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Warez and their .txt readmes. They would do that ASCII art by hand.

How else can it be done? Any attempt to convert images or text into ASCII art automatically looks at best uninspired and boring and at worst like trash.

There was an app for MacOS…7? I think. It was called ASCIIPaint, and it allowed you to draw these pictures using a mouse.

I think “by hand” implies making ascii art in a text editor, rather than in a dedicated drawing tool that lets you paint characters etc.

That’s exactly what I’m saying. Using pre-made characters looks cheap. Good enough for a 13-year-old’s geocities website, not good for something pretty.

It’s called “tracker music”. A “tracker” is a type of music composing software that dates back to the very dawn of digital music.

Ahoy has a fantastic video about how they work and their history.

If you wanna be pedantic, it’s chiptune. You use trackers to make chiptune. And scene music is a niche within a niche.

No. Tracker music is 16-bit, within tracker music the term chiptune refers to a specific sub-genre which emulates 8-bit music.

Only much later did “chiptune” become a catch-all for all old computer music, and in that context it can refer to music not made with a tracker.

Only much later did “chiptune” become a catch-all for all old computer music

It’s much later now m8

Yeah, trackers are what we had on the Amiga, and it was mostly just sound samples played at varying pitches. It’s definitely got an old school sound to it, but it’s only a low track limit that makes it different to what we have now.

Real chip tunes are where you torture an AY-3-8912 chip until it sings for its master.

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

fantastic video

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I had no idea what I was getting into clicking that link. Saw another comment about it being 40some minutes long but I watched the whole video, it was very interesting! I was tickled by all the things that I can remember from growing up that were referenced

An aside, do you have first hand knowledge of tinkering with trackers?

They were before my time. I only learned about them because of Ahoy. I’ve been on the lookout for music made with them since.

I highly recommend his other videos.

Especially the longer ones like “POLYBIUS - The Video Game That Doesn’t Exist”, “Nuclear Fruit: How the Cold War Shaped Video Games”, and “The First Video Game”. His iconic arms series is also, well, iconic.

He is amazing at graphics.

Damn that was an awesome watch. Came for the meme, stayed for the 40 minute documentary.

Seriously I’m 15 minutes into the history of computer generated sound and am still wondering wtf this has to do with cracking music. This is some next level autistic shit. 10/10.

Well that was a fascinating little trip down memory lane. Thanks for the link.

I smell demoscene.

Anyway, here’s a nice track for y’all: https://youtu.be/qMEDyse-u_U

I smell the same and can’t help but to mention just a few off the top of my head.

rgba / elevated
Conspiracy / Chaos Theory
Bran Control / Memories from the MCP
Andromeda Software Development / Lifeforce
Farbrausch / fr-041
mfx / 1995

pouet.net - go there, download and watch it yourself. Youtube is cool but real stuff is so much better, especially when you check the file size. Though be aware, some of these old ones don’t play well at non-96 dpi display settings.

This is art and I’m not even joking. This shit should have replaced wars.

Thank you, another for the “actually good tracks” playlist.

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This is probably my favorite tracker track: Strobe(.it)

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Strobe(.it)

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I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

Hearing those three notes of “Foregone Destruction” for the first time in umpteen years fired off a neuron that’d been hoarding the good chemicals.

Figma should put a banger in the login prompt given the recent news.

I wish companies did it now too, would be so much fun

Fitgirl music tho 💯

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