12.Aug.2024
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Online chiptune and music module player: Pixeltune
Back in 2014, Tomás Pollak, a journalist, developer and musician, released a first version of Pixeltune: a web-based player for chiptune and video game music that builds on a large collection of music that has been carefully archived over the years and indexed for quick and easy access. The sound is generated directly from the original files by emulating the sound chips that were actually used to render these files in the good old days.
He started his project because he loves music and MIDI and nerdy chiptunes on the one hand, and because he's a big fan of the demo scene and tracker music on the other. They would all "bring fond memories from the early days of the Internet-- the era of guestbooks, webrings and beautifully ugly pages, when it was a crazy place filled with weird and cool stuff!"
But also, there's a secondary goal and that is preservation. A big chunk of the music you'll find was hosted on websites that no longer exist. He wants to help preserve the history of sequenced music, and to honor all the incredibly talented composers whose creations still blow our minds decades later.
Under the title link you can find more than 250 pieces of Amiga music. Playing tip: Xenex (xenextitle.mod)! (dr)
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