> I wonder how Bintracker gets around the requirement of having to write native code that actually plays the music on all the various platforms? But I guess tha

> I wonder how Bintracker gets around the requirement of having to write native code that actually plays the music on all the various platforms? But I guess that a stub that just "pipes" the data through to the emulated sound hardware is relatively easy to write. It looks that way. There's binary files for the MAME Bridge, which probably orchestrate the raw music data. If I remember correctly, that's rather common on the original platforms, too. On the C64, there were a few "music routines" that marshaled patterns of notes to the SID chip. One famous example being that of composer Rob Hubbard[1], whose "One Man and his Droid" still lives rent-free in my head. Chicken Scheme, Tk and MAME seem like a very cool tech stack for this. [1]: https://www.1xn.org/text/C64/rob_hubbards_music.txt https://www.1xn.org/text/C64/rob_hubbards_music.txt