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XyNo wrote:

Holy damn Peter, it is so awesome that you continue your work on your editor for ST ! Any plan for release so I can finally try it after drolling on that video of yours I saw nearly 10 years ago ?!
The other tracker looks neat ! Do you know how they managed to cram that much channels on the YM2149+DMA ?
Oh btw I highly suggest you to make your own thread for your tracker updates. It will be easier for us to see your updates on this beast and this thread was made to announce the release of Checktrakk tracker !

Thx XyNo.
and sorry for hijack this thread.

yes he is using both ym2149 and the dma, 3 ym channal, 3 dma, and 1 dma drums.

my player is just a side project that i work on just for fun, but if it get finish, i do think i will release it, but there is still a very long way to go.
it is much broader work than I expected, it is more or less a complete rework of the program. 
and this time i need to be done right
so therefor i think, that i will wait before i do a new thread to its more complete

chiptune so isn't dead, but the coverage / documentation / journalism of chiptune kinda sucks, and that's why everyone thinks nothing new is happening.
the last thing that i felt truly encapsulated everything that was going on with the chip scene is STILL the reformat the planet documentary (though one could argue that was more a natural side effect of blipfest itself being intentionally cross-sectional with its curation).  even 8bc's top 3 tracks feature implicitly reflected the trends of the time, so you could check it out every week and theorize about where the artform / scene is heading. 

but anyway there used to be more central, authoritative sources that the whole scene could use to get a convenient slice of the scene at large.  That WeeklyTreats project (1 song by a different chip artist every week of the year) was pretty nice because it included interviews that also conveyed the featured artist's insights on the scene itself.  goto80's chipflip blogposts were great too because of his perspective as a historian.  aaand of course TCTD

nowadays, to get a sense of the scene at large:
- there's chipwin, which imho has a long way to go in terms of the quality of its written content, and overall has a very low signal-to-noise ratio
- you get what you can from chatter in various chip discords
- you go to chip shows / festivals in person and hope that the organizers are able to curate based on "what's happening right now" instead of "who can we get that's convenient"

btw that Latin American chip bandcamp article is great because it seems to reflect a real, mature effort to take a cross-sectional look at the current state of things, albeit a particular subculture of the chipscene itself.  more of that please.