this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2023
882 points (99.0% liked)

Memes

45535 readers
1273 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 82 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

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.

[–] YoorWeb 16 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I smell demoscene.

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Thank you, another for the "actually good tracks" playlist.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/qMEDyse-u_U

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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

[–] rdri 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[–] khannie 7 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (13 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

My intro to chip tune was a guy I met in the mid aughts whose hobby was using old electronics to make music, so yeah, I always thought chip tune was like ripping apart old toys and torturing them to hear their screams

load more comments (12 replies)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

fantastic video

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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

[–] tpyo 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] sploosh 41 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I liked seeing that someone's computer had .nfo files associated with Notepad. You knew you had found a fellow matey.

[–] Lev_Astov 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Wooki 2 points 10 months ago

You mean neo vim

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I need to do that at some point...

[–] Dicska 35 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/EMzGlRZfTNs

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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

[–] ieightpi 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Someone out there has been collecting the best keygens with songs and they don't even know it. And now their job is to release a compilation album on bandcamp or something.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

Fitgirl go brrr

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)
load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Oh man there was one that I'll never find again, I think it was on some XP keygen that I probably still have somewhere that I'll never run again... There was an epic walkdown at the beginning of it that I can still hear

Edit found it! It was Sony Vegas, not windows

https://youtu.be/cmdprbBOMT8?si=123SD8v6wha5YF1e

[–] Custoslibera 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There are whole Keygen music playlists on YouTube.

Don’t let your dreams be dreams! Find the tune of your past!!!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Sony Vegas - Key Gen Music

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Anyone looking for a good bunch of noises should check out Dubmood's Mighty Pirate Sessions

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

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

[–] solidsnake2085 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

CORE - Power ISO. I used to leave this running for hours. My favorite of all time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

CORE - Power ISO

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Wootz 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] voidMainVoid 5 points 10 months ago

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

[–] YoorWeb 1 points 10 months ago

.DIZ readmes, ftfy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

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

[–] ElPussyKangaroo 9 points 10 months ago

Fitgirl music tho 💯

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Now I remember this Pink Floyd album cover.

[–] yagurlreese 2 points 10 months ago
load more comments
view more: next ›