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1,922 Sep 23, 2010 1:31 pm
Re: The Eye of 8bitpeoples (85 replies, posted in General Discussion)
1,923 Sep 20, 2010 3:16 am
Topic: I need help from someone who owns a Nanoloop 1.x cartridge (6 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
I need help from someone who has the following item
One Nanoloop 1.4 or 1.5 cartridge.
One flash cartridge that you can write to.
One link cable.
Two Gameboys.
A way to record audio.
A little time over to help me
If this is you, please shoot me a mail at [email protected]
1,924 Sep 18, 2010 9:24 am
Re: Sabrepulse - Forget (intro question) (19 replies, posted in General Discussion)
It comes from the book Ultimate Journey by Robert Monroe.
It is generally believed that as we go through life we don't really change. We just become more of the same. Bar- ring the usual exceptions that, as we say, prove the rule, when we look around us as the years go by, this seems quite valid. On the whole, people don' t change, and most of us strongly resist change.
Nevertheless, all our worries and wars are based upon change. We fear that something will happen, or we fear that it won't; so we fight to prevent change or to speed up the pro- cess. But whatever we do, change is 100 percent guaranteed. The only question is its rate. Slow change we interpret as evolution, fast as revolution. Changes are the epitome of Un- knowns—the greatest of fear generators.
See: http://www.theshiftofconsciousness.info … urney.html
Robert Monroe has been experiencing out-of-body experiences, and that's what the book is about. The version in Sabrepulse's song is a paraphrase, so it's likely from a lecture or an interview, rather than an audio book version. Judging from other clips, it could very well be his own voice.
I hope that's useful and that you can do without a link to the source of the audio clip.
1,925 Sep 18, 2010 5:15 am
Re: A1200 + CF cards? (30 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
Perhaps the Amiga can only handle FAT16. If so, the maximum partition size is 2 GB. If it can handle FAT32, larger partition sizes are possible. FAT32 didn't exist back when the Amiga was created, but there might be a patch to make it supportFAT32. Someone else might be more knowledgeable about this.
Regular SD cards are only available in sizes up to 4GB. Cards that are bigger than that are "SDHC", which the adapter may not be compatible with. If someone told you to avoid SDHC cards, they're probably speaking out of experience. There might also be other, Amiga-related, limitations that I'm not aware of.
1,926 Sep 18, 2010 12:57 am
Re: writing faster music with underclocked gamebwoy on likkle sound (9 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
I don't think that the serial port is b0rk. It might be that the timings for the keyboard serial interface gets fucked up with an underclocked boy. Can anyone confirm?
1,927 Sep 17, 2010 9:26 pm
Re: writing faster music with underclocked gamebwoy on likkle sound (9 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
walter b. gentle wrote:
ok so i just underclocked my first gamebwoy
Your soundbwoy massive? 
Yes, you're right. When underclocking, everything runs at 50% speed (unless you underclock more than that. ) which includes tables and sweeps as well. Sweeps, as well pitch bends (P and L commands) are of course not continuous, but consist of small changes at a certain interval. On an underclocked gamebwoy massive boom boom boom, the time between each update is doubled. I recommend you to sync two boys and use the normal speed one as master. Use the underclocked one only for things that it is needed for, like bass-heavy stuff. Conserve CPU cycles. Avoid kits, use sweep on pu1 instead of the P command when you can. etc. If you're careful not to overload the CPU it will probably work fine.
1,928 Sep 16, 2010 10:45 pm
Re: Reliable Nanoloop 1.5 backup using audio recording or link port? (25 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
I posted this in the thread in the NL forum, but I'll post it here as well:
y0 oliver! Is there a program to convert recorded files to binary files, or do you rely solely on the method of using audio out for restoring data? I'd like to try making two things.
1) A program that analyzes these audio files and extracts the binary data.
2) A program that sends data back to the cartridge. This could be done using an Arduino or with program that runs on a second Gameboy and acts as a data storage. One doesn't exclude the other, of course.
A program running on a second Gameboy could obviously also act as a receiver and backup storage. (Assuming NL can also send data through the serial port.) This would also go well with my LittleFM project.
The problem for me though, is that I don't have a Nanoloop cartridge. I'm not going to beg for free a NL cart (although I wouldn't say no to one 
) but Oliver, could you please provide me with a binary save file (for reference) and an audio recording of the same file?
