33 Reply by n00bstar

(20 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I'm fairly certain anyone who sings is a singer, even if only momentarily.

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34 Reply by n00bstar

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Nobody in their right fucking mind would want to make music under the name n00bstar. Thankfully, I have no self esteem, nor any talent. So it's all good.

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35 Reply by n00bstar

(62 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Here we go again...

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36 Reply by n00bstar

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Ah... well then, I'm fucked because it's an STF. No modulator here. So Pin 2 outputs only composite sync signals, not the complete composite video signal. Hmmm I will have to fuck around on the web and see if I can make some kind of little box that can turn the composite sync + rgb signals into a full composite video signal. Must be possible. I hope.

DAMN YOU OLD COMPUTERS AND YOUR STUPID VIDEO OUTPUTS.

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37 Reply by n00bstar

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Two of my three PC screens have a composite input (yeah... weird, I know) so I bought myself this cable. Any idea if I just wasted 12$ because my screens won't sync, or am I good to go? I honestly don't care much for pixel perfect quality.. I just want to be able to use musicmon.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/like/3903222 … mp;viphx=1

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38 Reply by n00bstar

(10 replies, posted in Collaborations)

This looks super nice. Good job!

I'd love to pitch in for music and sounds, but I never used the pico8 tracker. Are the development tools free? Or can you share your license? Anyways.. here's some of my crappy music, see if you like it: https://n00bstar.bandcamp.com/

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39 Reply by n00bstar

(33 replies, posted in General Discussion)

How about...

Large Tempo
Vast Rhythm
Massive Cadence
Brobdingnagian Palpitation
Extensive Thump
Mountaineous Throb

Just adding "New" in front of something is probably doomed to fail. Remember New Coke? That's right.. nobody does.

big_smile

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40 Reply by n00bstar

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I think it depends on the loop itself really. One contract I had was for 20 second loops for a short warioware style game with quick minigames. Looping them 4-5 times to get a proper song length just felt awkward and repetitive. That's why I started giving them intros, middle eights, and an actual ending. Even if the whole song ends up being only 1:30 long, it at least has a feeling of completedness to it. My guideline was "at least two loops of the main part, plus an intro" and if I ended up being inspired to add more, I would. Some of the final songs are quite short, but others ended up at the 2-3 minutes mark.

In the end, any way you release them is fine as long as you're happy with the end result. As long as it loops often enough to let the people enjoy the song, and not too often that it feels repetitive, you're in a good spot I think.

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41 Reply by n00bstar

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Interesting...

I'm presently compiling all the songs I made for video games in the last year and came up with a similar "problem" as a lot of them were short-ish loops. Thing is, I *hate* fading out a song. It feels like a cop out. Like... "well I didn't know how to finish my track so Imma just walk away slowly....."

So I started making "album versions" of all the tracks. I make an actual intro, outtro, add a few more things to the track and make it a real song. The main loop that's in the game is still in there though, unchanged. Kind of like if the game's version was actually a cut out of these tracks, even though the loops were the original versions.

It does add a shit ton of work though. What I thought I would be releasing last summer is just now getting finished. Phew!

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42 Reply by n00bstar

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w00t. Price is just fine, no worries there. Shipping this would be a pain in the ass anyways. I once had an amiga shipped to me with the screen. Damn thing ended up costing me more in shipping fees than what I paid for the machine. Never again big_smile

And yes, a disk or two to get me going would totally rock. I've been looking at XLR8 and it looks petty decent. I really hope I can get the low res thing worked out soon so I can try Musicmon 2.5. It really looks kick ass.

Let me know when you're planning to come to Montreal and we'll get this set up!

