News Summary

• Ingenious coders coaxed multichannel chiptunes from the humblest of sound hardware.
• Even for 1982, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum had poor sound: a piezoelectric speaker that could beep.
• But you can do a lot with a single bit if you turn it on and off really fast.
• There are many more remarkable Follin tracks, including the music for Future Games, and the title music for Chronos – which even impressed Aphex Twin.