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What I'm listening to today: "Atari", HyphenPixel

Several things define "chiptune"; an underrated one is the channel restriction. Which this track bypasses by being made on… 2 Atari POKEY chips, a configuration easy to set up in modern trackers but historically meaningless. The only way to play this song on period hardware would be to MIDI-sync two Atari 800s and have them play a duet.

A neat, melancholy glimpse at an underexplored part of musical configuration space:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3jJtVTueYQ

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