Audio issues have been fixed, you've already missed Blip Noir!  Don't miss bossFYTE, Dkstr or myself!

5 minute smoke break and then they're going to play!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDb1bVDFZRc

9:30-10:00 Opening Statements, Open Mic
10:00-10:30 .EXE (He might be sick, we'll see!)
10:30-11:00 Blip Noir
11:00-11:30 bossFYTE
11:30-12:00 Dkstr
12:00-12:30 jefftheworld

867

(3 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

It's actually dead easy as long as you've got the right tools. Look up drag soldering.  You'll need a fine, flat solder tip and solder paste but it's really quite simple.

If you look on youtube you can see the technique demonstrated.

868

(13 replies, posted in Past Events)

Will there be an open mic?  I've been meaning to visit a few of my Michagander friends and this would be a neat way to spend an evening.

Hey folks,

I'm throwing a release party for my new album on thursday and I'm lucky enough that a bunch of really cool musicians are going to be performing at the release so I want to share that with the world and offer a live stream for you folks at home.

Performances from Dkstr, bossFYTE, Blip Noir, .Exe and me (of course).


There's a few details and a countdown if you visit the link below and the stream itself will go up on that page, too (so it's nice and simple).

http://jefftheworld.com/the-last-day/

Hope you guys enjoy chip music as much as I do, you'll see me dancing like an idiot when all of the other performers are doing their thing!

870

(7 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

Sorry, that was a typo.  The issues were with 1.03.  I'll be trying out 1.04 now, though!

871

(111 replies, posted in LittleGPTracker)

I'll take a screenshot later, but I'm rocking a FT2-esque 'space pigs' theme.

872

(11 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)

akira^8GB wrote:

POTY and POTX signals will NOT kill the SID, you are much better off  eliminating the EXT IN signal for that

Yeah, did so.  I also grounded it to get rid of the noise, though I may get around to a feedback mod at some point.

873

(7 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

Hey folks,

Finally had a sit down with Pulsar and what I've been able to explore I've liked very much, but the v1.02 that I have seems to be very unstable.  It crashes, hangs or throws out weird graphical glitches too often for me to even work on composing a song.

Does anyone (perhaps even Neil himself) have any experience with this sort of behaviour?  I'm running it using a Powerpak on a very well maintained NES.  The NES and Powerpak have no stability issues with any other software, so my thought was maybe it had to do with the custom mapper or my Powerpak software version.

Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

874

(11 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)

I've already cut a hole in the cardboard/foil above the SID chip and I've disabled the joy ports to prevent the SID getting killed that way.  Guess I'll leave it at that for now.

875

(11 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)

jbuonacc wrote:
chunter wrote:

There already is a heat spreader in a breadbox C64, a sheet of aluminum between the pcb and the keyboard.

not on a breadbox C64, unless maybe it's one of the late models before they switched to the new case. most classic 'breadbox' C64s have the cardboard/foil shield over the PCB, which actually traps heat in. better to remove this if yours has it. late model and (all?) 64c (new case) models have the metal shield/heat sink in them.

Well then, based on the fact that Commodore themselves added heatsinks to later models, I think that answers my question as to whether it's worthwhile.

^__^

876

(11 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)

chunter wrote:

There already is a heat spreader in a breadbox C64, a sheet of aluminum between the pcb and the keyboard.

None of my breadbox C64s have any proper heat spreaders.  They have these awful aluminum-covered cardboard inserts that do nothing for heat dissipation (and I'm skeptical as to whether they do much for EMI reduction either).

877

(11 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)

Recently I've been getting increasingly nervous about the SID chip in my breadbox C64 overheating.  Unlike the C128, there's no heatsink on the chip and it's known to run quite hot.

First, I'd like to know if it's really worth adding some sort of heat spreader to the chip or if I'm just being paranoid and secondly I'm wondering what your suggestions would be for doing so.  There's no easy way of screwing a heatsink in, so my solution would probably involve some sort of non-conductive clip attached to the IC socket.

I've seen only a couple of people online adding heatsinks to their C64s, so any links to addition resources would be welcome.

878

(2 replies, posted in Releases)

Oh, awesome!  A mod should merge this if possible.  I was looking for an "upcoming releases" section, but didn't think to look for a thread.

879

(2 replies, posted in Releases)

Thought I'd throw the teaser for my upcoming album on here.  I'm throwing a release party here in Toronto on the December 20th and then the album will go online for free (assuming the world doesn't end the next day). 

I'd love it if you shared the promo video around but more importantly if you're going to be in Toronto and you want to attend or perform you should certainly send me a shout!

880

(28 replies, posted in General Discussion)

To all the Michanganders and New Jerseyans, feel free to send me an email if/when you want to do some shows up here!