptune fans, #MSDOS buffs -- I'm looking for a particular piece of software, and I'm hoping one of you remembers.
In maybe the 1992 to 1995 time frame, I had a DOS multi-format module player (at least #Amiga MODs and S3M files) that I'd like to find again. In my memory it was a player, not a tracker, but I'm not 100% certain it couldn't track. It had a gradient-colored bar for each channel, which was at least capable of being a cyan color.
@dhrystone No, but that's the right era (maybe a little late, I'm not sure?). It's none of the players I've easily found just doing image searches and such (which includes cubic).
The display was all very VGA-video and kind of monochromatic, as I recall it was cyan and blues, but perhaps that was an option.
@elb Cubic was just about the most popular DOS player, I remember being thrilled I could run it in 60-rows mode on my Tseng Labs card. You might be remembering a combination tracker/player like ImpulseTracker though. (I composed with that for many years)
@dhrystone I definitely did use impulse, but that's not the one I'm thinking of -- it's certainly possible that it was just the player portion of a tracker, though.
I've looked for it off and on over the years, and it's possible that it just wasn't popular and it's gone now. I'm sure I downloaded it from a local BBS, in the pre-Internet (for me) days.
@dhrystone I think whatever version of IT I used was more taupe and earth tones, but that might also have been scream tracker, the memory fades. ;-)
The player I'm looking for dedicated at least 1/3 or so of the screen to big wide VU bars for the individual channels (very wide for 4-channel MODs, narrower for S3M or other formats with more channels), and had...something at the top and I think channel descriptions at the bottom. What I remember being most taken width was the bouncing bars.
I recall that the gradient bar could be centered or come up from the bottom for each channel, and bounced with the channel amplitude. For mods it would have 4 channels, for S3M, more. I believe it had the instrument names in a table at the bottom (or whatever text the module author put in there). It ran in DOS and worked either with Sound Blaster or ProAudio Spectrum 16 sound cards (I had the latter, but it has good SB compatibility).
@pixel This isn't one I'd seen in my recent searches, but unfortunately it's not that. The one I'm looking for has a mostly black (as I recall) background with a kind of synthwave-ish feel.
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