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Well this sounds pretty great to me already.

If I'm having difficulties with longer or complex melodies I sometimes jam over the top of an lsdj loop with an old casio keyboard to find what fits.  If I'm feeling lazy I just shift one of the PU channels up/down an octave to beef it up or throw some W or V commands in there to add variety, like on those long sustained notes. Dunno if that helps at all.

Hey cool, nice idea. thanks for sharing them. i love these little clicks and whirrs. Be useful if i ever turn to the dark side of sample-based tracking.

Someone should do typewriter noises next

Oh god, this thread is just tragic. This whole minefield is why non-open software/hardware sucks.

To be honest if I had paid for the interface and not received it for this long, I would just make the damn thing myself its pretty simple, and the only barrier up until now has been the availability of the genesis 'firmware'. (ie, the rom). The hardware side is basically just an arduino connected to the joystick port, guides for which are already available for the sms i think, on littlescales blog.

I never ordered one when they were on sale so I would feel kinda weird just building it, knowing that little-scale explicitly never intended for it to be diy/open source. Aside from this bullshit incident he's contributed a lot to the chiptune community. I really wouldn't wanna 'rip him off' or like step on anyone's toes, cause he seems like a cool guy who maybe just didn't organise his business well or something.

I think the best thing that would happen now is if little-scale just did a lsdj-style license where he asks for a donation in return for all the compiled code, and leaves it to the user to get it onto the console. Or just opens up the source properly like trash80 did with arduinoboy?

Also until he at least says his opinion on people dl-ing the firmware and making it themselves (let alone an apology/explanation) i guess this project is abandonware, no?

Fuck it, maybe someone should just 'reverse engineer' and open-source version of the project... And then at least the peeps that ordered one could discuss and build it themselves without being made to feel like a pirate.

wooooo thanks! I'm so excited about this. Merry crimbus yo

If the software is distributed as a downloadable '.deb' file, you should be able to install it on Ubuntu, as other posters have said. Just download the file and use the dpkg command. https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/dpkg.html . You could also compile it from source, but that can be a bit complex for a new linux user.

I have always used the lacklustre ems-flasher program and never had any problems. I was a bit paranoid that it would mess up my saves at first because the ems carts can be a bit dodgy sometimes, but its a wonderful little piece of software. Can't recommend it enough.

I mostly just use my laptop for testing things and prefer to compose on hardware, but SunVox and Klystrack are really nice. Deflemask is cool because it basically does everything! I also sometimes use FUSE for zx spectrum/soundtracker, and have Goattracker installed but tbh i've never actually seen anyone use that apart from oldschool demo wizards. There's also VICE for commodore64 stuff if that's how you wanna roll.

Oh and AdlibTracker2 has just had a stable linux SDL port release, which now runs perfectly on my crap linux laptop! It used to stutter badly in DosBox.

the slowing down, weird symbols on the screen and unresponsive buttons thing can happen to DMGs when theres a lot of cpu intensive stuff going on in the song, e.g. lots of vibrato and portamento and complex tables. You sure it isnt just that? Like does it happen when youre playing games?

Good luck with the lcd, it sounds scary but it really isnt that hard

Wow, yeah well done, this is looking really good. I agree its maybe worth trying interrupts for the inputs? Also if i remember right the arduino bootloader does maybe add a bit of overhead to the code, which maybe could cause it to drop some bits?

Another thing could be trying direct port manipulation instead of sequential digitalReads. Think that's a bit faster, not sure how its done on teensy.

Sounds like you're on the right track though, thanks for sharing your progress and posting your code etc. Video capture without an FPGA is very exciting!