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(7 replies, posted in Atari)

Hello Yogi! I will ask Mono...

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(2 replies, posted in Atari)

XEL will be available as kit, pcb or fully mounted computer...

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(1 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Tropical House sounds to me as FM music or SEGA music. So lets make some/post/remix Tropitunes here too...

For example:

Clean Bandit - Rather Be ft. Jess Glynne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-M1AtrxztU

Song can have structure of FM / PSG + acoustic (guitar, violin or piano) sounds and house drums and 80s/90s basslines.

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(3 replies, posted in Tutorials, Mods & How-To's)

TRON!

I will compose music too!
In VGMmm (@DELEK - I know I know I needs to learn Deflemask in 2017).
Futuristic Dystopian Scifi Song!
And Catskull and others can I make free DJ show/gig after summer in one hipster coffee in my town???
@Nula - Ahoj!
^elan

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(2 replies, posted in Atari)

Year 2017 is HHHUUUGGGEEE for 8bit ATARIs (smaller brothers of Atari ST).
There are 2 most amazing projects since 80s! Brand new ATARI boards which fits
into MAC MINI like mini ITX PC cases!!!

ATARIBITS (ataribits.com) brings us ATARI compatible 1088XEL mini ITX board.
With real CPU and original 2x POKEY (8 channels), PS/2 keyboard and mouse accelerator, 1MB RAM and flash for multiple OSes,PC USB connection for loading and saving games,Atari joystick ports,cartridge port...So ideal Atari for tracking music or playing old or new games...Original and clean sound from original Atari PSG Pokey chips with 8channels stereo.Or with mpt you can have 6channels PSG and 2 PCM samples...

LINKS:
http://ataribits.weebly.com/1088xel.html

DEV-FORUM:
http://atariage.com/forums/topic/261147 … ct/page-15

PICTURE:

XEL will be masterpiece based upon original ATARI board design.

Another beautiful amazing miniITX board is bassed on FPGA miniITX EclairéXL. It is not using original chips on other hand
you will have ultra fast 28MHz 6502 turbo mode faster than AMIGA!!! Ideal for watching 3D demos or playing unplayable
vector or 3D games... Dual pokey... Or using 28MHz for unknown pokey effects!!! Everything is HW emulated. But
Extremely compatible with existing software...

PICTURE:

Dev-FORUM:
http://atariage.com/forums/topic/258454 … a-project/
http://www.atari.org.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?id=14499

So I hope you will buy/build new boards. And use them together with SIDs, GAMEBOYS,NESes as POKEY sounds supercute too!
Price of boards will be almost same as price of old Atari 130XE from 1985 or 2x NESes on ebay. So 200-300USD. But everything will be brand new. Manufactured in small series (so why price is little bit higher). Anyways in price of 4x Nike sneakers or price of snowboard
you will gets highest Atari 8bit HW specs. Atari 130XE got 128KB of ram and 1x POKEY. With new boards you will get 1024KB of ram and 2x pokey. SDcard...
Plus you will be unicorn on chipmusic scene. As there are very few Pokey musicians out there. It means original sound!

Nice anyone else?

Yep I will try wash plastic and put them on fresh air. But here is like -20°C so will wait until spring...
Thanks for nice tips. I wrote to AKAI they replied that smell is from that mold press... But it is not toxic.

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(32 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Happy B-day. You had made several positive comments on my posts (matej,tinctu)...

Its not like new smell. Its like horrible smell. Like chemicals on keyboard. Madio Oxygen was smelling even worse. I felled like I am going to poke. I sold it on web auction only for this reason. Probably this AKAI will goes too... Its little bit sad that one must make blacklist of cheap plastic manufacturers. Also I live in EU and their health regulations on products should be high. Or I should buy in musical store and smell everything before buy? This is nonsense...

I have buyed AKAI mpk 2 mini limited edition with black keys. Looks so nice!
Looks amazing. Lot of good settings in driver and extra software as bonus.
But my problem is that it smells horrible. Like toxic plastic. Stinks so bad!
I wrote to eshop where I have buyed it. They made jokes of me... They will not
exchange it. So I am so F&$*g sad. It was my gift for Xmas...
I also own Arturia key made in France and it doesnt smell at all.
I have some breathing problems and I dont want use it...
I wrote to AKAIPRO but still waits for their reply. It was not cheap
like 100Euro.

Do you also experience similar problems of toxic smell of MIDI keys/controllers???
This keyboard was made in Asia...
I had Maudio Oxygen in past and same problem... Plus my stomach hurt.

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(34 replies, posted in Sega)

VGM Music Maker is for Megadrive. And yes there is PCM sample channel + FM channels + PSG channels. So it is robust music chip YM2612.
Yamaha OPL3 was pretty advanced - YMF262...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLNCcuDx7rU

So I am pretty sure that SEGA SATURN can sound like todays FM VSTis.
Or oldschool synths...

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(1 replies, posted in Atari)

Now UNOcart can save into ATR atari floppy images!

YOUTUBE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOxkTCKIIrI

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(24 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

This sounds massive! As Farbraush VSTi or Atari Falcon AceTracker... Where can I buy PocketCHIP in EU???

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(11 replies, posted in Sega)

Aloha.

I googled this yesterday!

For all owners Sharp MZ, SEGA MASTER SYSTEM, Game Gear, Megadrive, Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, Acorn BBC micro i have good news. There was released SNEVEN TRACKER for SN76489 PSG soundchip. It is modded Famitracker so it very good GUI.

DOWNLOAD:
https://github.com/HertzDevil/SnevenTra … tag/v0.1.0

SN76489 DATASHEET:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_SN76489
http://www.zeridajh.org/articles/variou … /index.htm
http://www.smspower.org/Development/SN7 … 2af56807f1

SCREENSHOT:

Now we need SMS / MD - GENNY native player  big_smile.

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(15 replies, posted in Atari)

Yep. Exactly same but on one motherboard. Yes I am going own 2 of these (link).
My idea is to have this but A800:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT3hSbBGU9Y