Homemade cart with EPROM- potentially the most available option. You can get donor carts and chips easily and cheaply. Heck, you can get ReproPaks and chips cheaply.
1,265 Feb 10, 2010 9:48 pm
Re: NTRQ - Native NES Tracker by Neil Baldwin (373 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)
1,266 Feb 10, 2010 8:21 pm
Re: NTRQ - Native NES Tracker by Neil Baldwin (373 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)
Wow, I am so excited about this. Even though I can't really track at all. Keep it up man!
1,267 Feb 10, 2010 8:20 pm
Re: The adlib music revolution. (31 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)
OxygenStar wrote:
wow to put me next to tangerine dream is radical... ha.... but arfink, get yourself some OPL3 goodness and join the revolution!!
Well, I have been lusting over some old laptop hardware... but I doubt my next purchase will be an OPL3. I am thinking more along the lines of a Gridcase 1540 laptop... so sleek and sexy in a 1985 sort of way! But you can get a dual ISA bay, believe it or not, which this thing docks to, and I could put an OPL3 in that!
1,268 Feb 10, 2010 8:17 pm
Re: New Apple II Digital Music Synth! (16 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)
Ahh, so this is Mike Mahon? I believe I have actually met him, though I'm not sure he remembers me...
As for the glitch: that's not exactly true. It's just that there is a speaker tied to a memory register, and if you cycle that register fast enough you get crunchy 1 bit sounds.
1,269 Feb 10, 2010 1:37 am
Re: New Apple II Digital Music Synth! (16 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)
Hmm, this looks alot like other A2 sound software I have seen, but with a somewhat cleaned up interface. Just out of curiosity, who did the software design for you? Good work on this, and if you ever decide to make it cheaper I'll be happy to play with it and review it on my Apple IIgs. For that price I could get me another 3.5" floppy drive. Being a college student means I spend 90% of my time broke. 
Oh, and if I was ever going to buy this, there would be a couple of things I'd like to know, such as:
1. Is it copy protected? 5.25 floppies die easily, so it better not be.
2. Is it running on DOS 3.3 or Prodos 8? If Prodos 8 then that's awesome because I can put it on my hard drive.
3. If I, say, am a fairly skilled Apple II user and wanted to hack sounds in... would information on how to do this ever be provided even if no tutorial is ever written? I honestly don't care how hard it is, knowing me I'd try it just because, but I'd need technical info probably.
4. Can I get the source code? Long shot, I know.
1,270 Feb 9, 2010 7:19 pm
Re: 48hr pixel art challenge: ilkke's turn! (469 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)
Good work ZZZB!
1,271 Feb 9, 2010 7:15 pm
Re: Commodore 64 Disk service (13 replies, posted in Trading Post)
Yes, they are rewritable. However they do degrade quite a bit over a long period of time, but it'd be worth a shot.
1,272 Feb 9, 2010 7:13 pm
Re: Modular/Analog/Digital/DIY Synthesis (36 replies, posted in Other Hardware)
I WANT TO PLAY WITH THIS. BTW, we still have to hang out some time.
1,273 Feb 9, 2010 12:42 am
Topic: Need EPROMs? (commission work) (1 replies, posted in Trading Post)
There have been alot of good programs and hardware coming out lately for various game consoles, especially NES. Using these programs on an emulator is all well and good, but real hardware is always better, right? Only one problem- you'll have to burn some EPROMs, or Flash chips, or PROMs.
I have some experience doing these kinds of projects and I have the hardware. So if you need to get some chips made up, just go ahead and ask. I can do orders on a first-come first-serve basis, but before you ask I'll need to know a few things, like exactly what kind of chip you need made up and what data is going on it.
The main kind of chips I have worked with are 27c series EPROMs, which are used alot in custom NES games. For example, the 27c256 can be simply dropped into an NROM cartridge from Nintendo in order to run programs like glitchNES, Lickshot, VegaPlay, scrollNES, galleryNES and others. Of course, I can certainly do many other types, just ask.
Pricing will vary based primarily on how much your chips will cost. I don't often have a stock of chips laying around, with the possible exception of 27C256 chips and 27C128 chips. So when you know how many you'd need, I'd quote you based on how much I'm paying per chip plus a small fee for my time plus shipping. Just as an example, in the past I charged $8 for a pair of custom 27C256 EPROM chips, not including the shipping. Probably I can charge less, it all depends on the cost of the chips themselves.
EDIT: I am not particularly interested in violating any kind of copyright laws, so please, only ask me to burn things onto chips which you have permission to burn. In the case of No-Carrier's programs, these are released GPL and are thus completely OK to make hardware out of.
1,274 Feb 8, 2010 7:39 pm
Re: Battery Life with Backlights? (31 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Yeah, your indication that you're running low on power is a sudden drop in contrast. One thing which bothers me is how people just yank the old power indication LED out, since that thing actually would give you some good indication of whether the system was going to die soon or not.
1,275 Feb 8, 2010 7:35 pm
Re: NTRQ - Native NES Tracker by Neil Baldwin (373 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)
I believe I'll be pronouncing it "enn-tee-ar-cue."
I dunno if I'd be a very good beta candidate, since I'm not much of an artist.
1,276 Feb 7, 2010 7:54 pm
Re: Fractals/Procedural Artwork (22 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)
Heh, I'm no purist... I'd probably just be hacking the image up in GIMP. That one you showed there is pretty impressive.
1,277 Feb 7, 2010 7:34 pm
Re: Fractals/Procedural Artwork (22 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)
Nope, totally on topic. Got any more info on this beside the movie? It's quite spectacular.
EDIT: duh... Pouet! With 4k in the title I should have guessed it was a demoscene prod. Were you involved? It's pretty sick!
1,278 Feb 7, 2010 7:32 pm
Re: 48hr pixel art challenge: ilkke's turn! (469 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)
This has been shaping up pretty good. Keep it up guys!
1,279 Feb 7, 2010 7:28 pm
Re: Fractals/Procedural Artwork (22 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)
I have been running all my software under Linux, using Wine where necessary. I'd be curious to know Beverage, are these pictures just from the renderer, or have you post-processed them? They look really nice.
EDIT: and... what render setting are you using? I cranked mine up pretty dang high, and it wasn't taking 4 hours... unless I zoomed way in on a small part of the frame.
I have actually been considering mixing fractal work with really low-res pixel art, using dense fractal fields in place of solid colors for pixels.
Battle Lava, I got that effect by rendering on black with lots of blue and green (I might post that one, it looks teriffic!) and then inverting it and bringing the hue down and then fiddling with saturation until I got this.
1,280 Feb 7, 2010 4:58 am
Re: Fractals/Procedural Artwork (22 replies, posted in Graphics, Artwork & Design)
Stills like this are quite cool though, even if they do take a painfully long time to render.