Why f*ck the FAC?
I think it started with some people not liking some of the FAC people personally. Also, many felt FAC Soundtracker was too pricey and wasn't 'all that and a bag of potato chips'.
The Soundtracker music replayer was slow and badly programmed.
I don't remember when the anti-fac started, but I think it had something to do with the development of MoonBlaster as well. I remember Remco Schrijvers bragging about how much faster the MB replayer was and bla bla bla. So FAC was dumped in favor of the competition.
And then there was the FAF (Federation Against FAC), headed by Fony (always teasing something 
), which kind of gave it a more humoristic spin. Indeed, it was cool to be anti-FAC...
But going back to MoonBlaster; look at the current displeasure in MB for MoonSound. Basically we have the same situation right now:
People are forced to use a product, because it's the only one of its kind. But they don't like it, because they feel it's not optimal.
In a much bigger scene where rivalry among people and groups was pretty heavy already ('We can hack the newest Japan release fastest!' and later 'We can show the best demo FX') such a situation can lead to hatred (in the more mellow sense of the word).
In fact, I think the only reasons there is not a anti-moonsoft movement now, is because:
a. they quit
b. there is less rivalry
c. there is less scene
d. msx-audio/msx-music sounds nice too (Remember at that time demo's mostly had music ripped from games, so there wasn't really anything to fall back upon)
You've all got it wrong 
The anti-FAC thing started way earlier then Fac Soundtracker and surely way before Moonblaster. The anti-FAC thing is highly connected to MSX'er "hate" for Commodore and especially the Amiga.
FAC ripped almost all their stuff from Amiga demo's Not only the looks, the idea's and Music. But their complete attidute towards the rest of the scene. Hayo Rubingh of FAC liked to present himself and the FAC as the one & only. Many people got irritated by that, also because their stuff wasn't even original.
Fony opened the first public offense towards FAC in Fony's Demo Disk #1 if I remember correctly. Before the FDD #1, only some minor mud was thrown by means of demo scrolltexts and stuff...
Anywayz, it's really sad this ever happened and even got enthusiasm in the scene. FAC was undenyable a pioneer in MSX demo's and MSX music stuff. Their work did not get the respect it deserved.
The problem with mbwave is that it's mainly a few MINOR things that are irritating.
If you ask for a lot, you can imagine that coders don't have time for radical changes.
But since there are such alot of SMALL, annoying and stupid !!non-musically-thought!! things, you get the feeling that sunrise really let the users down!
Face it, the card is from 1994, since that moment we're still using a program not half supporting the card for what it could do, and the other half is so full of annoying stuff that effectively you can use only 25% of the whole card. To the, back then LOYAL sunrise-users/fans, I'd call that disrespectfull.
So that's why you requested Oracle from Shad?
Oracle has really zippo to do with it
As a matter o'fact, I didn't even request 'Oracle' at all!
I requested 1 thing, that shadow made a dual player, which could play 2 independent mb tunes together.. these would be an fmpac tune and a musmod tune. The crap about making 'stereo' music in MB is that the fmpac and musmod shared the same notes, the same volumecodes (in the patterns), the same x-coders, the same slides, etc. etc. Esp. the volumecodes were a pain in the ass, since the musmod's FM definitly sounds different than the fmpac FM. What sounds like proper echo-volume settings on a musmod can sound crap on the fmpac, and vice versa. And what needs 2 channels on a musmod to sound fat, can be done with 1 channel on an fmpac (depends on the situation). I figured it would be the best if I was able to make the same tune twice, optimised on all aspects for each soundcard. This was to prevent ppl saying that the music sounded good on musmod-only, superb in stereo, and average on fmpac-only. When 2 highly optimised tunes, without 'overlapping/disturbing' settings/notes would play together it would really sound even fatter then you currently know of Not to mention that 6+9 would indeed be like having 15 hard left/right-panned channels, drums not included. (this last 6+9 option could indeed mean that the tune works great in stereo, but that you simply miss things when listening in 'mono') It's funny to realise that we probably didn't hear ALL an msx could do, but that the opportunity is now a realistic history.
Shadow actually supported the idea, but once he made a system for that player (f-kernel) he figured that he had made half a tracker already, so he decided to actually ADD that tracker
The result is ofcourse a typical coder's program, did anyone actually use it? In that time I was moving bits by bits to pc. So I wasn't overawed to use it anyway, besides, I was less interested in making tunes for stereo anymore. So, consider 'muzax3' as the end of my classic carreer.. The musicthings I did with ROM wasn't because I liked it, I was more interested in writing those texts.. it's like the footballplayer becoming a trainer
btw, The reason ROM died was because there was hardly anything to write at that moment, at least not each 2 months for a full diskmag. So we decided that it was better to stop. It was the era where MCCM wrote about gamebuilder, murphy's law, tons of dynamic publisher and childish art-galleries.. to give you an idea about the boring situation back then . Compared to today, you can consider that era as a big dip, back then it was getting old, today it's cool because it's retro
hmm.. getting late, and getting OT ..
anyway, your trivia is updated again..
