Music The code inside. Razor 1911, Farbrausch ...

Why does crack always play some kind of music?
A: The music is vile, and with this the cracks inform that the action is illegal.
B: Each crack is a creation, it must be beautiful ...
(from the online forum)
Yes, there was everything: rare beautiful compositions, trojans, languid sighs of a young lady when generating a key for mIRC (I still have this crack). Winamp was silent, but the speakers worked, as often happens at night. A lot of things can be sewn into a tiny program.
If you want to be heard, there is another way (no, not newfangled podcasts). This is the creation of a special program - “chip disk” (from English chipdisk ) - a selection of tracker music. We will have the Russian equivalent“Music box” - this word reflects the essence of such programs. Everything is in itself: sound, program code that is responsible for its reproduction, and, as a distinctive feature, is a passion for extremely small file sizes . What is not a music box?

Modern lefties: Razor 1911, Farbrausch etc.

Who does such things? A fairly large number of different hacker (in a good sense of the word) groups. The first acquaintance is worth starting with Razor 1911 and Farbrausch . There are many others, but today we are talking about these bright representatives of the demoscene .

Music boxes on a shelf

Razor 1911

The history of this group begins in the homeland of Austin Sevag - in Norway.
The founders of the Razor 1911 group were:

• Doctor No;
• Insane TTM;
• Sector9.

Initially, the group was called Razor 2992 and was engaged in hacking software running on the Commodore 64 platform . Soon they changed 2992 to 1911: the number 1911 in the hexadecimal notation is 0x777.

Whispers. Perhaps the most striking work of Razor 1911 is the wonderful music box “ Whispers ”. Seasons are almost a classic.


It was first opened in November 2002.
How is it remarkable? It's hard to say without missing anything. First of all, these are the compositions themselves, to match the seasons: dull autumn, majestic winter, bright spring and hectic summer. You forget that this is “ tracker ” music .
Visual design is inseparable from melodies. Flying butterflies, leaves ... Perfectly seasoned window style at other times of the year.

Read the words on the splash screen. I think it will become clear then that this is not just a beautiful craft, but something more. Yes, some write about their feelings on the walls or on bridges ... Well, clicking on the right place ( according to the autumn man ), you see what was not intended for you ...


Here is such a sad postcard.
But Sleepless , promised in the final credits, we will not wait .
Chipdisk 4 (2004) Razor 1911. Why exactly the fourth? But because I like to look at a cute white animal. The music here is completely different from Whispers. Welcome to the world of old consoles and eight-bit sound .

Razor 1911 still has a lot of good work, but it is these two that I like the most. All works of this group can be viewed on http://pouet.net/ or their website: http://razor1911.com/ .

Farbrausch

Well, now let's go to Germany. There they make music boxes that are completely different in content and technology, but congenial in spirit.
Translated from German, the name of the group Farbrausch means "color poisoning . " They gained fame after the release of the 64-kilobyte intro, which took first place at The Party 2000 . It was fr-08 .the .product , and it really made the audience remember that they still know how to be surprised .

This music box was revolutionary: were applied procedural texturing technique (Engl. Procedural textures ), modeling and animation. Thanks to a number of tricks, they managed to createan eleven-minute masterpiece , which under different conditions would require about two gigabytes of memory to store the data used.
Brullwurfel. This music box is similar in style to the 1911 Razor chip discs . In Brullwurfel recorded musical themes of the other products Farbrausch. Yes, you can find records of kb (one of the members of the Farbrausch team) in mp3, but it so happened that this music is inseparable from the player. This work is in itself. You can put it on a floppy disk and bring it to a friend .


A characteristic feature of Farbrausch is its extreme optimization of program code (up to symbolic 64 Kb). Create an empty Word documentand see how much it takes (about 100 Kb, right?). If you save tracks from Brullwurfel to WAV, then the total size of the sound will be about 560 MB.
Fr-030. The last casket on our shelf is fr-030 . I intentionally do not show the image. Yes, for the first time, you won’t think that these are the same 64 kilobytes of code ...
They also sing in this box . The voice, like the image, is synthesized. We look and repeat like a mantra: procedural texturing .

Many other exciting Farbrausch works can be downloaded from their site . The most shocking in the technical sense of the work can be downloaded from the site http://www.theprodukkt.com/. Attention! To view works with a number greater than 030 you need a very, very powerful machine ( shaders 3 versions , etc.).

Conclusion

That’s probably all. The shelf is occupied by music boxes. Those who remember the eight-bit sound of old consoles and computers can remember how it was.
If there is something else like that, then I will always be glad to see a link to a work that can also captivate and charm.
Probably everyone who programs at least once wrote a similar music box in his life. It does not matter for anyone, in honor of which day or holiday. The only important thing is that on the right day, the soulless machine ran the program code and pleasantly surprised the dear person . And this is the most important thing.