#compo
- Compos — music competitions in the tracker scene conceptA compo is a competition with a deadline, a rule set and a vote; in the 1990s PC scene they ran on IRC, by e-mail and at parties, and they were the main way a tracker got quick, public feedback. The one this wiki has …
- 20 Minute Chip Compo (20mc) eventAn IRC competition, held on EFnet channel #ChIpCoMpO from September 1995, in which trackers had twenty minutes to make a chiptune from a shared sample pack; organised by amusic (Sotiris Varotsis, Bass Productions, …
- Tiny Sid Compo eventAn online competition for complete SID tunes — player and music — in 256 or 512 bytes , run by stefano-tognon (ice00) of sidin from 15 January to 8 May 2005, with the entries' sources printed and commented in SIDin #8 …
- SIDin #14 — Scarzix interview (Carsten Berggreen: JCH's editor, CombatZone, the return with CheeseCutter, 2015) summaryTognon interviews scarzix (Carsten Berggreen), a composer of the 1989–90 JCH-editor generation who came back in 2013, joined Offence, and made himself the public voice of the cheesecutter editor — the interview is the …
- SIDin #8 — Tiny Sid Compo, the 512-byte entries (Stefano Tognon, 2005) summaryTognon prints and comments the four entries of the 512-byte category of his tiny-sid-compo (2005): his own 15BB , Crue Gurl (A Life in Hell), Twone Five ( laxity ) and the winner Empty (4mat). Each is a complete …
- SIDin #9 — Tiny Sid Compo, the 256-byte entries (Stefano Tognon, 2006) summaryThe ten 256-byte entries of the 2005 tiny-sid-compo , with code and Tognon's notes — the counterpart of s-sidin08-tiny-sid-512b . At this size the players stop looking like drivers: code is copied into the zero page and …
- TW #24 — In Review: the ASM95 music entries (Necros) summaryThe first instalment of necros 's review column, "the best and not-so-best of the new music stuff out this week", devoted to the music released around Assembly '95 (ASM95). Ratings are on a ten-point scale drawn as …
- TW #26–#33, #50 — the 20 MeEnUhTz Chip Compo column (AmusiC) summaryThe weekly column of the 20-minute-chip-compo (20mc): its origin story, the rules, the voting system and its changes, three result tables from autumn 1995, and — in #50 — why it stopped after Christmas 1995 and came …
- TW #37–38 — The Death of the Chiptune / Chiptunes Aren't Dead! summaryA two-part exchange from December 1995 that documents what "chiptune" meant in the PC tracker scene and the effect of the 20-minute-chip-compo .
- TW #41 — Interview with Zinc on the Impromptu Compo (DennisC) summaryA short follow-up interview: zinc explains the ImpromptuCompo he started in #trax.
- TW #65–#66 — Tracking as an Olympic Sport, parts I–II (Blackwolf) summaryWritten from Atlanta during the 1996 Games: a mock letter to the organising committee proposing tracking as an exhibition sport, and a mock refusal. The joke describes, quite precisely, the compo format the scene took …