Question: How does the bounce-back for select/start work? I suppose you need to have rubber pads under sel/start to make the button go back after you press it? Do sel/start feel comfortable to push?
1,682 Jun 23, 2011 11:21 pm
Re: Andy Baio of Kind of Bloop faces legal action for his cover art (57 replies, posted in General Discussion)
an0va wrote:
Posted by a grumpy facebook friend of mine:
So the guy is mad he got sued for copyright infringment for the creation of an unlicensed derivative work of the photo? Fair use is an "affirmative defense" which, saving you the legal mumbo-jumbo, means you buy-your-ticket-you-take-your-ride. Even if your fair use defense is a "winner," you have to spend lots of time and money litigating it. The guy clearly knew he could get a license (as he did to cover the songs), and shouldn't cry foul when he takes his calculated risk with the cover and loses...
thoughts?
Andy addresses this very point in the blog post:
Andy Baio wrote:
And it's worth noting that trying to license the image would have been moot. When asked how much he would've charged for a license, Maisel told his lawyer that he would never have granted a license for the pixel art. "He is a purist when it comes to his photography," his lawyer wrote. "With this in mind, I am certain you can understand that he felt violated to find his image of Miles Davis, one of his most well-known and highly-regarded images, had been pixellated, without his permission, and used in a number of forms including on several websites accessible around the world."
Your friend is right as far as facts go. Fair use defense can cost you a lot of time and money. Counter-questions: Don't you (or your friend) see a problem with legislation that can be used for basically extortion in the way that copyright laws can? Is fair use of any real significance, if you need deep pockets and expensive lawyers in order to use it as a defense? Do you not see the flaw in the legal system?
1,683 Jun 23, 2011 9:22 am
Re: noisechannel.org - New Chiptune Community (98 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Heh, it sounds like a description written for reddit, not cm.org. 
1,684 Jun 20, 2011 7:48 pm
Re: Malobit, who owns this place?? (26 replies, posted in General Discussion)
WHOIS returns an e-mail address at least.
1,685 Jun 20, 2011 3:29 pm
Re: duck off (4 replies, posted in Bugs and Requests)
Edited ant1's post IN CASE THAT WASN'T OBVIOUS
1,686 Jun 20, 2011 12:12 am
Re: Game Boy PCB Files (6 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
I've uploaded the file here. Feel free to use this is the official link if you want to. It's not going away anytime soon.
http://gbdev.gg8.se/files/schematics/DMG-Rolf/
I also changed the filename to include the date of the files. Might prove handy later if there ends up being later versions. And since you finally released this to the public, I also uploaded my own version with hand-routed traces for the RAM chips. Didn't want to make it public since I wasn't sure if you wanted this project to be public yet.
1,687 Jun 19, 2011 11:14 pm
Re: Change gba clock speed with BIOS settings? (4 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Oh... MrPink is talking about his PC. 
1,688 Jun 19, 2011 9:58 pm
Re: Change gba clock speed with BIOS settings? (4 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Do you have a source for the statement?
As far as I'm aware, you cannot change the clock frequency in software, but you can change the so called waitstates for ROM accesses. This basically means that the GBA waits fewer clock cycles for the memory chip to output the requested data. This makes the program run slightly faster but if the memory chip can't cope with it, you'll get invalid data and the thing will crash.
1,689 Jun 18, 2011 5:59 pm
Re: 8bit Peoples website down? (2 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Gonna go ahead and close this one too as the site works again. Some people do know how to fix their bugs.
1,691 Jun 15, 2011 1:29 pm
Re: Spam in my inbox (5 replies, posted in Bugs and Requests)
Should be gone now.
1,692 Jun 15, 2011 2:06 am
Re: Do GameLink receptacles exists in the wild? (6 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
The problem with building an ArduinoBoy using a link cable socket is powering it. If you're using a big fat 'duino board with a shield, that may not be a problem, but if you're building a stand-alone unit, you'll want to do the pin swap mod so you get power supply from the Gameboy. You can't do this with a socket, as a standard cable doesn't carry the power wire.
And even so, link cables are cheap. Buy one and cut it in half. No big deal.
Another thing, why do you insist on mixing top and bottom layers as much as you can? Try to keep everything to the top layer so people who make PCBs at home can make a single-sided board. So far, the design can trivially be made to use only one side.
Why the top and not the bottom side? Because the first thing you need to consider for a single-layer shield design is connecting the pin header. You can't solder the pin header to a single-sided board if it's on the same side as the copper, since the plastic would be in the way.
Most of the components, yes, including both the opto-coupler and all the passive components can be placed on top and soldered on the top. The one thing that can't is the MIDI jacks. These would need to be pointing down and possible moved out as not to collide with the 'duino main board.
For inspiration: http://www.stephenhobley.com/blog/2011/ … lipshield/
1,693 Jun 13, 2011 1:53 am
Re: .lsdsong playlist rom? (12 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Saskrotch, I don't know if this would suit your needs, but I've thought about adding a playlist mode to LittleFM. Already now, you can press sel+start+B+A to get exit LSDj and get back to LittleFM. So what I was thinking about doing is adding an option to auto-load the next song when you press sel+start+B+A. Add t that tha LittleFM is heaps faster than LSDj's own file manager.
You'd still have to press sel+start+B+A at the end of the song, and start when the new song has loaded, but at least it would be a lot smoother. Actually, already now, LittleFM makes it easier to advance to the next song.
I know it's hard to get started with LittleFM, BTW. I need to write a proper patcher already, so people can apply it to any version of LSDj they want.
1,694 Jun 9, 2011 5:08 pm
Re: Virt talks about FM (34 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Zen Albatross wrote:
2 or 3 genesis (genesi?)
The logical form would be Geneses, I think.
1,695 Jun 9, 2011 2:07 pm
Re: NEW SILVER DMG BUTTONS! (44 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
kitsch wrote:
quBit, how many manhours do you think goes into a set like this?
also, metal buttons are conductive (unless they are coated with something which isn't, of course). one could conceivably 'wire' up these buttons and create contact points to do 'stuff'.
i'm not sure why, just a thought.
like a cracklebox.
for example, you'd need one 'master pole' to touch, then you could tap the metal buttons to trigger things. events, glitches, whatever.
this way the buttons won't be contact points, unless this master pole is touched as well.
this could work... and be pretty cool. with any conductive metal of course.
You could probably hook these up as a variable resistor ina pitch mod for example. Connect one wire to each button and use a sweaty thumb as a variable resistor. Don't know if you can use electronics solder with silver. You might be able to. The mod would be pretty much useless, but you could do it just to do it I guess...
1,696 Jun 8, 2011 11:04 pm
Topic: Virt talks about FM (34 replies, posted in General Discussion)
If you want to hear Virt talk about FM synthesis for 42 minutes, this is for you!
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