Funny, I plugged my ST back in today and then there's an ST article linked here. I never had one back in the day (in fact I wasn't even alive yet), but became

Funny, I plugged my ST back in today and then there's an ST article linked here. I never had one back in the day (in fact I wasn't even alive yet), but became aware of it when my interest in the demo scene and chip music started in my teens. The ST's sound chip, the YM2149 - an antiquated PSG based design, was of course made fun of back in the day by Amiga and even C64 owners. But ironically something about the sound it makes spoke to me and I had to get one. The history of the ST demoscene is quite interesting to explore chronologically, seeing the hardware get pushed past it's boundaries time and time again as the years went on, and the rivalry with the Amiga scene is fun. Recently I've been doing some retro coding on it for fun, setting up okami shell, MicroEMACS, and a sort of make wrapper [1] for the Pure C compiler, using some available C libraries to make a little curses-like SNDH player for myself. Of course using a cross-compiler on a PC would be simpler but where's the fun in that? [1] https://github.com/th-otto/pcmake https://github.com/th-otto/pcmake