1,185 Reply by arfink

(27 replies, posted in Releases)

Your more than welcome uB, my pleasure.

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1,186 Reply by arfink

(19 replies, posted in Circuit Bending)

I should work... I think that the ST only goes up to 12 bit, so it's probably fine.

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1,187 Reply by arfink

(27 replies, posted in Releases)

Sweet! After you fixed the archive I can listen now. I really like Vaz Spz, it's pretty good. Whitetail seemed to have some somewhat annoying sustained dissonances that just really got on my nerves. Maybe my speakers exaggerated them...

Overall, good effort. Now, if you did this sort of style again, I'd say lay off on the compression and heavy beats. Keep it to the clicks/shuffle and it'll be even cooler. The driving beat keeps the cool-feel away.

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1,188 Reply by arfink

(19 replies, posted in Circuit Bending)

OK, quick update- I got my sync converter parts pretty much lined up so I can order, and I heard back from Roy and he says it's only 16 bit color depth conversion. Still, that's more than enough for me, and other than Amiga 1200 and some others which run at 24 or 32 bit color, it's plenty enough color. I'll post some pics once I got my sync converter running through the scandoubler.

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1,189 Reply by arfink

(8 replies, posted in Trading Post)

Who bought it, if you don't mind me asking?

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1,190 Reply by arfink

(60 replies, posted in General Discussion)

BetaSynapse wrote:

Yea, so I live in small town in southern USA - New Bern, North Carolina to be exact. We are the child city of Bern in Switzerland and are pretty darn historic and all that jazz, but we've only really kept one thing over the past 300 years. Screw cows, we have freaking Bears.

EDIT: Apparently leeching these isn't working for some of them...

http://www.newberncourtreporters.com/im … ar%202.jpg
http://image22.webshots.com/23/9/5/10/2 … pzd_ph.jpg
http://www.newberntours.com/images/sidebarsSM_bear.jpg
http://www.atlasgeo.net/fotw/images/u/us-nc-nb.gif
http://www.beartownbears.org/bears.3.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adecorated … 706458870/

And oh yea, we made Pepsi.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ushb2/2348389473/

As to the actual music scene here, its pretty much Rock or Metal. Or Top 40 remixes. A small hick town means hardly any nerds, and then even fewer nerds interested in techno/trance/chipmusic. Ima try to change that in a couple months though.

Wow, those bears look AWESOME!

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1,191 Reply by arfink

(2 replies, posted in Circuit Bending)

Good work. Always a pleasure to see someone figure these things out and share with the world.

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1,192 Reply by arfink

(469 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)

From looking through the first couple pages, the next person who expressed interest who hasn't done one yet is... An-cat-max. Isn't it you lucky day!

Edit: Uhh... it just occurred to me that there are alot of standing challenges out here... so, pick one, or just pixel-art something so we can get this rolling again. smile

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1,193 Reply by arfink

(8 replies, posted in Trading Post)

Looks awesome. I suspect it's a decent price, but my discretionary income tends to come in less-than-twenty-dollars size these days. smile

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1,194 Reply by arfink

(469 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)

That's very sad flopps. Please accept my humble condolences. Well... I guess I'll go back to the front page and see who else I can pick.\

EDIT: In light of Crystal Lab's comment, I think that'd be good, if Droffset and Akira are OK with it.

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1,195 Reply by arfink

(19 replies, posted in Circuit Bending)

Well, I got my bill of materials and schematic files all made up for my sync splitter. I found a public domain circuit from Lupine Systems which was done up in Protel EasyTracks, which was a mega pain to try to work with in Linux. I would up putting it through the old EZ package with DosBox and printing to a virtual printer to get post-script files which I could actually look at. The sync splitter is super easy, and not counting whatever protoboard you mount it on, it's got a grand total of 8 components:

2x 7400 chips
2x 1uF capacitors
2x 1k resistors
2x 1N4148 diodes (or whatever the heck kind of diode you want, really...)

After I convert the .PS files and clean them up, I'll post the pictures here so you can make a universal sync converter. It takes composite negative sync at 15kHz and can convert it to composite positive sync, negative horizontal and vertical sync, positive horizontal and vertical sync, and buffered negative composite sync.

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1,196 Reply by arfink

(60 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Well, St. Paul MN is OK, I guess. People try to be friendly, but usually wind up seeming kinda passive-aggressive. Music scene is alright, with the chip scene being rather small but plenty of musical types around in general. MN has the best public welfare around (at least until Governor Pawlenty finishes putting the ax into it...) but it does get quite cold in the winter.

I like that it doesn't get very hot around here, even in the summer. I like the weather. I hate the pot holes in the spring.

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1,197 Reply by arfink

(35 replies, posted in Past Events)

low-gain wrote:

Only we're open to other genre's of electronic as well. but thats only cuz i can't fill the bill w/ 8-bit all the time. just not enough of us.

And maybe because Low-Gain is branching out? smile
BTW, I'm excited to come, looks like I can make it.

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1,198 Reply by arfink

(469 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)

Agreed. Akira and I had a PM chat, hopefully this'll simmer down. I thank droffset for his contribution, he made a genuine effort even if he didn't know people were going to be upset by his efforts. I thank Akira for his pixel-perfect integrity. However, as for the insults, I don't think it matters now (for the purposes of this thread) how it got started, but it can't be allowed to mess up the creativity. So, if Flopps hasn't seen his challenge and posted here by tonight to accept it, I'll pick someone else myself.

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1,199 Reply by arfink

(19 replies, posted in Circuit Bending)

Well, he insisted it's %100 A1200 compatible, which I can only guess means at least 24 bit color... I'll know for sure a bit later though. Meanwhile, this thing's quite exciting, especially considering he sent me my (unfinished) unit for nothing. He's a very generous and helpful person. His name is Roy. I'll post his email contact after I have reviewed it so you all can contact him if you want to order one.

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1,200 Reply by arfink

(469 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)

Personally, I don't mind. "Back in the day" it was quite common for pixel artists to be working from real drawings etc.

Lastly, please take the flaming to a PM setting and I won't have to call in a moderator.

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