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1. sourcepluck ◴[] No.42136039[source]
I have been going through a heavy jungle phase recently thanks to these mixes I found when investigating what's possible on the Commodore A600 (I recently came into possession of one):

  https://inv.nadeko.net/playlist?list=PLF8fxbriplbmwB7zypOxa_oV4fkzTQOEh
It's a channel called "off1k", and a playlist called "Jungle / Drum & Bass", and all the tunes come from people making music on Amigas in the early 90s on software called "protracker".

A600s, A1200s, maybe others, maybe other versions or variants of protracker, I'm not sure. Anyway, if someone can get through 30s of mix 1 without losing their sh*t, I want to hear about it, I'll keel over.

And, to top it all off, about a week in to these mixes on loop, I ask myself: what is that software? Is that still going? And I discover some fellow called "Olav Sørensen" recently wrote an identical-looking protracker clone:

  https://16-bits.org/pt2.php
  EDIT: GH link https://github.com/8bitbubsy/pt2-clone
Which I can confirm runs very smoothly on Arch (btw). It says it's available for Mac and Windows on the site. In the words of the sample from the first track on mix 1: "annihilating the rhythm". Get jungling people!