Hey all, I have a project I would finally like to get some programmer help with.
There's this site called battle of the bits, a place in the chiptune scene that is well known for battles, where it would be a music competition and people would battle to see who could make the best chiptune or chipmusic in the formats provided by battle rules.
It's a place that has tuns of music in the original old chiptune and tracker formats, and sadly one that has no known off site backup unlike modland.
I started archiving this site years ago by hand and my opendirectory looks to be the only directory for the battle of the bits work , but I can't keep doing this any longer.
I also tried to get people interested into protecting the history and the culture of there community, but sadly that worked to little avail.
Here's the forum post where I started to talk with them. Mind you I'm not a writer, so I had to stay up over night to spend a half a day just to write any of this.
https://battleofthebits.com/academy/GroupThread/35401/torrents+or+archives+for+battle+of+the+bits%3F/ I was also trying to do this on Twitter as well, but that also didn't work so well.
After looking at the API for BotB I was Wondering is someone or a group of people could help me to collect a point of BotB's history together? Here's the API. What we need is a way to get all entries from all battles, and that should be enough for round 1 of preserving BotB.
https://battleofthebits.com/lyceum/View/BotB+API+v1/ I love chiptune and chipmusic, but I can't do this alone no more. I am very tired of seeing awesome sites for chiptune with very little people that have a good enough backup of what the site was like.
#chiptune #Chiptune #Chipmusic #Battleofthebits #Preservation #Archiving #Archivist #Archivism_And_Preservation #Tech #API
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