[to11mtm]

I want to give a huge shout out to the UK magazine PC Format for the most absolute banger 90s magazine CD that I ever encountered.

It didn't just have Demos of new games, if you poked around you'd find that it had "this cool program called Scream Tracker 3" and a whole bunch of these ".MOD files" that played music that sounded like a CD![0]

[0] - Well, it was the 90s, and typical bundled multimedia speakers were so bad you couldn't tell the difference...

[Lorkki]

At their best they had an exceptional amount of demoscene / game development content overall, as well as several full (usually "previous") versions of various creative software like 3D modeling or photo editing apps.

Later on with the Internet biting into the cover disk magazines, they started to steadily fall towards the lowest common denominator and shift to the gamer lad segment. But I wouldn't have had as much fun with computers if it wasn't for a subscription back in the day. Thanks for the reminder.

[extraduder_ire]

mod files include their own samples, so they could have very easily been (close to) CD quality while still being quite small.

You only need to encode the notes you play on the instruments you use.