5-bit Thief (Atari 2600/TIA)

[@OMundodosRetroGames]

Wow, straight square waves! Most of the oscilloscope videos I watch have strange-looking squares, but these are in straight line! 100% perfection for sure!

[@RushJet1]

It depends on the output of the emulator. I'm sure a real Atari 2600 would look very different

[@DMARrecords]

Low pass filters also cause that.

[@bryede]

They end up sounding the same. The chip generates square waves, but by the time you pass it through capacitors on the board, you no longer have output down to 0 Hz (constant voltage) so you see the rise/fall of squares, but the flat DC areas fall away.

[@nmuxelcrack9597]

anyway i like the square wave with stlanded lines

[@StopYFGA]

Some of them will end up shaping like a Utah

[@PrzeszczepiX]

Wow, this actually sounds more like POKEY than TIA. Amazing job.

[@ZeroPageHomebrew]

Another incredible composition for the TIA!

[@hyzzuh6404]

Jett this is Bol

[@ablestmage]

Does anyone who follows this channel know what happened to the channel Tracker Ninja? They were a small acct which posted S3M/ IT/ XM/ demoscene etc files from the bulletin board days, complete with preserved original instrument list messages.. but now it appears they've completely disappeared. It is a very tragic loss to the whole demoscene community I think.

[@notrandomtypek]

ModArchive and Modland, my friend

[@ablestmage]

@@notrandomtypek What about them?

[@nicco1690]

@@ablestmage They will have most, if not all of the files uploaded on Tracker Ninja. I'd use modarchive myself but either is fine.

[@ToddSAFM]

You’re hitting those bits hard. This is a great use of the three voices and synth.

[@DeMOSic465]

Nope. Its actually 2 voices!

[@thegrantster102]

Maybe I haven’t been looking hard enough, been waiting for something using the 2600’s chip. Awesome stuff!

[@fatimamartins5925]

This is not chiptune music,this is Atari 2600’s SID.

[@viralbox9216]

@@fatimamartins5925 No it's not SID. It's TIA.

[@QuickShark953]

Dang! You make the TIA sound like a decent chip for music!

[@ssg-eggunner]

The TIA is decent However Atari VCS' low RAM didn't do justice

[@skeletorthebest7204]

Giving me The Messenger vibes for some reason. I’m imagining this being in a DLC for the game where instead of swapping between NES and Genesis, you swap between Atari 2600 and NES.

[@Sinistar1983]

This is amazing, well above what the ti should be able to do

[@OficialDreamsInteractiveMedia]

this is mad impressive

[@OficialDreamsInteractiveMedia]

I don't remember commenting this

[@D4V3-01]

@OfDreamsIntMed dementia

[@UltimateExplosiveGaming]

why are you so good at this

[@3rdStBD]

H-ooooley shit! This is nice. Thank you for keeping at it

[@Yurnahe12]

WE TAKING OFF THE BEAT WITH THIS ONE!!! 🗣️🔥️🔥️🔥

[@steveluvscows2490]

Tim Follin's been real quiet since this dropped

[@DMARrecords]

Tim wasn't in the right time or place for atari. it wasn't as popular in the uk as it is here, and due to the crash, the atari fell off, and he started iirc in 82 or 83.

[@kovy6447]

​@@DMARrecords nerd

[@irridesu]

​@@DMARrecords 1985 on the speccy 48k

[@DMARrecords]

@@irridesu my bad, not good with dates.

[@ww1fan-b5h]

Sounds nice!

[@ashkirby8896]

This is a nice Tia tune!😄🤩😎👌

[@SamsungSettings15]

I love this!

[@gabrieldreemurr]

Nice Work

[@georgemcgeorgester]

we realy atarin with this one

[@CopShowGuy]

Better than a two-bit thief!

[@Evolution_BR811]

This song brings me a vibe from the Hope For Freedom theme from Megaman Zero 4, very good :)

[@NelsonRX]

I thought exactly the same

[@jsmclin]

Everyone likes Daft Punk, but you've got to admit having them score a Tron movie doesn't make sense. Hiring this guy to score it would make sense.

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

decent

[@yankovalsky7696]

My favorite "soundtracks" are "platoon" and "dylan dog", but I heard both on c64.

[@allseeingeyeoftheenemy]

This is a blast to listen to, except... the complete absence of a bassline during that melody at 0:15 is... extremely jarring, imo :/

[@RushJet1]

Yeah, it's basically have a melody playing or a baseline, pick one. I probably could have split the notes up more or something, but I might have also been running out of sound effect space in the tracker.

[@Patashu]

Niice

[@Lumpfriend]

Wowow cool

[@HCN-002OldChannel]

Is this a remix or an original?

[@RushJet1]

Original

[@HCN-002OldChannel]

@@RushJet1 okay, thank you!

[@internetchomik376]

Woah! How do you do that?

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

furnace tracker

[@abdullahajeebi]

​@@LavaCreeperPeople Don't think so.

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

@@abdullahajeebi oh

[@frostluigi9622]

That's awesome! Will you provide the source . ttt file?

[@RushJet1]

sure www.dropbox.com/s/e2kblhkcawsvel9/5bt.ttt?dl=1

[@rene.thomsen]

@@RushJet1 Awesome. Any chance to get access to the ttt file? The dropbox link is not working.

[@RushJet1]

@@rene.thomsen www.dropbox.com/s/5blz8jftkk5ly09/5bt.ttt?dl=1 try that one

[@SpaceFighter2004]

I’m guessing Atari music isn’t usually this good either because they were being lazy or storage limitations

[@Sinistar1983]

Storage and the tools were way too primitive for anything even remotely helpful in development. Pen and paper was the name of the game.

[@RushJet1]

@@Sinistar1983 It would have been possible back then, but it would have taken tons of time (and therefore money/dev time)... and we know that lots of game companies back then did not prioritize quality over quantity (E.T., Pac Man)

[@toretronio9030]

Let alone music wasn't even a big focus on games back then.

[@Controllerhead]

Also the processor and memory were busy running a game

[@cfothough]

@@Controllerhead Memory and CPU timing actually really wasn't much of an issue, as homebrew Atari 2600 games as well as demos for the platform have no problem doing plenty of things on screen while also playing advanced music like this. If anything the limitation was time constraints and little knowledge about the system's capabilities when it was new

[@Mandonglo]

Esta canción me recuerda a eddsworld por alguna razón

[@Ambush-7895]

4 bits

[@kovy6447]

Arcade music.

[@-originalLemon-]

The Atari 2600 is a home console.

[@kovy6447]

@@-originalLemon- the music sounds arcade-like

[@-originalLemon-]

@@kovy6447it does sound similar to the Konami bubble system.

[@kovy6447]

@@-originalLemon- ok