Category: Chipmusic

Toons from various consoles.

  • little-scale: Sega Comparisons

    little-scale writes:

    I’ve made recordings of a number of Sega Mega Drive-compatible consoles playing back the same music. The audio below has been normalised.

    • A. Sega Mega Drive 1 (output via headphone socket):
    • B. Sega Mega Drive 2 (output via AV socket):
    • C. Sega Genesis 2 (output via AV socket):
    • D. Sega Mega Drive 2 with CCAM Mod (output via additional RCA sockets):
    • E. Sega Nomad (output via headphone socket):

    My favourites are A and D, but I think for live shows D is a better option because of the form factor of a MD2 compared to the bulky MD1.

    via little-scale: Sega Comparisons.

  • Skrasoft 2A03 “Sound Chip” Progress

    2A03 triangle volumeLots of weekend news from skrasoft, developer of the 2a03 synth project. He writes

    As has been well-documented all across the Internet, the NES 2A03 is not a sound chip. Though it contains all the Nintendo sound hardware, it is very much a processor that needs properly-formatted program data to run.

    more  “Sound Chip” Progress.

    There are also posts about crude triangle volume control with audio, and another audio test. Project is looking good!

  • Happy 10th Birthday micromusic.net!

    micromusic hq writes:

    on august 7th 1999, carl – sitting in his stinky bed room – pressed the enter button and the micromusic.net website went online in all its blue-green-black-yellow-white glory… this was almost exactly
    10 years ago.

    since then, alot of things happened:

    • – 21982 people have registered to micromusic.net until now
    • – 821 events where added to the database
    • – 124589 mp3 from 5731 different artists were uploaded
    • – 787 tunez from 309 different artists were released by the QFS
    • – 326820 free tunez were downloaded from members
    • – 365388 clever microlinez were written
    • – 2.4 mio microtalk intelligent messages were sent
    • – 30 headquarters were founded – latest HQs: liverpool
    • – 459 hard/soft and other warez were added

    And to celebrate they have added more tracks fresh from the QFS

    • Seagulls                       by eat rabbit
    • Come Back To Me                by little-scale
    • Upstroke                       by The J. Arthur Keenes Band
    • The Tower                      by EvilWezil
    • This is what it means to feel  by pdfformat
    • hav_internet_need_halp         by mcfiredrill
    • Trial and Error by goatslacker
    • H.A.A.R.P. Man                 by Gakona
    • Nybbles And Bytes              by STA$D400

    || | www.micromusic.net | ||.

  • Jose Torres Presents : the Frankenboy

    3724597325_62ff7ceb1eThis is kinda amazing.. And has at least finally killed my Pandora lust :P.

    The question is, if the GB emulation isn’t emulated.. how? Also the sound emulation for the other systems will only be as good as current nix emulators?

    Details

    • I will be accepting preorders 9/9/9 ( September 9th, 2009 )
    • By this date we hope to have multiple color cases molded and a prototype ready for manufacture.
    • Development progress will be posted on Gameboydev.org
    • DMG Form Factor (with slight Modifications for extra ports).
    • 3.5″ 640×480 LCD Touch(!) Screen
    • Emulate NES, SNES, GENESIS, GBA, PSX.
    • Back Board Features:
    • 2 x DMG Brick CPUs
    • 2 x Programmable USB Carts Memory
    • 1 x Cartridge Slot
    • 1 x Switching Logic to Match CPU with slot and CPU with link port
    • 1 x OPL3
    • 1 x Link Port
    • Front Board Features:
    • 1 x Altera FPGA
    • 1 x Gumstix w/ WIFI Option
    • 1 x HDMI Port
    • 1 x Taco Midi
    • 1 x 8 Channel Audio Codec

    FAQ:
    Will you still be making Drag-n-Drop Carts? Yes.
    Will current Gameboy Cartridges work with this device? Yes. You can select which CPU it runs on.
    Will you be able to run two copies of LSDJ at once? YES. You can have both side/side or toggle between screens.
    How much will it be?
    Estimate $149 w/o Gumstix

    via Forums | 8bc.org – Online Chiptune Media Sharing.

  • My first day at Blip Europe by glomag

    My spider-sense is tingling...
    My spider-sense is tingling…

    Aalborg, DK 072309

    Chip musicians were arriving all day on Friday like flies attracted to shit. Luckily there was a very large spider present to capture us all (see picture)

    Sweden is well represented here amongst performers and attendees. Jonas from Microdisko (the best drinking partner ever,) had helped promote the event. He found us at the hostel in the early afternoon and we headed over to the venue for sound checks. Another nice surprise: Divag, who I had met years ago at a show in Paris made it up here as well with his girlfriend. Psilodump showed up during sound check as did Covox.

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