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In for my quarterly visit. Cheers to the OGs.
oh shit, hi!
fwiw, i'm still around just obviously don't read every thread anymore (or even log in very often - just did today to see if any threads needed moving)
ugh, i don't want to have to use discord too. already got roped into telegram so i could keep in touch with the hexawe crew & oxygenfad (worth it tbh - they're all great people)
i do agree with nitro on this, as much as i'd prefer a shift back to forums (being able to easily search for old threads has saved me so much time when troubleshooting) i doubt it'll happen.
I think real-life stuff has been a big factor for a lot of people too, like i've hit some serious chronic pain issues the last 8 years, other people i know have had rough divorces, etc. just the kind of stuff that tends to happen as the scene as a group gets older. honestly, it's surprising there are so many people still active from the early 2000s when all we had was the broken old nanoloop forum, the lsdj mailing list (on yahoo groups, of all things), & micromusic.org
everyone is sort of scattered now, i know i personally have to use 5 different social media apps to keep in touch with even just a relatively small group of people from the scene
i'll necro this because sharing samples is a good thing.. here's a link to a very web 1.0 page i made in 2 minutes with some sample packs http://www.soundcollapse.org/samples/sample.html
there's also the GB Cart Tool android app. I noticed it's not on the play store anymore, but i've got an archived apk of it here
8bitcollective wasn't a thing until 2006 (or very early 2007), nonfinite & kitsch both got into the gear game in late 2008, iirc (low-gain was the main US cart source through 2007)
I've never heard of one go for over $150-175 (at least after 1.3 came out.. there were price spikes in 2003-2004 when they weren't available)
tbh, unless there's something specific you prefer about the sound of 1.2, 1.3/1.5/1.6 are all better deals (& you don't have to worry about the SRAM battery)
rarely, though i'm one of the staff members so i guess i should check here regularly. but i've been dealing with health issues so i got lazy
personally, i just got used to there not being new posts here. guess i should start checking again more often since i'm still a staff member here (shrug)
but yeah, a lot of the scene has moved on to either using mostly non-chip gear or stopped making music entirely (including most of the staff here). and most of us who are left aren't releasing as much as we used to, i've been sitting on a bunch of unreleased material for years & i know i'm not alone.
then of course the fact that live gigs aren't really a thing at this point can't help the situation either
I never got to meet him, but his music was great. Sorry to hear that he passed away 
I can't even figure out what this thread is 
I've seen them for $60-75 recently, but it varies
edit: Also just deleted a four year old post with a homophobic slur and a mod quoting it and saying "careful" instead of deleting it, so I totally get why people don't feel super welcome here
Can you PM me the link to the post with the quoted slur (or report it) so I can get rid of that?
My preference has always been to "delete" (we have a staff-only section for "deleted" stuff) the whole post if there's a slur, those post rarely have useful information to worry about losing, just people being asshats
Edit: had no idea you were staff now too, Nigel lol
What they don't know is that most people viewed as gatekeepers in this scene (a) haven't really got much power & (b) lots of them (us? Am I seen as a gatekeeper?) are a little socially awkward so it's easy to think they might not like new people, but that's just because they aren't always comfortable talking to new people
That can make things seem like those of us who know each other are trying to keep new people outside the group, but it's not intentional (unless we're excluding rapists. That's intentional)
If you do try mGB again, you might enjoy it more if you use a tracker (like renoise or LGPT) to control it. You can have lots of fun with MIDI CC in tables
Apparently OP found one, closing thread at their request 
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