War Of The SuperUsers by Liam the lemming This is my first new module in ScreamTracker 3 format. It started off as a normal SoundTracker module, but I reached a dead-end. Just as well I found ScreamTracker v3 or I'd never have got it finished...! There's a story behind this one as well, of course. Well, what's a song without a story to go with it? :) I started doing this one sometime around January 1994, but I was inspired (again!) to finish it off after spinning off a whole tune (with a lyric! Wow!) in a matter of days. I spent about a week or two fine-tuning it to make sure it sounded *just* right. Eventually, I got it more or less perfect. And then I accidentally wrote another module over it. AAAARGH! Fortunately, all was not lost, as I had overwritten it over another module some days before. (One of the bugs from ST v3.01 - I've got version 3.21 now, and that was one of the many bugs that were killed off!) Where was I? Oh yeah, the makeshift backup. I'd taped the "perfect" version of the module before I overwrote it, and I spent several tortuous hours carefully tweaking the old version until I was sure it sounded right. This is the end result. And I'm well proud of it! The name was inspired by two things. One was the way it sounds - the gorgeous "bink" sample sounds a tad digital and the two-note tone adds a nice kind of electronic "hum" - and the other was the fact that a large number of my friends from the JMU got banned from the VAX mainframe by the computer services department (the much-hated CSD *ptooie*) for things which either they didn't do or were mainly harmless. It triggered off a war of words which is still going on today, and when I was listening to this tune on my Walkman one day as I went to uni I conjured up an image of a small solid core of users hacking into the network and waging war on CSD. So I named it War Of The SuperUsers. Well, I like it and I wrote it, so nyer! ;) Hello's to those caught in the crossfire... Lee O'Brien, Bryan Jones, Jon Barker, Chris Bruce, Russ Threadgold, Steve Reece, Dave Adamson, Ian Slavin, Shereen Walters, Shaun Barry, Rachel Duxbury and all the silent victims. Happy listening! And don't forget, if it's a CSD rule, IT'S THERE TO BE BROKEN! ;)
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