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Yeah! Starting a thread for it is actually a really good idea!  I'd still really love to see it as a more fleshed-out feature of the site, but getting a thread started is a really good way to get the ball rolling!

I'll have to go through and listen to a bunch of stuff and really think about it, there are a lot of artists/songs that I think are amazing that don't get the credit they deserve.  I think what I might do is pick 7 songs, one for each day of the week, and then let another curator step in to do the next 7 and so on.

I won't make comments on any specific community, each one has their own ideals and social structures and I think a variety of beliefs is valid. I'm glad there are communities that cater to different needs.

However, I have seen a trend in which the more light-hearted members of our communities have been shying away from public forums.  There seems to be this movement towards taking chipmusic very seriously and while I totally accept the validity of doing so, I'm not a fan of forcing that on others.  Many people are just big fans of making music and they have fun with it, forcing them to go "all in" or else stop calling themselves chiptune musicians is just super lame.

I've had people that have gotten upset at me not because my music is too mainstream but because I used a soundchip they've grown tired of.  Heck, I don't do it but I don't see anything wrong with people who want to make mainstream music.  A lot of people in the chiptune community are upset too easily by what other people are creating.

Chiptune music has been around for a very long time and it's not going anywhere soon. No matter how much tasteless, shitty music people make, you'll still be able to make your own music.  I just wish people would embrace the similarities between us and come together as a loving community again and just accept that we represent a very wide variety of aesthetic tastes.

I'll upload tomorrow afternoon when I'm back home, feel free to spam my PM box if I forget.

Just wanted to bump this so that blargg and Neil could see that their brilliant NES software has been projected through a 4k projector at The TIFF Bell Lightbox Theater (one of the Toronto International Film Festival's flagship theaters).

I don't really care too much, as long as people enjoy it.  Hell, it's shitty if people steal my music and pass it off as their own, but I'm not losing sleep over it.  If people like it, people like it.  In the end, I'm making chip music because I freaking love chip music.

I'd love to be on netlabels, compilations, web radio, movie scores, etc, but really I just enjoy seeing people enjoy my music and have fun.  I've played some really big shows and some really small ones and I don't really treat them any differently, because there is always at least one rad guy or gal who's having a time and that makes it totally worthwhile.

I'd be interested to know if a lathe could be adapted to work with better material. Acetate and vinyl were the best they had in the 70s and 80s but we must have some form of plastic today that will hold together better.

Even if we have to use a press or mold process, surely one of the modern three-letter-acronym plastics fits the bill?

First of all, this project won't necessarily require any soldering skills.

Second, learning basic soldering takes 20 minutes.

Third, other people are totally free to use my software/design to make commercial products from it as long as they remain open source and credit is given.

Last off, I've been hard at work and as soon as I get my camera back I'll be able to show off the RasberryBoy v0.1!