I never liked octamed much, I went straight from protracker to screamtracker to fastracker II.
Milkytracker is a great fast tracker clone, and what I use today because i can use it on windows, linux or AMIGA.
Hope his health improves however. Octamed was pretty great when it was introduced, and innovative.
The problem for them I guess is all the windows competition, there are hundreds of trackers, softsynths and music production progs now.
Steven