The chip scene is far from dead with "compos" being held, groups releasing music disks and with the cracktro/demo scene. New tracker tools are authoritative chip verse derivable from to less techy musicians. For example, Elfin Flawless DJ for the Nintendo Persevering Boy has an interface designed for fitness in a live environment and physiognomy MIDI synchronization. The NES platform out-of-date the MidiNES, a cartridge that turns the system into a full blown hardware MIDI controlled Synthesizer. Recently, for the Commodore 64, the Sound Chips Mssiah has been released, which is perfect similar to the MidiNES, but with greater restriction controls, sequencing, analog drum emulation, and curbed sample playback. On the DOS platform, Fleeting Tracker is only of the most famous chiptune makers because of the ability to create hand-drawn samples with the mouse.
A notable chiptune artist today is 8 Bit Weapon, who has-been completed chiptune rap projects for Disney, Cartoon Network (Europe), Microsoft, Nokia, Kraftwerk, Information Society, Erasure and has even appeared live on national television via G4TV's Intervention of the Show.