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by zozbot234 1508 days ago
This is a bit silly since good cross-platform trackers are available for free. C64 SID's I could understand, those are actual analog chips and the modern recreations might not be perfect. But making tracked music is not something that needs real hardware.
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You're missing the point though

It's fun

I dunno how much DJ/VJ/music stuff you do but when you have cute 20 year old total babes literally sitting in your lap asking what that is then it starts to click. Plus with the Amiga thing, again with jungle that 8 bit bass really pumps for such a cheap machine.

I think some get a kick out of working under limitations in order to boost creativity too. Personally I would start with renoise though I can totally see myself having a blast with octamed on some computer that doesn't even really have internet.