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ZX Spectrum revisited: The art of chiptunes on a mono-bit speaker

Coders exploited the ZX Spectrum's rudimentary speaker to create multichannel music.

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These ingenious techniques gave rise to a cult musical genre in the 1980s.

The article celebrates the ingenuity of early sound programming pioneers.

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