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Cheers guys, glad to hear people are still interested in this.

@unexpectedbowtie Wow, a full HT album, really looking forward to that!

Neat! First half isn't quite my cup of tea, but the second half really shines.

HoustonTracker 2.20 is out now! Comes with improved speed control, and several new effects. Also, HT2 now ships with ht2util, a simple savestate manager which you can use to import tracks from older versions (some manual adjustments may be required though). For a full list of changes, see the original post.

Get HT 2.20 at http://irrlichtproject.de/houston
New demo tune at https://soundcloud.com/irrlicht-project/hrd-4-da-money

And last but not least, a vid to demonstrate some of the new features.

Ok, a couple of words on the "decreasing diversity" thing.

As some of you know, I've been running chiptune events in Berlin for almost a decade now. My aim was always to promote the diversity of the chip scene, and I tried my best to have the most diverse line-ups I could possibly get. And I'm quite sure the majority of people who've attended those parties very much liked that concept. Only problem - there were hardly ever enough visitors at these parties. Because the sad truth is that 99% of potential party goers don't care about diversity, creativity, or whatever. Most people are finished at the end of the week, they just want to empty their head with some nice, simple unce-unce. The people coming to chip parties because they're looking for a unique, out-of-the-ordinary experience are a neglicable minority. So, if you want to run a successful party, you gotta give people what they want. Anything else is likely to be a receipe for an unsustainable business model (and by business model, I mean being able to break even while at least paying people's travel costs).

And that's the problem in a nutshell, basically. The audience for chiptune is already quite small, but the audience for diverse chiptune is virtually non-existent.

Might be a good time to switch to HTML5 embeds since all major browsers are going to ditch Flash soon.

Yippie-ki-yay! Great to hear you're making progess on this, even if it's slower than you wanted
I wonder about HDMI though. Won't that lead to a massive price increase because of the license fees?