Do you know anyone who bought the Obarski Soundtracker?

[1988]

Hi,

do you know anyone who bought the Obarski Soundtracker back in 1987/88?

I've never seen the software on eBay or a box/disk/manuel scan anywhere...

[Galahad/FLT]

Hi,

do you know anyone who bought the Obarski Soundtracker back in 1987/88?

I've never seen the software on eBay or a box/disk/manuel scan anywhere...

it was originally a Reline internal software tool, it was never commercially sold as Soundtracker

[1988]

It was sold :)

In 1987, promising German software developers EAS were writing and producing original games software for the still infant Amiga. Obarski was a part of that team, working as both a musician and programmer. In that time, development and creative programs were still geared very much towards the "professional" user, few utilities existed which allowed for easy creation of graphics and sounds for manipulation by programmers.

As a consequence, most teams found that they had to write their own systems and programs to aid them in the making of sprites, bobs, graphics, music and sounds (hence the proliferation of tools and small applications which found their way into the public domain). At EAS, Obarski was responsible for a program which was later to be named "The Ultimate Soundtracker".

...

Realising its merits as a viable creative tool, EAS decided that The Ultimate Soundtracker was of merchandisable quality and so released it commercially in mid-1987. The response was not good. The words "illogical", "difficult" and "tempremental" featured in its reviews, with programs such as Aegis' Sonix and EA's Deluxe Music, still stealing the musical limelight.

However, Soundtracker was to quickly find its niche. Other programming teams adopted it as their own music creation system and, once EAS had given up on it and released the source code to the public domain, the legend began.

[StingRay]

it was originally a Reline internal software tool, it was never commercially sold as Soundtracker

Actually, it was sold. ;) Since soon after its release the various hacked/improved versions appeared not many people bought it though.

[Galahad/FLT]

Well bugger me!

[MrCheese]

Well bugger me!

You are a fantastic cracker but there are limits you know... :p