furnace VS bintracker

https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace/discussions/1605

I already have the chips. 10x AY from AliExpress for £7 and they turned out to be the real deal.

If you haven't heard of it, there's another cool tracker making great strides right now, Furnace:

https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace

Allows you to compose tunes on several chips / platforms in the one song.

Download the software from their releases page (in the "assets" down under the changelog).

Open source software can sometimes contain malware. That said, in this case I think it's unlikely. These malware scanners are based on heuristics and will often warn you about software that hasn't been downloaded by many people yet. Just make sure you're getting it from the real source: https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace/releases

Maybe you also just want “generic old console sound” but I’m going to try to be more on target here. This is a fairly new, standalone software environment with support for emulating many different classic sound chips. I’m not sure exactly how it works in SNES mode and it may not be that user friendly if you’re used to a DAW but it at least claims to have an SNES mode and it’s free.

My favorite tracker in my opinion is Furnace. It supports many systems, from the PC speaker to to the most recent FM soundcards. It also has a customizable interface and is fully DefleMask compatible. It's completely free too! Link to Furnace Tracker

If you look at the activity on GitHub (https://github.com/bintracker/bintracker/graphs/contributors), they have been working on the project since mid 2018, with almost continuous commits until mid 2021, and then some activity at the start of 2022, and considerably more at the start of 2023. So there seems to have been some loss of momentum, but I wouldn't give up hope yet. It's just unfortunate that there is only one single contributor - but I guess finding fellow LISP Jedi knights (referring to the XKCD comic someone else linked) to work on this project is not that easy...

Let's extend the function that returns our labeled spin box to bind a validation function to the FocusOut event on the spin box. The spin box does have a validatecommand option, but I wasn't able to get it working. I looked through the examples that have come with the various variations of PS/Tk and couldn't find a single example of a spin box with a validatecommand. I even looked at the source code for Bintracker, a chiptune audio workstation written in Chicken Scheme with a PS/Tk GUI and developed by the current maintainer of the PS/Tk egg. Even it binds a validate-new-value function to the Return and FocusOut events of the spin box rather than using validatecommand.