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43 Reply by n00bstar

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@yogi. Yeah she's a keeper. She got all excited when I told her what I planned to do with the machine. I told her I missed my old A1200 and she wrote the name down and promised she'd try to get me one. If she scores me an old 1200, I will marry her ON THE SPOT. smile

@xyno. SIX YEARS? Dammit sad I looked around the interweb and there's a couple SC1224 for sale, mostly packaged with an ST, but they cost a fucking arm and a leg. I hate myself now because I threw an SC1224 out in the trash a few years ago when my old ST died just a week after getting it. I would totally take you up on the mouse offer though! And if you have too many SM124's laying about, I could buy one off of you if you're not using them. That would at least get me up and running to see if the computer works properly and check if the disk drive is still good and all that jazz before I start investing in replacing the TOS chips and getting an SD card drive and all that jazz.

I've started cleaning it up. There were a couple of scratches on it that I thought I wouldn't be able to get rid of, but they came riiiiight off. It's a fucking beauty now. I SO VERY MUCH WANT TO USE IT DAMMIT.

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44 Reply by n00bstar

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HAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHA

I'm a god damn idiot.

I just looked UNDER the case. Y'know.. where you have all the information written?

So yeah, it's a 1040STF smile  While the lack of a monitor output makes it a tad more complicated for me, I think I'd rather have a 1040 in the end.

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45 Reply by n00bstar

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Alright. Got it opened up!

Damn there's a LOT of dust in there. Literally years of it. Anyways.. got it opened and I think my guess of it being a frankentari might be correct after all.

The motherboard revision is C070523-001 D. After some digging around on the webternet, it could either a 1040 STF or a 520 STFM. While the label on the keyboard says 520 STFM, there's no monitor output either on the case, or on the motherboard. The metal shield however does have the holes for them, but I'm guessing every atari has those since it would make no sense to produce two different metal shields.

The ram is also fully populated, which leads me to think it's a 1mb model?

So... no monitor out, and apparently 1mb of ram. I think my 520STFM might be a 1040STF. Am I wrong?

Damn I can't wait to get this beast running so I can know for sure what I have!

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46 Reply by n00bstar

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Still haven't left for work. Googling the shit out of this.. I am going to be so late. Tsk. Damn nerdiness.

So... It seems there's a slew of MonitorPort-to-VGA connectors available for cheap, but from what I read you need a monitor/tv that will sync down to 15khz if you want to use the low/med colour mode. Seems that the 30khz hi-res mono mode works find on just about any monitor.

Now, from my brief experience with the Atari, ages ago, I seem to remember being unable to run most music software in hires mode. Am I correct?

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47 Reply by n00bstar

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Panda Chan wrote:

I still can't get over finds like this... how do people just stumble across things and why can't this happen to me?!

Haha yeah I know it's super annoying when it happens to others. I'm always like "you found a tb303 in the trash? how about fucking right off?"

Strangely enough, even though it has the FM tag right on it, it doesn't have the RF output. Maybe it's some super early (or late?) version of it? Or maybe it's a frankentari and has been put together from the carcasses of other ataris. I found some cables online that will convert the monitor output to VGA + Sound. That seems to be my best option, because I also noticed there's not a single sound output on the back of it. My guess is that the cover was damaged at some point and got replaced by an STFM cover. It's probably 520STF undeneath the hood.

When I get back from work tonight I'm going to open it up and start cleaning it, I'll get a better idea of what it is exactly when I see the innards.

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48 Topic by n00bstar

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Hello fellow nerds!

So I was having a smoke outside work in the alley, when all of the sudden, coming back from the break, my most amazing girlfriend goes "hey look at that old thing" and I went "OMFG@#$$^"

There it was, leaning on the side of a wall, a lone Atari 520STFM. I thought "Fuck's sake! My girlfriend is totally ace at spotting random old computers in weird places". Needless to say I now have to marry her.

But anyways. I plugged it and turned it on. It powers just fine, disk drive lights up and seems to be booting up. Unfortunately the guy who threw it out didn't include a monitor, or mouse, or any software so I'm kind of stuck.

I was wondering if any of you guys had any good resources to acquire a mouse and monitor for it? In fact, anything that could help me get this baby up and running would be super appreciated. Software, hardware, anything. Popular mods? Or aftermarket made-by-nerds adapter-a-ma-jigs to hook it up to newer hardware? Throw it all at me! I want to get this beast screaming mad chiptunes!!!

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