Amiga and Atari ST weren't 8-bit and overlapped the PC era. These were the platforms where the term chiptune emerged and thrived as part of the demo/cracking sc

Amiga and Atari ST weren't 8-bit and overlapped the PC era. These were the platforms where the term chiptune emerged and thrived as part of the demo/cracking scene. The original SoundBlaster, SB Pro & SB 16 could and did output PCM sound, and there were mod players & trackers written for them that enabled the creation of chiptune style music-- generally music with very small PCM samples to sound like the C-64 or Atari ST. These uses on PC had nothing to do with MIDI. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_Tracker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_Tracker