I just tried to run Impulse Tracker 2.14 under OSX with DOSBOX.
Works like a charm. IT finds a Gravis Ultrasound Card (ah, those were the days…) and is usable and makes sound and whatnot; just the sound latency is a bit long… but that might be changeable;
I already love Renoise under OSX, but now I even can access my old tunes without rebooting that old windows machine 
here’s a screenshot: http://www.terhech.de/daten/it_osx.jpg
rock on
that’s absolutely insane.
i have no idea how to react to that.
it’s great to see that pic…
i haven’t seen that beautiful Impulse Tracker screen for a while…
Actually it’s the first time ever I see IT. 
It looks like sound tracker. Quite ugly for the time beeing…
To be honest, IT looks like Screamtracker 3.
I have had the the pleasure to work in Polytracker as well which had the same sort of interface.
IT looks like ST3? INCREDIBLE! 
that bastard Lim! he must’ve taken the ST3 code and reworked it or something…
of course it looks like ST3! that was the point!
it’s an old DOS based tracker, you know… 
so don’t compare it to modern programs… 
yep, that was the point… and that’s why i loved it. I used scream tracker 3 for some time, and Impulse tracker was great “upgrade” with same easy to use interface…
Actually i never liked FT2 interface…
Great programm which made me always gallous because it had the features I needed but I was too stupid to use it.
Does anyone know when the first version of IT (which year) came out?
And when did it have polyphonic channels and resonant filters already?
I googled a lot for it but couldn’t find any info. So if anyone knows a link, I’d be happy. On J.Lim’s site there’s no info about the date, just version numbers.
edit:
hey! this means war!
I wasn’t actually referring to renoise user interface, you know
No, you just hurt my FT2-heart.
Where’s your Nibbles in IT, huh, huh?? yeah, I had Nibbles, you didn’t!
Well, the pic said 1995-98 which I assumed was when it was developed. And I wouldn’t really say Sound Tracker is a modern program. It was referring to the first Amiga tracker which was made 7 (?) years before. Design could have evolved a bit more since that time…
I don’t know, i was quite satisfied with the interface back then.
And i wouldn’t say that FT2 witch was very popular at the same time was more “beautiful” than IT
IT ruled and the Chris Jarvis’ song “Blue Flame” is absolutely awesome!
I have a special computer with Dos 6.22 + Win 3.11 equipped with original SB 16 just to run those oldschool stuff. Including IT and Little Big Adventure of course 
Look how tiny it is!!! Have you ever seen a screenshot of Pro Tracker? That is hardly bigger than this smiley -> 
Couldn’t find a screenshot of Soundtracker, so here is Noisetracker instead… How THIS is beautilful
haha, even my gameboy has a bigger screen; man those resolution were top notch; running fast tracker 2 now usually gives me this weird feeling, too
@Gilli:
the resonant filters patch was a xmas present for IT users, i think it came out either in 1997 or 1998, i’d guess 1998 as all my .it files which actually use filters are from 1999; but then again it might be that i just found them too late;
EDIT:
the filters appeared first on 21.12.1997 in IT2.14 Patch 3
ok, just for the heck of it, I created another screenshot, this time running several old trackers funny stuff; i just thought about creating a track where every tracker plays one instrument, oh well…
Hey, thanks a lot for the info, el Zeratulo! That was really a big help!
And a neat picture you gave us there. Interesting enough for me as a PC-user to see Renoise running on a Mac. I think I’ll also install DOSBox here.
Btw, el Zeratulo, have a little look into the tigc-thread, thanks.
Well I just had another try making FT2 run in Dosbox and this try I succeeded! But, to bad I couldn’t use higher than 8000 khz, or else it wouldn’t run smooth 
Anyone who knows any solution to this problem?
My brain hurts! 
After reading this thread, I was inspired to try running DOSBOX and FT2 on my iMac G5 1.8GHZ machine.
The results were slow and steady chugging, clipping, etc. I even did the overclock & framerate skip using the appropriate control-function keys.
Any tips?
