Winter Chip XIX, by Agargara

Winter Chip XIX

by Agargara

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1.	chikurin [YM2608 OPNA] 03:06		buy track
2.	cofapav blanket [YMF262 OPL3] 02:25		buy track
3.	stone town [YM2151 OPM] 02:14		buy track
4.	acorn chute [YM2612 OPN2] 01:41		buy track
5.	pinecone pocket [8k module] 01:54		buy track
6.	wayward strut [MSGS MIDI] 01:46		buy track
7.	arctic tube [Roland MT-32] 02:21		buy track
8.	bang bang [SNES] 02:08		buy track
9.	cofpav compass [NES] 01:32		buy track
10.	coldline svalbard [NES] 01:21		buy track
11.	soul sieve [C64 SID] 01:05		buy track
12.	spines [24k module] 04:47	info	buy track
13.	wayward stroll [PC Engine] 01:09		buy track
14.	schlumbergera [Atari POKEY] 02:03		buy track
15.	dovetail groove ZX [ZX Spectrum] 01:20		buy track
16.	tiastep [Atari TIA] 00:46		buy track
17.	victuals [Commodore VIC-20] 01:44		buy track
18.	lonely snowplow [Game Boy] 01:33		buy track
19.	mario's lament [Mario Paint] 02:44		buy track
20.	bowl of raisins [wildchip] 02:28		buy track
21.	farewell to the sea [Sega Master System] 01:24		buy track

about

These are tracks I made for Winter Chip XIX on battleofthebits.com, an annual music-making event for making music with chips (sound chips, not edible chips, although I do enjoy both!).

I challenged myself to submit an entry for all 26 formats in this battle. It was a rush to finish all entries within the 1.5 month deadline, so I didn't have much time to spend on each individual track, but I enjoyed learning and experimenting with many different chips and formats and I'm pretty happy with the results!

battleofthebits.com/arena/Battle/8585/Vomitorium/Winter+Chip+XIX

※ some formats are omitted from this release because they were graphics or didn't fit the album flow, but they are included as bonuses in the album download!

credits

released March 18, 2024

Music and album art by agargara.

special thanks:
- the battleofthebits community
- puke7 for running battleofthebits and hosting this battle
- damifortune, for providing helpful advice and inspiring me to try completionism
- kleeder and utz^irrlicht for help debugging fluidcore engine for ZX Spectrum
- zebra for letting me remix his module pines.it
- tildearrow and the Furnace team for developing Furnace, software which made a lot of these formats more approachable

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Agargara Kyoto, Japan

A mysterious fish raised in the hanging gardens of a Sumerian mainframe.

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