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agreed, the retro thing has got to stop.  and bleating on about the hardware they use, save it for Future Music or something.

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Hmm.. I dunno, aesthetically people have been using the basic waveforms as long as there has been the ability to generate them.   What makes chip sound 'chip' is the waveforms and some manipulation techniques that were evolved on synthesizers (such as arpeggio and vibrato), developed way before any of the devices we'd commonly describe as chipmusic devices.  As can be seen from the many early copies of classical pieces (how many 'Switched on Bach' clones are on c64?) and electronic tracks (such as Jarre, Kraftwerk, Gershon Kingsley), chipmusic authors were trying to get the sound of synthesizers onto their home computers. While it's evolved from that point since, we are basically a subset of the synthesizer generation.   I mean, as an example Raymond Scott was doing this in the '50s and it basically sounds like SID music:

Where it has evolved is in the use of digital samples with the waveforms, now that is a move away from the basic elements.

Jellica: I think it's Flash Gordon. [edit: ahh, yeah sorry the bassline is Wizball.  there's a bit of sampling from Turbo Outrun as well)