Just a heads-up:

I just found the web site and contact information for "Ultra Force, which was the demo group that Bram Graveland was a member of back in the day. Anyhow, I just fired off the following email 😀

To: Ultra Force Development <info@ultraforce.com> Subject: Bram Graveland and Tetra Compositor […]
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To: Ultra Force Development <info@ultraforce.com>
Subject: Bram Graveland and Tetra Compositor

Message: Hello,

I was wondring if there was any contact information available for Bram Graveland?

I have a copy of the retail version 1.3 of "Tetra Compositor", which Mr. Graveland developed back in 1990, and was later published by Creative Labs. What I'm hoping and asking for is permission to upload the full version of Tetra Compositor (as well as PDF scans of the original manuals and box) to several sites on the Internet that I frequent.

I've been a big fan of Tetra Compositor since 1991 or so, and the program is really of large historical significance, as far as the IBM PC and module trackers in general. As far as I know, it was one of the first (if not the very first) module trackers for the IBM PC... this at a time that the only available module trackers were all coded for the Amiga.

Anyhow, you would have my deepest gratitude if you could help me in my quest to find contact information for Mr. Graveland, or possibly give the "go ahead" for uploading Tetra Compositor to various web sites on the Internet 😀

P.S. If you're interested, see my video tribute to Tetra Compositor here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpypDIkOm4g , as well as my tribute web pages here: http://jasonwilliams400com.startlogic.com/sno … eds/Echoing.htm and here: http://jasonwilliams400com.startlogic.com/sno … /weeds/Lars.htm 😀

Cheers, and many thanks for your time,

Rich Nagel

Nice! Hopefully Bram can be reached now. 😀

Malik wrote:

Nice! Hopefully Bram can be reached now. 😀

Unfortunately, not yet 🙁 I just received an email reply from Josha Munnik, one of the main Ultra Force members who are still active:

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Hi Rich,

I'm afraid I have no contact information at all for Bram Graveland. The demo group (of which Bram was a member) kind of broke up during our years at the various universities and with some I lost contact. I've tried to keep the list of members and information updated; but I have not been able to find any details on Bram.

I can not say anything as far as putting the Tetra Compositor online, I'm afraid it's not my call to make.

Still nice to see there are fans outthere and you managed to get it running on todays PCs 😀

Only thing I can tell you Tetra Compositor was not the first tracker, there were a few other players already existing (one of them programmed by me 😀. But I guess it was the first one distributed commercially bundled with the Sound Blaster.

With best regards,
Josha Munnik
Freelance Software Developer
Ultra Force Development

P.S. The tracker music players that he coded and was refering to are available here (at the bottom of the web page) -> http://www.ultraforce.com/en/demogroup.html 😀

P.P.S. I think he was mistaken though about the first tracker format music composing software for DOS and the IBM PC... in his email reply he's only refering to players, and not actual tracker composing software. IIRC, Tetra Compositor even pre-dated the old "MODEdit".

Attached is a ZIP containing my latest "Tracker" "MOD" format song, "The Gatorade Song".

An extremely simple Chiptune that I created from four samples that were recorded by striking a plastic Gatorade bottle in various ways (bottle cap on, bottle cap off, bottle cap on with bottle muted, and bottle cap off with bottle muted), Tracked using Fast Tracker II and MilkyTracker.

Hehe, I bet you've never heard a plastic Gatorade bottle sound like that before 🤣! Surprising, isn't it? 😀

P.S. A video of the old Open Cubic Player playing the tune here -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aqugJCh5DY

P.P.S. Download a MIDI and SoundFont version of the song here -> http://jasonwilliams400com.startlogic.com/sno … ts/Gatorade.zip.

Attached is a ZIP containing an old "Tracker" "MOD" format song of mine, "Computers On Line! (Redux)".

The song was something that I threw together for one of the "Cracktro" styled demo scrollers that I created back in 1994-1995. I created the pack of demo scrollers to upload them to various local BBS's (back when I lived in Miami, Florida USA) as advertisements for my new business at the time, "Computers On Line".

P.S. A YouTube video of the demo scrollers is here -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzi4K4ZeJCI 😀

P.P.S. The original complete scrollers demo pack ("COLPRES2.ZIP") is here download/file.php?id=12596 .

Hehehe...all these demo scrollers bring fond memories. Always amused by these. 😁

Malik wrote:

Hehehe...all these demo scrollers bring fond memories. Always amused by these. 😁

Hehe, and here is yet another:

This is a video of a "Cracktro" styled intro demo scroller that was created back in 1997 by some shady hacker, for some questionable "Warez" CD of the era <grin> 😀

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMmNdpPTovk

P.S. You can download the original "Tracker" format song file "OverDrive!" here -> http://modarchive.org/module.php?174120 ("OverDriv.mod") 😀

P.P.S. The original demo scroller ("RunMe!.zip") is here -> download/file.php?id=12591 .