TraxWeekly was one of the two main PC

IBM PC

The IBM Personal Computer, commonly known as the IBM PC, is the original version and progenitor of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform. It is IBM model number 5150, and was introduced on August 12, 1981...

 demoscene

Demoscene

The demoscene is a computer art subculture that specializes in producing demos, which are non-interactive audio-visual presentations that run in real-time on a computer...

 E-Zines of the 1990s, the other being DemoNews.
It focused purely on the music scene

Music Scene (programming)

The Music scene is part of the Demoscene. It consists of people who write music in trackers. It started on the Commodore 64 with SID music used on videogame cracks. It spread to the Amiga and eventually to the P.C.. The music scene has seen tens of thousands of members come and go and has developed...

 and was for a time the central source of news on the Tracker technique and major releases in the music scene. It ran for 119 issues from March 12, 1995 to February 16, 1998, ending with a circulation of over eleven hundred subscribers. It established a strong format that included interviews, reviews, on-the-spot reports from major demo parties from all over the world. After closing it was largely replaced by Coplan/SceneSpot's Static Line

Static Line

Static Line was an email-based ASCII Ezine that focused on the PC demoscene. It was a monthly publication with strong roots in the music aspect of the demoscene...

E-Zine.

External links

• TraxWeekly.zip All 119 issues of TraxWeekly, archived on milkytracker.net