Is it so big problem to fix the ports in Sound Tracker to the Timex ones? There could be little more troubles if AY clock frequency is different, then you'll need to replace frequency table too, but nothing impossible.
242 Sep 7, 2010 10:52 am
Re: *.tfc Playback on Everdrive (37 replies, posted in Sega)
It would require format change. I don't want any major changes in the project, I only want to finish it, finally (fix the export bug, add some minor things), and forget about it. So this feature have to wait indefinitely for another project.
243 Sep 7, 2010 9:33 am
Re: *.tfc Playback on Everdrive (37 replies, posted in Sega)
If I understood you correctly, the volume column does exactly the same.
244 Sep 6, 2010 9:09 am
Re: *.tfc Playback on Everdrive (37 replies, posted in Sega)
Export the same file few times (from command line) and compare the sizes of the files. If they are different, then yes, yo have export problem, and you can't do much with it (other than trying to use another computer). If the sizes are always the same, then you have some other problem.
245 Sep 5, 2010 1:26 pm
Re: *.tfc Playback on Everdrive (37 replies, posted in Sega)
Global scaling is in my todo list for a long time.
There is no TL scaling, but isn't TL set (8xx etc) is pretty much the same, only less comfortable?
246 Sep 5, 2010 7:13 am
Re: *.tfc Playback on Everdrive (37 replies, posted in Sega)
Command tfmaker -tfd nameofyour.tfe will produce TFD file from TFE without running the editor. You can enter it directly in command line, or use BAT file (put the command into plain text file, change extension to .bat). To simplify things, put both the editor and the module into the same folder.
247 Sep 2, 2010 7:28 am
Re: *.tfc Playback on Everdrive (37 replies, posted in Sega)
Make sure that the file itself is not corrupted, using WinAmp plugin. The editor has a problem with export function, it is unstable, and sometimes produces corrupted files. You can avoid that by using command-line export option instead of exporting from the editor.
248 Aug 19, 2010 7:02 am
Re: Beepola - Sinclair Spectrum cross-platform beeper tracker (23 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)
ne7, don't you want to enter beeper music compo at Chaos Constructions 2010?
249 Aug 16, 2010 11:31 am
Re: Beepola - Sinclair Spectrum cross-platform beeper tracker (23 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)
ne7, please upload your song at ChipMusic in MP3 as well, so more people will be able to listen it.
250 Aug 13, 2010 9:26 am
Re: Sega Saturn - SCSP/YMF292 (34 replies, posted in Sega)
Probably because the consoles those days were used as CD players as well, just like PS3 used as Blu-Ray player today.
251 Jul 28, 2010 8:31 am
Re: Soundcloud Group (8 replies, posted in General Discussion)
There are few other 8-bit/chiptune groups, actually. chiptunes, The 8bit Sound, Chip Tunes.
252 Jul 27, 2010 2:00 pm
Re: Favorite Punk, Hardcore, Grind, etc... (39 replies, posted in General Discussion)
My current favorite local punk band, RadioChacha. The song is about the singer refuses to settle down and become more serious in his early 40s.
254 Jul 22, 2010 8:10 am
Re: "Pulsar" demo (224 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)
Scrolling is obsolete technology.
255 Jul 21, 2010 10:36 pm
Re: " The Humane Reader: A $20 'computer' " (19 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)
I don't know any ready-made design, so I judge by prices only. The cheapest ATMega328p (8-bit MCU) I've found is $4 (for large quantifies), so $12 total. The cheapest LPC2138 I've found is $7.5 (for large quantifies), it is ARM7 (32-bit MCU) with 512K Flash, 32K RAM and 52MIPS - much better. You can even add one ATMega328p for video generation/USB, if you don't want to load main CPU with all this stuff, and still it will be the same price.
256 Jul 21, 2010 9:57 pm
Re: " The Humane Reader: A $20 'computer' " (19 replies, posted in Other Vintage Computers & Consoles)
Apple II+ had 48K RAM for loadable programs. This thing has 32K of Flash inside the MCU for all the programs, the code can't run from RAM, and you can't reflash it too often (resource is 10K times). It also has only 2K of RAM per MCU, external RAM is much slower. As personal computer it is actually inferior even to Apple II+. That's because MCU's aren't designed for building general-purpose computers, they are for embedded devices (like this thing in unhacked form). I think, they simply choose wrong HW for the device, there are a lot of better solutions in the same price range. I also can understand why they choose AVR, it is good thing for learning and education, and widely used for this.