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Well what the hell,

- got featured on the "noisechan and nugget" compilation alongside virt and co.
- wrote a track for the 'bitpuritans' compilation, which I would say ended up being my favourite chip release of 2013
- won winter chip 8 and famicompo mini 10
- started taking part in ohc's
- came 2nd in the aforementioned 6-week compo (to bryface)
- made a few friends
- composed more music than I have ever composed in a year - including a total of 79 ohcs and about 10 tracks I'm still sitting on that I have yet to release

In chipmusic terms I had a good year

"8OKTA" is LAZERNIPPLES by Raptor (Derris) Kharlan ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltwzwA7g9no )

(obligatory heyheyheyheyheyheyheyheyheyhey)

I saw the title of the thread and instantly thought you were referring to this comp: http://bitpuritans.bandcamp.com/

..I think we should all just download it and take notes

Firstly, I don't think you understand what "Techno" actually is (an unrelated subgenre of EDM). If you keep using a word and don't know what it means, don't use it.

Secondly, the limitation with chipmusic doesn't lie with the software and hardware limitations per-se. The most striking limitation of chiptune, and the one that gives it its identity in my view, is timbre. When you write chiptune, "fake" and "pure" alike, you restrict yourself to basic waveforms - usually square, triangle, noise, maybe others (like FDS-style customised waves). That is the main limitation in my eyes. Techno and other EDM styles (I use the term EDM loosely here) will tend to use more complex waveforms and modulations (FM synthesis, vsts, layers of effects) and can incorporate acoustic instruments. Chiptunes can incorporate those elements too, but there is often a pure waveform element lurking around in there somewhere. The techniques and style of composition does derive from old video-game music (and if you want to go even further back, very early computer music from the 1960s), but if you write a chiptune on Logic Pro using the same timbral, textural and other musical limitations as NES 2a03, you're not doing anything too much different (you just won't be able to export your song to hardware, and you're just using a different medium to Famitracker or MML).

At least, that's what I feel like chiptunes should be - people will certainly disagree with me, but that's my view anyway. Genre definitions can be blurry (esp. with electronic music) and I personally don't care much for them anyway. There are other techniques that are closely related to chiptune, like fast arpeggiation and low quality/noise, and maybe restrictions on range (though different systems have different ranges). But, I don't think that defining chiptune should be restricted purely to music composed on old-video game systems only.

Also, I echo a previous comment, that any form of music is riddled with limitations anyway whatever you write with.

(I apologise if I seem a little aggressive, and for probably making myself look like a slight idiot, but eh, I've typed everything and I may as well post)

^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ Maxo is god of harmonies

If you want to get "technical," s3x/mod/it/xm music can also be considered as "fakebit" as anything made with a DAW/midi (as it's primarily sample based). In which case, I'd also point you towards xyce, wiklund, zebra, joule, malmen etc etc etc.
I'd also point you towards some of my .xm/.it stuff, cause that's technically fakebit too, hehe (specifically, "Motorway" and "The Early Attempts")

PM'd (I've had internet issues all day so I hope it's not too late)

Always oversell/offer higher than you'd think... and never give away your price in public ;P

..at least that's what people have usually told me to do