quoted 7 lines This could be a complete coincidence, but back in "the day" of the>This could be a complete coincidence, but back in "the day" of the
>(future crew, renaissance, et al) demo scene, people used to write "chip
>tunes" for competitions; basically that meant the whole song (samples AND
>patterndata) was less than 3 or 4k, because of the "chips" of samples you
>were required to use, maybe 2 or 3 hundred bytes per sample and that was
>the limit. the end result was typically very "quirky" and/or
>"computer-esque" ...anyone know how Ken the Streetfighter got his start?
I always thought they were called "chip tunes" because they sounded a lot
like the music created using the Commodore 64's SID chip. I still _love_
the sound of a SID.
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