Month: February 2010

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  • Awesome Midi gameboy mod

    this is my midi enabled gameboy which i built. it uses a very high contrast gameboy pocket screen in it which has been adapted to fit, the screen has also been bi inverted thanks to bibbin and nitro’s hex inverter idea. It has a white backlight from Nonfinite, and used to be a clear gameboy with the inside painted white.

    i have also removed the text from the front of the gameboy to make it look cleaner and added purple snes buttons to match the purple LEDs in the middle.

    the middle has a metal bezel which has a small window inside the gameboy to show a pixel heart made out of 16 UV LEDs.
    the pixel heart is divided into 4 and shows the 5 modes of the Arduinoboy, blank for LSDJ master, to all on for midi.

    the mode switch is above the headphone socket which has been pro sounded.

    the arduino code has been edited from the original code written by Trash80, i changed how the lights light, so that the heart looked right, as well as “pulsing” in time to the music. i also modified pin 11 to work the speaker so that you get some beeps on mode change and start up.

    the midi socket is on the side which was a pain in the ass to fit, it involved cutting the mother board of the gameboy.

    and lastly the usb port is on the bottom for updating the arduino.

    the two gameboy carts are USB carts that i have modified to look awesome, the blue one has LSDJ on it and the white one has MGB.

  • Vanity – From Scratch (2009)

    Once upon a time on IRC, a french dude I spoke to in one of the 0-day emulation channels I used to frequent (where we excitedly saw the birth of Neo Geo emulation among other things!) kept babbling about this “Amstrad CPC” computer. I always heralded it as a sub-standard 8-bit platform that didn’t gain much success, but this dude was insistent and eloquent regarding his machine (which apparently was a huge hit n France). He showed me some stuff, progressively: games, demos, music, introduced me to emulation of said platform… To cut a long story short, I was soon on eBay hunting for an Amstrad CPC 6128, which I finally got.

    It’s a really great machine which has, in my opinion, one of the best fixed palettes among 8-bit computers, and our beloved AY-8192 PSG which we learned to love on the Spectrum (and the Atari ST’s cousin, the YM-2149).

    This is by far one of the best demos to date for this platform, I don’t know how they pushed so many colours on screen, but I am happy they did it.

    Enjoy it.

  • Apple II DMS Music Software for sale

    Introducing the Digital Music Synthesizer for Apple II personal computers! The DMS is the only wavetable synthesizer for the Apple //e, IIc, and IIc+ computers that is suitable for performance use. It supports up to 8 voices, which can be selected from the 10 on disk, and played (monophonically) from the Apple II keyboard. It can be used to “record” a performance for later playback as well. Also, the DMS doesn’t require a monitor! Just turn on your Apple II and when the drive light goes off. Then hit the space bar you’re ready to play live~!

    Sounds on disk are: Acoustic Piano, Vibraphone, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Bass, Trumpet, Clarinet, square wave, sawtooth wave, sine wave, and (for Bud Melvin)… Banjo!

    Here is a mp3 demo*: DMS Demo

    * Sounds EQ’d with some noise filtering.

    Requirements: A2.DMS requires an Apple //e, IIc, IIc+, or IIgs computer with 80-column capability, at least one 5.25” floppy disk drive. Monitor is optional.

    Download the instruction manual here

    You can purchase it over at the 8 Bit Weapon Store. (thx 8bitweapon)

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