"Best-of Mistigris artdisk", originally released on floppy at a Living Closet Jul 23 '99

[reluctance]

... and re-released Nov 30th 2014 digitally. I put the infofile to MIST1014 up here, so I thought that it might be worthwhile to stow this archive's infofile somewhere a Google spider might be able to actually read it as well. Also, it's a way of being accountable to you readers: you know that we released a Mist pack in October, and that we had

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[glowing_fish]

I've never heard of the .S3M and .LIT file types before today.

[reluctance]

Tracked music began as .MODs; everything before then was generally just sequenced and synthesized, but the .MOD-trackers allowed the (ab)use of samples, up to four channels of them. That was a good start for Amiga folks, but no less august an entity than Future Crew upped the state of the art with their music creation program Scream Tracker, which produced .S3M files -- basically .MODs on steroids. The door thus opened, two more variant standards followed, building on the achievements of the .S3M: the .XM music files produced by FastTracker 2 and the .IT files resulting from the use of Impulse Tracker. (Theoretically you may have seen *.669 floating around as well, a kind of fortified .MOD, but in practice it was basically never used.) We only need to discuss .S3M files here because sampled songs were relatively large in file-size, so the only song we included was a "chip" tune using square waves etc. for samples, resulting in a very small footprint

[glowing_fish]

I actually didn't know about RIPscrip either. But the file extensions just jumped out at me, since it was once my job to know file extensions