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Every DMG I modded ended up failing after a few months. 

Paid for some pro jobs.  Haven't had any problems.

LOL

One day people will figure out that the word "voxel" exists.

I think a PDF would remove some of the charm of it being a handmade zine

I made a gif of the flyer.

Software or hardware, the real appeal is the alternative composition techniques
(let's call it character) imposed by the quirkiness of the odd hardware or software. 

NES for example, the arp.  32nd note triplet arps are a really unintuitive and inefficient way to play a chord.  And now they become an iconic sound.  Going further, your channel is monophonic, it has a really limited tonal palate.  WHAT DOES IT DO WELL?.  Pitch slides!  You can do pitch slides with amazing precision in most tracker software.  The "vocals" of Moe Moe Kyunstep, it's a really stupid and inefficient way to do vocals right?  It's incredibly complex, but it's got a special character to it, that you don't hear a lot of places.  Because why would they?  You almost have to approach music from a mad scientist point of view to replicate a lot of these sounds.

Let's take for example the wrap around factor of the pitch bend in LSDJ.  We've all made our crazy noises taking the P command to it's HF limits, and part of that is because when it hits the lowest possible note, it wraps around back to the top possible note and actually descends at a logarithmic rate.  Try doing that with a pitch bend on a keyboard.  Try doing it on a piano roll.  Try doing it on a guitar.  The sounds you make doing that are ones that you'll never hear making traditional instruments. 

Looped noise, HF vibrato, arps, pitch bends--- both bass drums, toms and auxilliary percussion.

These are the things that bring the magic to chip music, the character of the alternative musical techniques.  It's not the clicky wave form, or the specific sounds.  Whether it's stock NES, VRC7, c64, Atari... it's the fact that YOU COMPOSE MUSIC DIFFERENTLY WHEN GIVEN THESE THINGS that makes it great.  Personally, most fakebit sounds boring to me because they're missing all the details, all the subtlety that makes it great, although there's loads of fakebit songs I love.

Love Wizzy, love Riders.  This is great stoof