Re: Music while in a coding session...

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:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC-y7ViVDNE
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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
:^)