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(19 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Nothing specific happened. The Internet just evolves. New people interested in this kind of thing ended up spending more time on Facebook groups. Folks generally don't use forums any more. People got tired of answering the same old questions over and over. Lots of things have been covered to death, and anyway, this place was never as busy as somewhere like 8bc anyway for a variety of reasons and that ended up dying in some spectacular non spectacular fashion due to weird politics.

There is no good answer. There is no grand conspiracy. That's why nobody has answered you yet. It's just the way it goes.

p.s. HTML will never be allowed on forums like this for security reasons. It's a standard setup for all forum based software.

Just chiming in 100 years late to agree. I would start with the original brick. Larger, more space to do the mods... you can get some really beaten up broken ones and swap out basically all the componts if need be. The PCBs are the important part. And if you cock it up... well you can get another broken one.

Jophish wrote:

i’ve got the entire source for 8bc due to jose recruiting me (a literal child at the time) to help “test” his bleepbloop carts (as well as making me a mod of 8bc and requiring me to answer support emails) and it’s an absolute dumpster fire of php.

been wanting to do something with it for a while (ie port it to a language used since the extinction of dinosaurs) but matt of kitsch bent still owns the 8bitcollective.com domain (lol) which redirects to his website (lol) which itself is completely broken. for some reason that’s really funny to me.

the trademark on “8bitcollective.com” expired a few years ago (yes, it exists); always thought it would be a fun (and completely fucking stupid) project to get it back online.


I always remembered 8bc.org rather than 8bitcollective.com. I toyed with the idea of setting something up as well (another former mod here), but realistically if CMO isn't even active, then there wouldn't be much point.

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(76 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I am still here. I check in a lot, but many threads end up just dying or without response, which makes it tough to get motivation to start new threads. I'd love CMO to be more active, as there is a whole host of smart people here, and lots of great information that gets picked up by Google etc. Discord is fine to hang out in, but it is a different beast, and there isn't really any chipmusic ones that have much traction.

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(2 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

rebb wrote:

Completely unrelated, but did not know this was your youtube channel. Been enjoying the videos!

Hey, thanks very much!

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(2 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

A few months ago I pre-ordered a kit from gamebox.systems that lets you convert a rear portion of a DMG into one which has HDMI output. It's something I've been looking for for years, to get a video signal that I could use to play live with, or do some cool visual things - whilst also using the hardware audio.

I put it through its paces with the build, Everdrive, LSDJ, an Arduinoboy, and some other things to test it out, and put together this video, as I think it could be a really cool addition to the chip music world, even though it wasn't necessarily the intended original purpose:

Sharing here as I think it is relevant to many folks' interests!

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(7 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)

I had the same issue with MSSIAH:

https://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/1768 … t-of-tune/

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(22 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

martin_demsky wrote:

It can be done easily in lsdj, but that Microcosm thing is very interesting, i want it smile

Speaking of the Microcosm...

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(22 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

martin_demsky wrote:

It can be done easily in lsdj, but that Microcosm thing is very interesting, i want it smile

The drones? Yeah, though perhaps not if you are using the Frequency setting (as opposed to the notes). Having it all on a couple of easily accessible screens is a bonus as well if you want just drones, as it's quicker to edit the parameters that way.

The Microcosm is wild. Would recommend.

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(22 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

I came across a new drone synth for the Game Boy called 'Droneboy' (thanks to Joe Bleeps for giving me a heads up).

I put together a demo video showing how it works, and with some sounds here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MADIgapdwEE

You can download it here: https://github.com/purefunktion/Droneboy

Try out Droneboy. Brand new - https://github.com/purefunktion/Droneboy

Demo:

martin_demsky wrote:

https://www.analogue.co/store#pocket

200 US dollars, i want it so much!

Aw shit yeah, these look sweeet.

martin_demsky wrote:

Nice work smile i also updated my lsdj from ancient version, but in all my tunes was wrong kick drum with command PD1 (or near that, or sometimes was bad base tone, so i rewritten notes in kick drum one octave higher and that command PD1 worked ok) so i rewritten all tracks with good pitch down. I want to explore that speech synthesis in wave channel in near time, and also i am waiting for analogue Pocket sales start in may to try lsdj in it smile

Thanks! Yeah, I called bankruptcy with my old tracks for now. If I ever play live again I might re-write them.

What's the Pocket sales?!

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(5 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

damiendada wrote:

Hi, what did you find in your search?

There aren't a huge amount of options. For dedicated boxes, there's the Arcano:

https://chiptunesynth.com/products/arca … sizer-blue

or the Hapines from Twisted Electrons:

https://twisted-electrons.com/product/hapines-l/

Or some other cartridge for the NES itself which didn't get great reviews.

In the end I got an AY3 from Twisted Electrons, which uses a different chip from the NES, but had more control over the parameters than the other options.

If I was going to buy a NES device I'd probably go with the Hapines.

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(5 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

martin_demsky wrote:

If you are talking about NES and not about SNES, it is not far far away from normal Game boy DMG-01 with lsdj or nanoloop. So if you want something handy you can try it.

Yeah, I've been using LSDJ for over ten years smile I wanted to try the NES specifically.