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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Music while in a coding session...
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 19:17:24 -0700
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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. 

I stared with BASIC as well, on my Atari. Then I got my hands on an 
Apple IIGS, and it had that light weight assembler built in. I started 
learning bits and pieces of assembly language, and where to poke and 
peek wrt BASIC. fun times! There is a fun emulator here wrt AppleSoft Basic:

https://www.calormen.com/jsbasic


> 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."

Nice! This sounds great, Tangerine Dream - Best of:

https://youtu.be/oxYjMVLrHRM

:^)