User Interfaces of the Demo Scene

truemotive

Yes! The details about trackers in this post are something I've needed straight away for a chiptune-related project. Thanks for sharing

weinzierl

Oh, the memories! My favourite one was on a C64 disk mag called "Input" . It looked roughly like this: menu entry 1 <-> * menu entry 2 menu entry 3 ----------------------------- with <-> a little space ship * a projectile ----- the ground You had to move the spaceship up and down and then fire at the menu entries to select them. Since the menu entries had gaps between them you could miss. You likely missed by accident even, because control on home-computers was not what we are used to today. When you missed the projectile was reflected from the opposite wall and if you didn't dodge, it hit your own ship. The little ship crashed to the ground and a tiny, just a couple of pixels, figure appeared complaining and dragging his broken ship off the screen.

userbinator

I first thought "Elite Sinus Producer" and "The Sinus Creator" were trackers specifically designed for creating nasal-sounding music; but of course the explanation for why the term "sinus" came to be used instead of "sine" is likely because many demosceners were from a native European background, and their language retained the Latin origin word instead of deprecating its usage in favour of "sine", as happened in English.

madhu_ghalame

Performance is important, but developer productivity matters just as much. I'm curious how this balances both.