FastTracker 2

FastTracker 2 was an early successful PC .MOD-tracking music composition utility, early competition for Future Crew’s ScreamTracker but more clearly inspired by Amiga tracking software that preceded them both. When called upon to explain its success against such strong competition, some will mumble something about the mouse support, or give a nod toward the ability to “play along” with your song-in-progress in realtime using the computer keyboard. These half-hearted attempts dance around the most telling ingredient in FastTracker 2’s success: it contained a fully-functioning clone of Nibbles, Microsoft’s QBasic take on the classic “snake game” spectacularly depicted with “light bikes” in the feature film Tron.