excellent news. as great as STeem already is, it's always good to see work is being continued.
530 Nov 15, 2012 9:16 am
Re: 1-Bit Music Goes Handheld - Speccy routines on TI82 (35 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)
you don't have to mod the calc for this. all you need to do is build a link cable, which is dead simple to do.
in the worst case a rogue sound routine might hang your calc, nothing that couldn't be fixed by taking out the batteries and doing a memory reset.
531 Nov 12, 2012 12:48 pm
Re: Got C128, want to make music on the SID. Have no TV but a Mac (8 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
I have loads of TVs that I could give away for free. But you'd need to pick them up in Berlin. PM me if you're interested.
532 Nov 12, 2012 9:19 am
Re: sid-wizard 1.0 (39 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
wow, neat. this thing is really starting to surpass goattracker.
533 Nov 12, 2012 9:18 am
Re: favourite zx spectrum-only music? (6 replies, posted in General Discussion)
hahaha no i quit man, i only do ti82 nowadays 
jk
nq rules, as i've mentioned before. yerz rules, f6 rules, tdm rules, the rest ay riders rules, too.
talking about beeper, Mister Beep of course. And AER (hope MB doesn't kill me for mentioning both in one breath). Also Darkman007 did some rad stuff. And Shiru.
and no speccy music thread is complete without mentioning the name of his majesty, Dr. Timothey F.
534 Nov 10, 2012 2:00 pm
Re: 1-Bit Music Goes Handheld - Speccy routines on TI82 (35 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)
HardstyleFox wrote:
When I heard of making music on a calculator i though of this.
HAHAHA good one! And something like an on-calc tracker may even come true sooner or later.
Btw do you still have that TI85? I could try to adapt the routines for this one, too, if people are interested & willing to beta-test.
535 Nov 2, 2012 1:03 pm
Re: 1-Bit Music Goes Handheld - Speccy routines on TI82 (35 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)
Update: TI 1-Bit Pack 0.2 released
Changelog:
- Added TI83/Ion support.
- Added Octode engine (1tracker version)
- Removed all ROM calls
- Various code optimizations
- Moved all song data to external music.asm templates
536 Oct 27, 2012 10:38 pm
Re: 1-Bit Music Goes Handheld - Speccy routines on TI82 (35 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)
porting these routines to ti83 should be very simple - just change CrASH headers/includes to Ion shell, and replace the jp EXIT_2_TIOS with a normal ret. However I don't have a ti83, and sadly VTI isn't a very reliable means of testing. If someone would be willing to beta-test on hardware, I could prepare some templates.
For TI84 I'm not sure, haven't read much about that one. Doesn't it have, like, an mp3 player and stuff?
At the moment I don't have any specific plans for a native tracker - but who knows, it might happen after all.
537 Oct 26, 2012 3:41 pm
Topic: 1-Bit Music Goes Handheld - Speccy routines on TI82 (35 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)
Ever wanted to play native 1-bit music on a cheaply obtainable handheld device? Well, now you can - the Huby, Music Box, Music Studio, LSengine, and ZX10 have been ported to TI82.
UPDATE 2012/11/02 - Now also available for TI83 w/ Ion shell. See manual for details.
Here is how it works:
1) Get a TI82 graphic calculator. They are easily obtained from auction sites at around 10-30$ in the US. In Europe they are slightly more rare and expensive nowadays, though there should be lots of them gathering dust on school shelves...
2) Build a link cable from parts available for less than 5$ from any electronics store.
3) Download and install CrASH (the Crappy Assembler Shell) on your TI.
4) Make some 1-bit music with Music Box, Music Studio (Beepola), LSengine, ZX10 (1tracker), or Huby (1tracker/xm2huby).
5) Use these .asm templates together with CrASHSDK and TASM to compile the music data for TI82. For details, see included manual file.
6) Get/build an audio cable with a 2.5 mm stereo jack.
7) Play 1-bit music from your TI. Your calc may occasionally hang afterwards, removing the audio cable should fix this.
If you want to try things in an emulator first, install VTI (sadly, it's Windows only, but it's the only TI emulator that has sound output AND can run CrASH)
Here's a test recording of ZX10 playing on TI82. And here is a little music demo you can check out. The source code is a prime example of how to NOT do things, so I'll give it out on request only.
Things to come in the future (maybe)
- More engine ports
- Switch to another assembler because TASM sucks
- TI Client/Shell for Beeper songs
- [done] Support for TI82CS (ROM 19.006) and TI83
- A means of automatically translating Beepola/1tracker output
- Stereo support
- Maybe a native tracker, though I'd prefer someone who actually knows programming to do it.
Post your questions, suggestions, and bug reports in this thread, and I'll see what I can do about it.
edit: link fixed
538 Oct 18, 2012 6:09 pm
Re: Jellica - One thousand two hundred and thirty four (26 replies, posted in Releases)
awesome. love the mellow mood and strange blobldiblobs
539 Oct 7, 2012 10:31 pm
Re: UBI051 Yerzmyey — Strange Light Under My Bed (32 replies, posted in Releases)
Stevens wrote:
Easily a release of the year.
seconded. this is mind-blowing. absolutely beautiful. i'm lacking the words to describe the awesomeness of this release. congratulations on this masterpiece.
also didn't know you were a MusicMon user, yerz
540 Sep 28, 2012 11:07 am
Re: Opus codec (18 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
so i made a little chip music floppy release to test out the new codec. i'd say 20 kbps vbr is still a stretch from acceptable audio quality but still lightyears better than any other existing codec.
541 Sep 20, 2012 11:58 pm
Re: [DE] Berlin 2012-09-21 Autumn Blips II w/ Low Bit Revolte et al (2 replies, posted in Past Events)
bump... lineup +Felsenkind +oliolab +Der Warst
542 Sep 13, 2012 1:26 pm
Re: Opus codec (18 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
so, a first quick test:
Reference WAV, 48000 Hz Resolution, 440 Hz tone
OPUS, 64 kbps VBR, recorded via internal mixer (sorry, was too lazy to adjust the volume)
I'd say even at 64 kbps it looks pretty good, though it isn't perfect. But there's a ton of settings available with the encoder, I'll be checking those out later.
543 Sep 13, 2012 1:08 am
Re: Opus codec (18 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
µB wrote:
Dunno if HTML5 supports it yet. That'd be big.
Yes it does. According to my research, Opus should work in the latest versions of Firefox, Chrome, and Opera. Also VLC started supporting it in version 2.0.4.
And Rockbox is going to support it, meaning it will be available on a wide range of upcoming portable devices.
I'll upload a little HTML5 test page in the coming days.
544 Sep 12, 2012 10:34 am
Re: Opus codec (18 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
this is exiting news. and the audio quality at low bitrates is rather jaw dropping. i'll be using this for my next lo-bit release. thanks for posting µB, i probably would've missed this otherwise.