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In comp.lang.c Chris M. Thomasson <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/16/2024 7:18 AM, Pierre wrote:
>> In comp.lang.c Chris M. Thomasson <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Does anybody listen to any particular music when there are on, say a 30
>>> hour coding spree, barely any sleep? Fwiw, I remember listening to this
>>> old video game music from Final Fantasy II back in the 90's during code
>>> adventures for sure:
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC-y7ViVDNE
>>>
>>> Just wondering... :^)
>> 
>> I started my bedroom coding journey on a ZX Spectrum+ (BASIC and machine code)
>> listening to Tangerine Dream and Jean-Michel Jarre. The music was recorded to
>> cassette from CD, as our only CD player was in the lounge Hi-Fi stack. Through
>> my Commodre Amiga, SGI IRIX and GNU/Linux coding years I would still listen to
>> TD and JMJ to get into the 'zone'. My TD and JMJ CDs are now ripped as flac
>> files on my GNU/Linux PC and played using cmus.
>> To quote Galen Erso, "It's a peaceful life."
> 
> A good friend way back then, 80's, with the first name of Chris, 
> strange, well, his Dad must of worked for Apple or something. He had a 
> lot of of Apple computers. Mac's, Apple ii's, ect... A library of games, 
> ect... Programming at his house was fun. His Dad was into classical 
> music, not really 80's soft rock. He would play it loud, not light. And 
> would sometimes watch me code. Wow. Hid Dad used to love playing this:
> 
> Fwiw, all of the visuals in here are from my C++ code:
> 
> (Moonlight Sonata)
> https://youtu.be/DSiWvF5QOiI
> 
> (Ride of the Valkyries)
> https://youtu.be/QFPSYsYUKBA
> 
> I worked hard on those. Some hours on and end until everything was right.

Awesome fractal effects.