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Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 17:35:05 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

Tim Follin on writing chip music for games in the 80s:
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1. 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.
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- Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2024 17:36:47 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾
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  Archive of Tim Follin's 3" Tatung Einstein floppy discs with source code for some of his work from back in the day:
  https://github.com/breakintoprogram/archive-follin/tree/main
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  1. GitHub - breakintoprogram/archive-follin: An archive of music source code and drivers donated by Tim and Geoff Follin.
    
    An archive of music source code and drivers donated by Tim and Geoff Follin. - GitHub - breakintoprogram/archive-follin: An archive of music source code and drivers donated by Tim and Geoff Follin.
- Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 00:59:40 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾
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  - flynn
  @flynn Some work is being done as we speak in an attempt to recover more.
  
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- flynn@digipres.club's status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 00:59:41 UTC flynn
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  @dosnostalgic Thanks for the tip. It really belongs to a museum. A shame about damaged data though...
  
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- PixelPerfectEngine (pixelperfectengine@peoplemaking.games)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 18:06:38 UTC PixelPerfectEngine
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  @dosnostalgic my game engine now allows anyone to relive this experience.
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- Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 18:06:38 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾
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  @PixelPerfectEngine His was a bit differently organized
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