Also, does the transmitted data come with a checksum of some sort?
Oliver, if you want, you can reply to [my username]@gmail.com
1,929 Sep 16, 2010 4:15 pm
Re: Closed Threads with new posts (10 replies, posted in Bugs and Requests)
jefftheworld wrote:
Currently locked threads are not marked as such if there are new posts in them. They display the new posts icon and have no indication of being locked.
Not sure if you'll be able to get both to display at once, and it's not super important, but it has been a bit annoying on several occasions.
I guess it would be possible, but is it really that much of a problem? Do you spend 10 minutes formulating a reply in your mind just to scroll down to the bottom and realize the thread is locked?
herr_prof wrote:
Or maybe .. Whats up with the excessive locked threads?
Stoopid threads get locked. It's as simple as that.
1,930 Sep 16, 2010 10:10 am
Re: Data Acquisition Analysis Using the Fourier Transform (4 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I accidentally took the Fourier transform of my cat.
I also deliberately closed this thread.
1,931 Sep 16, 2010 1:37 am
Re: back in sweden (8 replies, posted in General Discussion)
10k wrote:
I thought this thread was going to be a bit more...
Don't make me...
1,932 Sep 15, 2010 10:04 pm
Re: Gameboy file archive (23 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
That's what all zip files look like. I actually started off by copying all the icons from Zabu's stuff page that I'm hosting and then added/tweaked icons as needed. And the MT icon, originally used for all binary files, remains for GBA files. I'll try to find a better icon for gba files.
1,933 Sep 15, 2010 3:20 am
Re: A1200 + CF cards? (30 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
PlainFlavored wrote:
However, hard disk failure is MUCH more based on chance than a finite amount of time, as they will fail, but it could be hours or decades.
Depends on how you look at it. As a probability function, based on the parameters build quality and load, the probability is very deterministic. So much in fact, that in a server environment where disks are put in RAID arrays, and for that reason have very similar loads, you can be almost sure that if one disk in a pair fails, the other one will fail too, within a month or two.
But seen from the perspective that you have a disk that you don't know how it's been used, if someone dropped the whole computer in the floor etc., you obviously have no clue as to the remaining lifetime.
PlainFlavored wrote:
Any flash memory you have will be discarded or lost or replaced long before it hits its write limit, and even then your data will still be readable/attainable.
Depends on what you do with it. If you for example install Windows on it, the wear will increase a whole lot. If you use it for an Amiga, you're probably safe.
Awol wrote:
Found this. I think I'll be safe with SanDisk cards.
OH! I didn't realize there's a PCMCIA slot on the Amiga. Now I see why you would want to buy that adapter.
1,934 Sep 15, 2010 2:42 am
Re: A1200 + CF cards? (30 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)
1) Funny thing is that I bought one of those PCMCIA CF adapters the other day. (That exact model.) What it does is more less connect the card as an IDE device. CF is supposed to be compatible with IDE. And sadly, some of the cheaper cards are not fully compatible and will not work. (They will just freeze the computer for as long as you have the card inserted.) It's a bit of a hit and miss. (However, cards that are not compatible with that adapter are likely not compatible with the Amiga either.)
But there's one more consideration. Since the card appears as an IDE device, DMA transfers might or might not work depending on the controller on your motherboard. If they don't, you're in for some slow transfers.
Conclusion: Get a USB->CF adapter.
2) Yes.
3) I can't judge what speed you need, but I can inform you that the speeds listed as "x" (133x, 266x etc) are read speeds compared to CD. In other words, number * 150 kBytes/s. So a 133x card, will give you about 20 MB/s under good conditions.
4),5) I'll leave these to someone else.
General comment, though: Hard disks fail based how long time they've been on and spinning. CF cards fail based on how many times you write to them. If you keep cycling the content on them, they'll wear out eventually, but if you mostly just read from them, they'll last forever, where a spinning disk would eventually fail.
1,935 Sep 15, 2010 2:12 am
Re: Chipmusic business card (10 replies, posted in General Discussion)
so can i close this yet?
[x] yes
[ ] no
1,936 Sep 14, 2010 6:58 pm
Re: Duckstructions (58 replies, posted in Collaborations)
First I was like...
... but then I
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