Category: resources

  • 1-bit Music Roundup on Chipflip

    GOTO Dreamy
    GOTO Dreamy

    GOTO80‘s chip theory blog is always entertaining, and he has written a rad overview on making 1-bit music on z-80 based systems. An excerpt:

    Ok, the new thing is 1-bit music made with Z80! Just like with the AppleII-post before, this is me being an astonished newbie. It sounds so nice and data, I can’t believe it’s not a sound chip!

    …

    So yesterday I found this and this, filled with mp3s of Z80-music made with the ZX Spectrum (or clones). This is how it works, according to Yerzmey: “Z80 chip produces all sounds and sends them into BEEPER and AUDIO-OUT connector of ZX SPECTRUM (jack) through ULA chip”. Normally you can play 1 channel square waves, but with the 3.5 MHz of this Z80 you can play samples and get up to 8 channels of sounds! So this is another example of chip music that does not only play sounds immanent inside sound chips, but uses the CPU to create a sort of softsynth.”

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  • Blip Festival Workshops Announced

    Gowanus Uwanna
    Gowanus Uwanna

    12 06 • Saturday
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    12:00 noon – Surrealtime 2: 8-bit Demo Show with Andy Voss
    • Phoenix (MindCandy DVD, Hornet PC demo archive) returns to showcase the latest and greatest demos on Atari 8-bit, C64, Vic-20, ZX Spectrum, and more. New this year will be demos made on homebrew 8-bit hardware and the DTV joystick, delving a little into the “circuit bending” phenomenon.  You’ll be amazed by the visual effects and music that can be wrestled out of primitive hardware.
    1:00 p.m. – 2A03 Workshop :: Crash Course in FamiTracker with Baron Knoxburry
    • A one hour adventure through FamiTracker’s abilities to program the Nintendo Entertainment System’s 2a03 audio chip.  Baron Knoxburry shall expound upon the qualities and limitations of each voice, how to build instruments, explore all the effects commands, and try to maintain an open forum for discussion in the process.  And for anyone who thinks they know it all already — there will be a one hour competition starting 10 minutes before this workshop begins, so you can compete with the Baron of Knoxburry as he tries to teach a class! These fresh tracks, programmed within an hour, will be played back during the final 10 minutes so we can hear a variety of different styles.
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  • High Voltage SID Collection – Update #49 released!

    The end all be all collection of C64 music
    The end all be all collection of C64 music

    Good news, fans of SID music! A new update of the famous High Voltage SID Collection is up!

    After this update, the collection should contain 36,081 SID files!
    This update features (all approximates):
    1059 new SIDs
    54 fixed/better rips
    2 fixes of PlaySID/Sidplay1 specific SIDs
    10 repeats/bad rips eliminated
    431 SID credit fixes
    232 SID model/clock infos
    9 tunes from /DEMOS/UNKNOWN/ identified
    40 tunes moved out of /DEMOS/ to their composers’ directories
    14 tunes moved out of /GAMES/ to their composers’ directories

    Among my favourite new tunes, you can check out:

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  • SNDH Archive Updated

    MMM TARI
    MMM TARI

    The SNDH Atari ST music file archive has been updated to version 2.9.

    Complete list of new files available after the jump.
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  • xlr8r covers 8bit theft

    Due to space considerations, the jellica centerfold was cut.

    Written the the Scene’s own Nathaniel Adams, Techno and etc music journal xlr8r touches on the recent amount of chip theft that has plagued the perhaps too trusting nature of the scene. The article is a good starting point, but if your curious there are deeper articles on the topic here and here.