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The other thing with chipmusic gigs is they tend to be 4 or 5 acts on the same night, which doesn't really lend itself to developing a set beyond "the hits".   I'd rather see one act with a support like any normal gig but eh, is it viable?   Seems like being a bit more vague presenting shows would work better for artists than shoving the word CHIPTUNE or CHIPMUSIC everywhere, it's electronic music who gives a damn in 2016 what it's written on.

thanks, I put a little making of article for this on my blog  #devblog #blogdev

You used to be able to buy the Mods Anthology set (4 CDs) which went up to the 1995-1996 era or so, it's probably online somewhere and has a bunch of stuff direct from the composers.   I don't think there's been another attempt to do something so vast since because it's a ton of work and everything is pretty much online these days.  (modarchive,amp etc.)

I'm surprised the editor can literally run out of rastertime though, what sort of effects are causing that?

I'll be putting a bunch of fx into one cart soon so I'll upload that at some point.   Few bits on the screen above though:

* The background scroller is on a fullsize map but I draw each vertical line of it separately at a different y position to get the sine wave.
* The vector bobs are just sprites, pico-8 can totally do a lot more of those but my z-sorting routine isn't optimized.  (I pulled it over from an old pc version)
* The mirror reflection at the bottom is using memcpy to copy the middle portion of the screen line by line in reverse order onto the bottom area in a loop.  The copy skips every other line so it looks a bit more like water by being distorted.

Near the end of the Pico doc file there's a description of the memory map for carts and graphics.  This is totally worth reading about because some demoscene effects can be done kinda like they're done on hardware with this info and you don't have to think up a way by using sprites or maps.  I don't know if that's faster or not but sometimes it's easier to work that way if you're trying to do custom screen effects.  (glitch and copying stuff)  You can also poke directly into a map and have a psuedo-character screen like the old 8-bits, avoiding having to update a load of sprites each time.  (good for chunky effects like plasmas)   In the tracker you can poke directly into the sfx and music tables at runtime and do procedural music and stuff.  There's a thread here which shows the file format.

Finished my little pico-8 drum machine, play here.  Doing syncing by writing directly into the sound fx maps while the music player is running. I've only got two tempos here though with a bit of work I think you could make offsets into a series of soundfx to have more granularity.