Top of the Pops 2024

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Submitted by Stefan Drissen on Tue, 12/31/2024 - 12:51

It is the end of the year, so it is time once again for the top 10 of my oscilloscope videos for 2024.

Top of the Pops 2024
2024 2023 2022 2021 views title artist tracker year
1 8 7 3 1604 Axel F Ziutek E-Tracker 1992
2 2 1 1 944 Monty on the Run František Fuka SAmadeus 1990
3 - - - 836 Ghouls 'n' Ghosts Tim Follin AY 1989
4 - - - 689 Sea of Love Ziutek E-Tracker 2013
5 - - 9 664 Ocean Loader v1 Pyramex E-Tracker 2014
6 - - - 601 Peace Droid Interphace/Andromeda mod 2024
7 - - - 544 Peter Moore's Collected Works Peter Moore E-Tracker 1994/5
8 9 - - 530 Acidjazzed Evening Tempest mod 2000
9 - - - 528 MF Music Realtime MmcM AY 2017
10 - - - 474 Enola Gay Ziutek E-Tracker 1990

Congratulations to Ziutek for claiming the top spot along with quite a few other spots!

This year I branched out to oscilloscope some extraordinary ZX Spectrum AY tunes, allowing Ghouls 'n' Ghosts to mysteriously appear in the third spot (protip: check out Wicked Polygons and Atarin - they are amazing!).

The wonderful SAMazing 2024 in Leicester this May prompted me to oscilloscope some lesser known works, allowing Pete to fly an entire collection in at 7th place.

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Tobermory Fri, 01/24/2025 - 09:58

Axel F and Enola G still in the charts!  For my money that ping-pong bit in Acidjazzed Evening is so good, swapping between pulse wave and triangle wave.

It does sound like it's straight default soundwaves played back as samples though (except for the drums), making me wonder if there are any 5-track tunes floating about with just chiptune and sampled drums these days?  Wasn't there an early bit of freeware that used this technique?