Editing FastTracker 2 (section)

=== Compatibility ===
FT2 ran with a custom made DOS 32-bit extender and it supports the [[Gravis Ultrasound]], [[Sound Blaster]], [[Covox]], and the simple [[PC speaker]]. This rendered the software rather flaky to use nowadays, as the recent [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] versions generally do not allow DOS applications to access hardware directly, let alone the fact that most of those compatible cards are built for [[Industry Standard Architecture|ISA]] slots, which are absent from recent motherboards. Due to this, hardcore musicians who still want to use FT2 often build "old school" PCs with the optimal (and nowadays rather cheap) hardware for the tracker, just to be able to track with it again.

An alternative way of getting FT2 to run is by using [[DOSBox]] &mdash; this, however, as accurate as is, has speed and latency problems, and one needs quite a muscular PC to be able to use it as comfortably as on a native environment. The release of DOSBox 0.7 in March 2007 substantially improved speed/performance problems. Other methods of usage include [http://www.deinmeister.de/gusemu/index.html GUSEMU] or [http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdmsound/ VDMSound].