You can add the Supergameboy CPU in a good old DMG ! I think it is the best solution for what you need ! You can do it because this guy did it and some other modders did it too !!!
Nice, but all it does is boot faster because it doesn't have the boot logo animation. It does nothing to improve playback of CPU heavy songs.
nitro since you're in this thread, are you still planning to add song saving to the current project in littleFM? as well as some of the other features?
I might do this at some point, but I don't consider very important. Let me explain. One of the main goals of littleFM is increased data security. That's why it has flash saving. Apart from expanding the memory, it also serves as non-volatile backup if the cart battery should fail. That's why the load function has strict error checking, and will abort loading the file if it finds any errors. Errors that would go undetected with the regular file manager. (Side note: LSDj did add some sort of error detection on song load just two weeks ago, but I haven't had time to look at exactly what it does.) I don't see any similar benefit from adding song saving. It would mostly only make song saving faster. (3 seconds to save a typical song probably isn't unrealistic as a goal.) That is not to say I will never implement it, just that it doesn't obviously have as much benefit as the current existing functionality.
BGB auto saves every 256 seconds, so every 4 minutes, 16 seconds according to the author of the program. I don't think there's a way to automatically save more often than that. The easiest way to force the save data to be written to disk is probably to reset the CPU, which you can do with numpad * or fn+P on many laptops.
Could you please clarify the following? It sounds like a potential bug, if it's actually true.
Blitzer wrote:
but may actually save nothing and loading that file will just use your last .SAV that you actually did through the game (even though the 'file time' updates in your OS), can anyone confirm/deny this as well?
Well, I disagree. In my opinion such titles are earned, based on the person's skill. Some may be natural talents at doing something, and others may have practiced for decades. But to claim that someone who sings for the first time holds the same right to the title as someone who has proven skill, not only possibly, but necessarily, is to me absurd.
3.5mm plug -> link cable plug. Send a sync pulse from Renoise or any DAW, it shouldn't be too difficult (or expensive) to get it going. Also the official nanoloop USB MIDI adaptor thing is pretty cheap..
Not sure the pulse would be strong enough to trigger the link port. Also, the nanoloop adpter is often (and atm) out of stock.
Well, if you cant say from the bottom of your heart that its absolutely worth $75, then if you had paid $102 for it you might think it was a bit steep.
I'm not even saying that as an indicator of the quality of the instrument! It's a highly personal preference that I can make the sounds I want in other ways, be it by composing in LSDj, writing my own Gameboy code, building something in Reaktor or something else. Each to their own needs.
@sweden: Good to get a heads up that its actually useful and worth the price...might get it in a couple of months. Maybe I'll try super PSG first tho...cos its sega master system...sega was always better.
It depends on what you're looking for, again. I didn't pay for my license, so I can't say from the bottom of my heart that it's absolutely worth $75. (And no, I didn't pirate it. I got my license for free since I was a beta tester. ) It does what it says on the box, which may or may not be what you want.
JaffaCakeMexica wrote:
But I would like to add that regarding the pricing of VSTi, sometimes it not what a VSTi is worth that matters but rather how the developer can move the most units (make the most sales) in the fastest possible time (during the hype phase) in order to maximise profit
That's an interesting economic point. It might be possible that they would get more than double the number of users if they halved the price (say) but it may have unintended consequences. The lower you set the price, the more likely you are to attract bottom-feeders who are not really interested in the software. And all of a sudden you have a bunch of silly support questions. I only wanted to make this one SID sound. How do I make this sound? This program is too complex. Can't you make it simpler? Why is the sound so clicky? On second thought, I want something that sounds GOOD not something that sounds realistic. Can I have my money back, please? And so on. A high price can actually be a benefit because it makes the demand for the program self-limiting to those who are genuinely interested in what it has to offer. The high volume proposition works very well for someone making plastic doodads to be sold in supermarkets, but not for every product.
You're missing the point of it. What you're paying for is all the research it takes to rather precisely replicate the sound of various consoles. It's for the purists. If this is not important for you, you could use the squarewave oscillator of any free VST for instant chiptune.
It looks awesome for an entirely gameboy based setup, but it will be frame rate based speed instead of BPM so difficult to use in terms of sampling patterns out into a DAW
I'm hosting various websites, including my blog and my Gameboy development site on a LAMP stack. It's atm very low usage. I'm nowhere near 100% usage of bandwidth or CPU. I'm on the $10/month package. (30 GB storage, 1 GB RAM). I chose this over the lowest tier because I ideally needed more than 20 GB disk space and 512 MB RAM seemed a bit low. (I didn't want RAM swapping to become a bottleneck under increased load.) I'm using an Ubuntu server. They do also offer one-click apps as they call it, which may be useful but I haven't tried that. So far I have no complaints about the service.
I migrated away from a managed web host about 6 months ago. I first tried Linode. On paper, they have a slightly better service than DO in terms of manageability. However, a friend recommended me to choose Linode instead due to the rumors that someone had gained access to a VM and was able to steal a large amount of bitcoin, either by a vulnerability in the system or with the help of an employee. In either case, that was enough for me to avoid Linode altogether on principle, even if the risk of me in particular getting affected was low. It's also for the same reason I would never touch Godaddy, as they have a reputation of having frequent vulnerabilities in their hosting environment.
The truth about .com domains is that you won't get them for under $10/year long term. Every claim of $0.99 domains is one time coupons, typically when buying other services. With that in mind, pay the $11-$12 and look for a quality provider instead of hunting for the cheapest. Dynadot and Google Domains as mentioned above are both respectable choices.
As for hosting, I too use Digital Ocean. But keep in mind that what they offer is a VPS service, so you have to set up and manage the server yourself. This is fine for me, but might not be for everyone.
) It does what it says on the box, which may or may not be what you want.