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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Music while in a coding session...
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 13:51:58 -0700
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On 7/17/2024 7:01 AM, Pierre wrote:
> 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.

Thanks! And thanks to C++. Here are the results of some of my opengl, 
GLSL, and C++ work along with the music is mine as well good ol MIDI, lol:

(Fractal Boom Box)

https://youtu.be/n13GHyYEfLA