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Chiptune.app
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Re: Chiptune.app
#82Very cool but... there's my favourite track, Foregone Destruction from UT99, but can't link it because the URL is too long, and for some reason the song skips. :(
For the nostalgia, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_0G6WPuss4
Re: Chiptune.app
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's just a variation of the standard "all modern software is garbage because Facebook and Twitter are garbage" nonsense complaint.
Replace "Facebook and Twitter" with "Electron" and you would be right.
Would these not play instantly in electron too?
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#85God, I forgot how bad the Genesis sound synthesizer sounded.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
emphasis on that an old computer or console could produce (this is the original meaning of the term) chiptunes on Amiga (mod, xm) where reproducing samples of the sounds created with HW synthesizers (CHIPs), like, for example, the C64 SID, one of the most popular ever. For example the intro of "Cannon Fodder"[1] on the Amiga is not considered a chiptune, because it used samples from real instruments and a human singe…
"emphasis on that an old computer or console could produce (this is the original meaning of the term)" Yes, old computers and consoles with sampling capabilities. Chiptune means to "emulate" older sound chips with sampling hardware. In the nineties SID music was just SIDs. "For example the intro of "Cannon Fodder"[1] on the Amiga is not considered a chiptune, because it used samples from real instruments and a human…
I was there too.
Not disagreeing with what you wrote, I was replying to "Absolutely no one referred to SID, YM etc. tunes as chiptunes in the *nineties*"
They absolutely did in the 90s.
I was organizing chiptunes nights in my city in Italy in the late 90s early 2000s and we were calling it either 8bit music, chip music or chiptunes.
I did not invent the format, I discovered it in Berlin at the times.
The guys in Berlin told me that they imported it from Tokyo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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#87Dunno who made this site, but I have feedback:
1. The on-site Feedback link sends you to Twitter where you must become a paid, "verified user" to message the author. I am not signing up for Twitter, much less PAYING for Twitter, to provide feedback.
2. Would be good if you could link directly to a track on the website.
3. You should be able to click anywhere on the current row to start playing a track. Currently you have to click the track's actual filename. Clickin the empty space after the filename does nothing.
4. There could be a top list / chart or at least a handful of tracks on the home page which users can start playing right away instead of having to manually search for something.
5. No Bach in the classical folder?!
6. Open source?
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Replace "Facebook and Twitter" with "Electron" and you would be right.
Would these not play instantly in electron too?
If you have 5 terabytes of RAM, electron is perfect.
I hate electron and the CTOs that use it almost as much as I had “cross-platform” mobile apps.
That sort of garbage is coding to the lowest common denominator of device rather than optimizing the app for the capabilities of the hardware.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Absolutely no one referred to SID, YM etc. tunes as chiptunes in the nineties. 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)"
emphasis on that an old computer or console could produce (this is the original meaning of the term) chiptunes on Amiga (mod, xm) where reproducing samples of the sounds created with HW synthesizers (CHIPs), like, for example, the C64 SID, one of the most popular ever. For example the intro of "Cannon Fodder"[1] on the Amiga is not considered a chiptune, because it used samples from real instruments and a human singe…
> For some original true chiptune, see the amazing work of the amazing Rob Hubbard
His Commando tune is pure gold, I still love it after about 40 years since the 1st listen. A real song that I plan to make a rock cover one day, hopefully before I die (did I say I'm quite lazy?:) Others already did metal covers, sometimes with good results [0]. My idea is to keep it funky like the original and use mostly real instruments.
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#90Great app. Though the files for 'The Elder Scrolls - Arena' seem to be missing.