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Kenz: When you wrote your tunes for games did you compose them in advance on a MIDI keyboard or suchlike or just write them directly on computer? I typed them into the source computer, using a word processor. I really was that stupid. I found that I had to distance myself from real instruments in order to write chip music, mainly because I wouldn't have done any work at all if I'd had any real instruments near me. I didn't even type in notes - I'd simply enter pairs of numbers, so for instance if I typed '42, 100', '42' would be the note and '100' would be the duration in cycles per second (in the UK, 25 would be one second). So 1 never knew what key or tempo 1 was writing in, but that actually meant that 1 could think more chromatically, which suited my fondness for random key changes! Also I think partly because of that, I didn't bring any preconceived musical ideas to it, I wrote whatever sounded good on the chip rather than trying to convert an idea that worked on the piano or guitar for instance.