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Anything but new but no less interesting is the following piece of software, which we came across last week: The .xm Player in Javascript allows to play Fasttracker2 files directly in the browser.

Fasttracker2 for DOS certainly didn't make as much waves as the various ProTracker versions for the Amiga platform, but it wasn't inferior to the 68k version in many ways. Quite the contrary, the .xm format is a multi-channel extension of the .mod format and came - like so many other things - from the demo scene.

This project of Andy Sloane serves not only the historical purpose of preserving old formats. It converts the equally historical bytes of old .xm files directly into wavelike vibrations of air molecules - in the browser. Ingenious! 🎶