Chiptune.app • Hacker News Board

Re: Chiptune.app

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Post by terlisimo » Sun, Jul 16, 2023, 1:20 AM UTC

mdp2021 wrote: post #59

daneel_w wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And SID Factory and a couple of others.

Any recommendation for Multi-SID? There should exist a six channels GoatTracker - I am not sure anything else is available.

cheesecutter apparently also supports dual sids: http://chordian.net/c64editors.htm

Re: Chiptune.app

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Post by panzi » Sun, Jul 16, 2023, 1:31 AM UTC

I remember a classic Amiga OS styled website that had lots of chiptunes to download. It really worked like the Amiga OS, with movable, resizable windows and a file explorer etc. Can't remember the URL. I wanna say chiptune.net, but apparently that's not it.

Re: Chiptune.app

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Post by montag » Sun, Jul 16, 2023, 2:00 AM UTC

charred_patina wrote: post #114

Wow, I previously had this domain with a similar project hosted and just let it expire in March. I was really confused seeing it at the top of HN. "Wait why is my website on the front page of HN? I thought I let the domain expire." I don't mean to piggyback, but I want to show what I had hosted here before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pEvu_nC2LQ OPs project is obviously much more impressive, but it's cool to me…

Very interesting, had no idea when I bought the domain. Cool project, too.

Re: Chiptune.app

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Post by tangwwwei » Sun, Jul 16, 2023, 3:38 AM UTC

zeta0134 wrote: post #73

Jake Kaufman was kind enough to release the entire Shovel Knight OST as an NSF under creative commons, meaning we're allowed to host it and do cool stuff with it. So I'll take this opportunity to plug an NES visualizer I've been working on. Did you know the Shovel Knight OST can and will run on a real FamiCom, using Konami's VRC6 mapper? Knowing that, I can look at the register writes as they're being made, work out…

amazing visualizer! are there any other games or NSF you would recommend to load up in the visualizer? im not familiar with the world of nes music

Re: Chiptune.app

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Post by xp3ll3d » Sun, Jul 16, 2023, 12:46 PM UTC

move-on-by wrote: post #47

Very fun! I wish I could send a link for a song and have it play when it is opened. I have a friend group I would share that with.

You can link directly to a song. When a song is playing, down the bottom, click the link icon.

Eg. Sonic 3 ice cap zone https://chiptune.app/?play=Sega%20Genesis%2FSonic%20the%20He...

Re: Chiptune.app

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Post by kevin_thibedeau » Sun, Jul 16, 2023, 7:42 PM UTC

daneel_w wrote: post #157

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sample based tracker formats shouldn't be considered chiptunes. The latter is supposed to mean sound generated by dedicated hardware with automatic waveform generation, envelopes, and filtering. Doing it all in software by mixing samples isn't the same.

Sample-based tracker music and the Amiga scene is where the term and the artistic style was born. The Amiga scene and the musicians of that era are the authority.

That's where "tracker" originated. "Chiptunes" are a more recent denotation and imply hardware generated sound different than a tracker.

Re: Chiptune.app

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Post by panzi » Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 12:29 AM UTC

panzi wrote: post #172

I remember a classic Amiga OS styled website that had lots of chiptunes to download. It really worked like the Amiga OS, with movable, resizable windows and a file explorer etc. Can't remember the URL. I wanna say chiptune.net, but apparently that's not it.

Oh it was https://www.chiptune.com/ but it has an invalid TLS certificate now.

Re: Chiptune.app

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Post by post-it » Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 1:42 AM UTC

tredre3 wrote: post #136

post-it wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> as I had “cross-platform” mobile apps I'm on a four-person team building a React Native app. RN is awful, I'll admit, but it would be impossible to work at the pace we do if we were maintaining fully parallel Android and iOS codebases. Besides, it's the hardware's job to optimize for the capabilities of the SDK.

I was with you for the first paragraph. But that's just despicable thinking: > Besides, it's the hardware's job to optimize for the capabilities of the SDK. You can't possibly blame the hardware manufacturers for how poorly React Native runs. Even if the CPU engineers wanted to target React specifically and make it run better somehow (and you seem to think they should), where would they begin? React sits on top of 35…

I don't have any performance issues with React Native[0], so as far as I'm aware the status quo is fine with regards to how well the hardware is optimized for the SDK. The specific SDK I'm referring to is JSCore, obviously everything on top of that is third-party.

[0] My main beef with React Native is the total lack of useful stack traces. Also, when running on a device, when you tap Debug before manually setting your dev machine's IP, the app is bricked and you have to delete and reinstall it.

Re: Chiptune.app

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Post by montag » Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 4:59 AM UTC

move-on-by wrote: post #47

Very fun! I wish I could send a link for a song and have it play when it is opened. I have a friend group I would share that with.

You can do this by right-clicking the currently playing song title in the footer and copying the link. Dang, I wish this was more discoverable.

Re: Chiptune.app

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Post by montag » Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 5:43 AM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #85

God, I forgot how bad the Genesis sound synthesizer sounded.

It varies widely, based on both composer and sound driver.

Give these a try -

https://chiptune.app/?play=Contemporary%2FCatskull%20Records...

https://chiptune.app/?play=Sega%20Genesis%2FRolling%20Thunde...

https://chiptune.app/?play=Sega%20Genesis%2FTime%20Trax%2F01...

\https://chiptune.app/?play=Sega%20Genesis%2FShining%20Force%...