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(14 replies, posted in Atari)

@Rat: Make sure you have dmd installed.
Then you can simply build it with make command.

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(14 replies, posted in Atari)

Why Windows only? It runs perfectly fine on *nix as well.

Slick as funk. Thanks guys for yet another excellent FM release.

Job well done!
On the risk of sounding stupid, what's that song? Somehow I can never find any good TED musix but this one is lovely...

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(5 replies, posted in Releases)

Here's a little demonstration of my latest toy, the Sharp PC-1403 Pocket Computer.

1-bit music and speech are output through the Sharp's serial interface. The machine's SC61860 CPU is rather slow, so the result barely qualifies as music. Nevertheless, I had a lot of fun making this.

pouet entry

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(25 replies, posted in Releases)

Absolutely loving this! I'm so floating through space right now...

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(82 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

NimbleF0x wrote:

@irrlichtproject, if you have synaptic package manager, lmms installs fully through it.
lmms has ALWAYS been native to lmms, you just have to compile it.

lmms has ALWAYS used wine, you just need to check your facts:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/lmms

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(82 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

The number 1 reason for me not to use lmms is that it requires wine to be installed, and I like to keep my system free from that stuff. Also, stability has been a major issue in the past, don't know how much that has improved with 1.0.

If you're looking for a decent DAW on Linux, try Buzztraxs (known as buzztard in debian repos).

Anybody need a professional audio analysis tool? Check out Sonic Visualiser.

Also +1 for Hydrogen.

As for the choice of distro, I prefer a fast system without unnecessary bling, so I have been using Debian + lxde for the past years. However I'm in the process of switching to the xfce desktop as the lxde team is slow with their development and usually take much too long to fix bugs.

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(6 replies, posted in Releases)

Well done. Chipprog at it's finest!

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(10 replies, posted in Atari)

Btw keep an eye on http://cortexamigafloppydrive.wordpress.com/, the guy is planning to do add firmware for Atari eventually.

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(1 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)

The official Beepola site was actually offline for quite a while, but fortunately it's up and running again.
In case it goes offline again, I'm maintaining a mirror of the download here.

Also, if you want to dig into 1-bit music, be sure to check out the 1-bit forum.

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(10 replies, posted in Atari)

Ah, I didn't know that. Never bothered to back up any ST floppies tbh. I only do it the other way around, and hope the disks don't die on me during a show wink Anyway, thanks for the info, yogi.
If you want to dig deeper into things I'd certainly recommend an SD card based solution as well, but just for having a quick play with the machine it seems a bit too pricey.

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(10 replies, posted in Atari)

I don't know about Mac and USB floppies, but generally speaking you should be fine with just about any of them, especially when using virtual box w/ windows. For the Mac side, obviously, for ST the USB drive is going to be useless of course.

Just remember the magic command to properly format floppies:

format a: /t:80 /n:90

As for software, Musicmon is very easy to get started with. MaxYMiser is rather complex, but also more powerful.

To run Cubase, you will need a little hardware extension called the Cubase Dongle.

Hiya folx, tomorrow we celebrate 1 year of 8BitBar @ Panke with live music from 9-Heart, STereochan, The Mad Bitter, and Midi Man.
cu there xD

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(8 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)

Great presentation, thanks for sharing iLKke.
Yerz' presentation rulez, too wink

I thought 8bc had over 100k members at some point. But according to the last archive.org snapshot before the takedown, the actual member count was 33931.

And as far as I remember, Micromusic was founded in 97, but the site went online in April '99.