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In the 1990s chiptunes meant *tracker (Protracker, etc.) tunes with short loops used as instruments.
For people trying to play this in Safari: reload the page if you get no sound. I’ve some experience with safari on mobile and wasm. Audio is unfortunately quite wonky.
Searched for any chiptunes (in the original meaning) on that site, the only ones I could find are here: https://chiptune.app/browse/ModArchives/Dreamfish . Perhaps there are more? In the 1990s chiptunes meant *tracker (Protracker, etc.) tunes with short loops used as instruments.
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In the scene people always set SIDs and tracker chiptunes apart, because of how technically different the two are. There's an enormous technical complexity of having to emulate not just the SID chip (which still isn't 100% understood) but also the 6510 CPU and even some of the C64's CIA timers to accurately replay SIDs, whereas almost all sample-based tracker music from the Amiga and PC need none of that effort. Repl…
> also the 6510 CPU and even some of the C64's CIA timers yes, but also the VIC timers and the PLA. So basically you need all of the c64 chips emulated, at least in part :) I wrote a simple SID player for fun and I feel like it's 20% shy of being a full c64 emulator, all it needs is video output and keyboard/joystick input.
I wrote a simple program that transformed basic (60hz, no PCM-style hacks) SID programs to like sequence of byte instructions for the SID chip so that I could replay without emulating and the file sizes are massive compared to the original!
Here is an awesome single file SID player written in C,
The fact that the songs play instantly when you click makes me sad for literally all modern software.
Searched for any chiptunes (in the original meaning) on that site, the only ones I could find are here: https://chiptune.app/browse/ModArchives/Dreamfish . Perhaps there are more? In the 1990s chiptunes meant *tracker (Protracker, etc.) tunes with short loops used as instruments.
For me it meant sid, and a bunch of ym trackers on atari st. The mods where just chip style. That said i really loved those old chip mods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiptune
"The term is commonly used to refer to tracker format music using extremely basic and small samples that an old computer or console could produce (this is the original meaning of the term)"
Searched for any chiptunes (in the original meaning) on that site, the only ones I could find are here: https://chiptune.app/browse/ModArchives/Dreamfish . Perhaps there are more? In the 1990s chiptunes meant *tracker (Protracker, etc.) tunes with short loops used as instruments.
The folder structure is such a mess that I thought it only does midi but I used the search bar and was amazed by the crisp SID rendition. Should add a filter toggle to remove all the midi spam.