I've been reading about the audio hardware in retro systems recently and I found an interesting opinion in one blog post I found. According to the poster while the term chiptune first appeared on the Amiga it isn't actually capable of them because it uses sample based hardware.
I didn't agree with this for various reasons but I thought I'd dig out the hardware reference manual and see what it said. I was quite surprised:
Which blog did you see this on? If it's the blog I am thinking of, disregard 99% of it as crap, lol.
The term chiptune existed before Amiga, that is for sure.
and i'd be interested to see how nice the FM tunes are that come out of paula.
