657

(15 replies, posted in General Discussion)

There's an SN7647 in the Swedish ABC80 home computer, too (from 1978). Apparently, some parts of the chip used analog control signals, so in most cheap designs it ought to have been inflexible to control (as is the case with the ABC80, apparently: http://board.kohina.net/viewtopic.php?t=393).

658

(13 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I'm going to sign up so I can delete it

659

(52 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Oh, the number of times I've left kebab places without them charging me, only to walk back in and pay. Mostly because I'm paranoid about them realizing it and remembering it the next time I go there, but still... B-)

I and a friend also turned in two mopeds we found in the woods to the police. A month later, we could pick them up since nobody had claimed them, and after a 10 second test drive in his back yard we sold them and I bought a computer.

Does anyone have any good stories of being too honest? I mean, to the point of causing trouble.

660

(17 replies, posted in General Discussion)

You should try processing. When it comes to programming games, I think that it's a lot easier to get into than flash, and whatever you create can be embedded on a web page.

nitro2k01 wrote:

The irony...

To be fair, the composers are rarely involved with the copyright intrusion themselves, and sometimes they aren't even affiliated with the cracking crews whose intros or keygens they appear in.

And selling warez... That's just lame! smile

Yes, please keep using tags for everything! Much easier to get into something specific that way.

Also start showing "similar songs" based on tag relevance. Maybe there are too few songs for that to be effective so far, but it's future proof!

663

(22 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I use it occasionally. Mostly for playing games, but I've made some songs with it, too.

664

(29 replies, posted in General Discussion)

godinpants wrote:

Hang on now.

Sample collection/preparation/creation is one of the most fun parts of tracking.

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree, then. At least when I start composing I usually already have an idea of what I want to do, and I want to put it down immediately. Then interesting samples can be loaded and tweaked. Of course, finding samples can be an equally interesting thing to do, but in my case it mostly isn't (my last released song being a notable exception), and having a collection of good samples doesn't hurt anyway.

As for instrument patches in for example TFM, I keep a collection but I rarely use them as they are. There's always a lot of tweaking... and then I saved the tweaked instrument too!

665

(29 replies, posted in General Discussion)

When you're a bit further down the road...

o Look at songs in trackers (or the excellent pattern visualization in XMPlay)
o Join themed competitions and compilations
o Join time constrained competitions
o For every released song, prepare to have 10 unreleased/half finished ones
o Whenever you feel like playing video games start a tracker instead
o Collect your instruments and samples so that you can start tracking with minimal boring work

EDIT:
o Get paid

666

(174 replies, posted in Past Events)

I hope all's well -- and good luck on your further gigs!

Haha, those ominous tetris blocks made me laugh. I wonder how they are going to keep this fresh for 90 minutes, though.

668

(49 replies, posted in Sega)

Sounds good, looks nice!

arfink wrote:

Pure awesomeness, from 1982 India.

Sweet! But definitely not from 1982, and not very chippy either. Well maybe it is, but someone must have gone back with a time machine smile

670

(18 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)

Nice sound! And yeah, I've enjoyed your demos, 4mat.

This was my first program for the C64: http://joysynth.mixtape.be/
Then I made this lo-fi VJ thing: http://vicficken.mixtape.be/
... and the corresponding demo: http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=81864
an my latest public thing was this greetings demo: http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=83332

671

(9 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Yes, it is included in the rar file (musica.dsk)

@ant1
That certainly would help consumability, but I like the idea of being able to download a module/binary/log of the music, too. I haven't really checked out how it works now, but an option to include both in a music entry would be cool.