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(89 replies, posted in General Discussion)

https://www.instagram.com/jefftheworld

You'll get both exclusive previews of chip music as well as endless photos of electronics engineering.

Firefox is now warning users of any non-secure login.

I'm unfamiliar with Limited Run, do they properly license all the music and art they sell?

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(4 replies, posted in Atari)

I've got a bunch of RMT stuff that I'm working on currently. Hopefully I will get some of it done soon.

I also own an 800XL.

urbster1 wrote:
O R
OL
OLR

@jefftheworld is right, but the second line should read OL. this sounds like the snare in the broken mirrors tune

Ha ha, yeah, good catch.

If you want a bit of stereo width on the sound, you can add something like this to the start of it's table:

O R
OL
OLR

Assuming that's a relatively fast-moving channel, that'll add a phasey/wide stereo effect, at the cost of a bit of switching noise.  It'll be played at the maximum speed unless a Gxx command overrides the default table speed.

I don't really hear any stereo effects on that snare. Just set your snare sound to LR and leave it there, no need for any Oxx commands.

tearauth wrote:
tearauth wrote:

and the latest ones even support letsencrypt which would be free

jefftheworld wrote:

You don't need to purchase an SSL cert if you are using Let's Encrypt.

Not all heros wear a cape, we appreciate you

Such sass for no reason. I was just reiterating that you can get a free let's encrypt cert even if your host does not directly support it.

The way that you word it makes it seem that you need to purchase an SSL cert if you choose to manually install it.

tearauth wrote:

If you do end up having to do it manually (if your VPS allows write access to the server config files) then you'll first need to find out if you're running apache or nginx, buy an apache ssl certificate from a provider such as godaddy, go through the process to generate the files required to upload to generate the certificate, upload those to the vps (with ssh i imagine), and reference them in the apache or nginx vhost

You don't need to purchase an SSL cert if you are using Let's Encrypt.

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(8 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

HimsyPimsy wrote:

This is a pretty definitive guide:

game boy sound comparison

That guide is a fantastic comparison of the hardhelds but one thing to keep in mind is the Super Game Boy, Super Game Boy 2 and Game Boy Player. All three use real hardware, the latter two even include a link port, and the Game Boy Player in particular has very little noise. It's a fantastic studio option.

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(4 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Yeah, I find with a P and L command you can now easily get the exact bass drum sound you want at any BPM or tickrate(groove). It's much easier than before.

Perhaps it'll be annoying for those of you who mostly just memorized a couple tables for sounds you liked but adding a P and L and tweaking the values until you get the sound you want will open up a whole lot of versatility.

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(5 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I did this a while back to shut down an idiot. I thought we all decided back then that the ultimate judge of a songs worth was the human ear and we should all just admit that the tools used are purely there for the enjoyment, efficiency and inspiration of the musician?

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(6 replies, posted in General Discussion)

The books that Make publishes are a great way to get started because they teach you the fundamentals with the primary purpose of understanding, modifying and hacking away at your own projects.

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(8 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

Works fine with an arduinoboy and I'll be testing it soon with a new device that was recently teased for CV:

http://chipmusic.org/forums/post/251717/#p251717

nitro2k01 wrote:

jeff: Currently, chipmusic.org runs on a Site5 account. There's ssh access but I believe it's managed hosting, so no access to root or global server config. According to their FAQs, LE is not supported at this time. If you have information on how to get LE working on Site5 in particular I'd be willing to listen. But otherwise, switching to a different provider is unfortunately something that neither me nor Tim has the time to do atm.

I'm not familiar with the specifics of that host but looking at the FAQ it seems to use SiteAdmin or cPanel? Both have some form of SSL Manager in the options that'll let you upload and configure your SSL/TLS. Most managed hosting doesn't allow you to directly touch Apache/server configs but the management interface almost always allows SSL/TLS configuration.

Forcing https:// is just a few simple lines in your .htaccess, something like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://chipmusic.org/$1 [R=301,L]
bryface wrote:

so what's the over-under on swapping the flash player with a fully HTML5 player?  i can help source a suitable player (though it's not hard to just make one from scratch, with the <audio> element and a few well-placed JS handlers)

I built my website's music player on jPlayer and it's API is both comprehensive and logical. It requires jQuery, so if you prefer plain js then you'd want to look elsewhere.

I think that it's high time that chipmusic.org added SSL and all traffic used secure connections. Our traffic here might not seem "important" but I think these days that all web traffic ought to be secure and it's no longer prohibitively expensive to do.

Thanks to the EFF and Let's Encrypt the process is now free and relatively easy. I've been using Let's Encrypt signed certificates on all of my websites for a while now and I'm more than happy to answer any questions about how to go about the process if any of the admins have questions.