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The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

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695 points atan2 | 4 comments | 13 Nov 24 18:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.975s | source
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dm319 ◴[13 Nov 24 20:22 UTC] No.42129557[source]▶
If anyone wants to see a continuation of this subculture, have a look at this:

https://youtu.be/V_akDC1ztXQ?si=wxMOxlfvaN4IRSnw

and this:

https://youtu.be/iD9xk3SDSYc?si=KD5TvSg4UDMb-sh8

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1. jamal-kumar ◴[13 Nov 24 20:29 UTC] No.42129631[source]▶
People making entire mixes with two amiga 500s between a mixer and entirely new tracks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2k9eMuRwGw

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2. alt227 ◴[14 Nov 24 13:09 UTC] No.42135836[source]▶
This is awesome.

I used to run a Jungle night, and once we booked Paradox to play. He brought his entire Amiga set up and we had to replace the decks with it for his set. He had to load each track from a floppy disk and it took like 2-3 mins whilst the beat of the previous track would play out and the crowd waited for the next track to load. Crazy seeing a whole dancefloor chilling waiting for a floppy disk to load up!

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3. jamal-kumar ◴[14 Nov 24 15:51 UTC] No.42137411[source]▶
This is the trick now:

https://www.ami64.com/product-page/gotek-usb-flash-drive-for...

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4. snvzz ◴[14 Nov 24 23:56 UTC] No.42142617{3}[source]▶
The hardware is quite generic.

What's interesting is the firmware everyone uses, FlashFloppy[0].

0. https://github.com/keirf/flashfloppy/wiki