#156: Challenge: Make a Chip Tune on an Atari Machine: AtariST vs Atari7800 : YM vs Pokey

About this episode

The episode features a challenge where the hosts create chip tunes for Atari machines using different sound technologies.

#atari #atari7800 #atarist #pokey #YM2149 #STOS #RMTTracker This season we are doing retro coding and retro creation challenges for every episode. We are calling this "Fill in the Blanks" as these are things we have always wanted to do, but have not accomplished yet. This time we were each tasked to creating a chip or tracker tune for an Atari machine. Jeff chose to target the Atari ST YM2149 using the STOS music creator and Steve chose the Atari Pokey using RMTtracker to target the advanced sound abilities of the Atari 7800. The RMT Tracker music should also be able to be played on an Atari 8bit computer, but we did not explore that in this episode. Fill in the Blanks Song By Michael Peters MBE http://www.thealarm.com https://www.reddit.com/r/atarinow/ Thanks for support from: Atari Legend, AtariBasement Atari Crypt BCB Coffee Boy, Daniel Beasley++, Barry Burkey Chris++ Dave the Velociraptor ED Possible, David L. Farquhar Jolt7800 Tony Longworth David Schmidt Daniel Stephens T1LT wesbrown18 VintNerd All music, audio / video production. writing and game play by @8bitrocket and or @fultonbot unless otherwise noted. (c)8bitrocket Studios #Atari #IntoTheVerticalBlank…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jeff Fulton, Steve Fulton

Topics covered

• retro coding
• chip tune creation
• Atari machines
• music production
• tracker tunes
• sound capabilities

Keywords

• Atari
• chip tune
• tracker tune
• YM2149
• Pokey
• STOS
• RMTTracker
• retro coding
• music creation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Atari, Atari7800, AtariST, STOS, RMTTracker, 8bitrocket, fultonbot, Atari Legend, AtariBasement, Atari Crypt

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