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(676 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Hello you all!
I am Frostedtreeandsnowyfloor, new to Chipmusic.org (not to chip music though smile )
I once was registered on 8bc (memories), and after "that" did not join any chip music related forum nor website. Maybe I'll stumble upon some of you I met back then when I was more active. I do not only make chip music and I must admit I don't make it as often as I used to do, but I still love the particular sound of it.

I always was into music and when I was a kid, I also always was into (or playing with) my Game Boy (DMG-01, Grey, I found some picture of me playing with it circa 1992-1993, no wonder my eyes are all messed up!), I could spend hours on it, often riding my bike, finding a quiet spot and enjoying a Game Boy day outside. And yet I wondered : How do they make music that great sounding out of it? I was young and ignorant and did not have any interwebs. I had then many other consoles (I even sold my first DMG at the time, had MGB, CGB and so on) handheld or not, but always came back to the Game Boy and especially the brick (and the SP, only for gaming though).

Some tunes like Wario Blast, Nemesis, Kid Dracula, Bug's Bunny I-can-do-no-jump-castle, Wario Land, Pocket Camera (and it's DJ stuff)- Soundtracks (and many more) may explain why. Strangely at the time, I was not as attracted to our irst computer, an Amstrad CPC. Nice 3-bit palette but did not sound awesome.

When I began to make music with electronic stuff, it was with Sonic Foundry's Acid (yep, Sonic Foundry), and did a few good tracks and a whole bunch of cheesy sample based ones (which unfortunately got lost recently).
When I discovered how to make music on my Game Boy, you can guess how magical it felt. Not only I could myself make sounds, but I could use the machine I grew up with as a creation tool, and I understood the way it worked. May sound strange but it was really a good feeling. This thing has a soul I tell you. So today I have got many GBs, in a variety of colors I dreamt of when I was a child, doing music with them and ruining my eyes since 20 years ago.

I also tried other stuff like TFM, Modplug, LGPT (one of my favourites, I use it very very often), but really love LSDJ's interface the most.

I have a lot of tunes I posted years ago that I'm thinking of re-upload (if some of you want, who knows), some old-new stuff, and due to a data loss, you could even have some things 8bc I don't have anymore, especially graphics. And if you need someone to do a graphic job, just ask wink

Hope you didn't fall asleep or die while reading this long long post, and really glad to be here, looking forward to have great times here!
Hugs and Kisses, Frostedtreeandsnowyfloor!