Category: software

  • NO CARRIER’s NES soft circuit bending

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    NO CARRIER writes:

    This is an example of what I like to call soft circuit bending. When you circuit bend a Nintendo/NES you usually end messing up the graphics and corrupting the RAM. This ROM does just that, but with software – and you can see the results are similar to what you’d expect with hardware circuit bending.

    All effects in the video are controlled by buttons – when the image is static a button isn’t being pressed. You can see that there are a lot of possibilities, including pressing multiple buttons to simultaneously scroll and corrupt the screen.

    If you’re interested in this and want to know more, check out my web site soon.

    I plan to have tutorials to help you write your own NES bending software with full open source examples. In the future I will also have kits for sale for those that would like to run these ROM’s on real NES systems

    His website.

  • TinySIOPM MML appeared

    gamingjustin explains:

    The site is designed to let people post and edit other people’s flash applications; neat idea. What’s even more neat is someone wrote an MML Editor and whipped up a song for demonstration. Anyone can write a song on-the-fly in a browser using MML.

    Check it out

    Click in the right window and hit shifter+enter to start/stop the songs playback.

  • DigiBooster Professional 3 (Amiga) in the works

    FT2 look-a-like for the Amiga
    FT2 look-a-like for the Amiga

    DigiBooster Pro was a quite popular tracker for the Amiga in the 90s. Stuck at version 2 something, APC & TCP, a german publisher of Amiga software, is working to deliver an update to this powerful tracker. Currently on internal Alpha #17th, and with a planned demo release in 3-4 months, we had a sneak-peak at this interesting new software.

    Looking like a FastTracker 2 sort-of-thing, the features list seems promising, juicy and, judging from the minimum requirementes, this will run in a stock A1200, which is cool. Want to try how the old version felt like? You can download the full version 1.7 and demo versions of the latest and previous releases at the Digibooster webpage.

    This is the complete list of features planned so far: (more…)

  • Famitracker updated to 0.2.9

    famipngVersion 0.2.9 is out.

    New in this version

    – New effects Q, R (pitch slide), A (volume slide)
    – Fixed a tempo bug in the tracker
    – VRC6 support added
    – Improved the song editor
    – Added options to disable follow mode when playing and customizable row highlighting
    – Added clear patterns command
    – Wave file export
    – Added .NES file exporting
    – Improved hardware sweep commands in the tracker again
    – Fixed a bug where NSFs would fail if there was deleted instruments in the file
    – Fixed a problem with NSF bankswitching
    – Fixed some problems with note delay command in tracker and NSF

    thx B00daW

  • Chipstar Heroes unite

    product-shredz64With all the hype around Guitar Hero and Rockband (following the successful trail of the “DDR-type” games), the oldschool machines feel kind of left out of the loop.

    Fear ye not, my fellow oldschooler, for beautiful minds in the Amiga and C64 scene bring us software to enjoy ripping it on our old machines, with class.

    What’s  so cool about this? These programmers are using chipmusic we love or getting our favourites composer to make music, in original format, for these games. Some of them are opening up for submissions so you should pay attention, if you compose in any of these platforms.

    Tracker Hero, for the classic Amiga range of computers and as of yet unreleased, shown here playing tracks from Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 and some demo productions.

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    Shredz64, for the C64, with a tune fromone of my faves, Randall: Ex-State of Mind. This one even interfaces with the original GH controller and is already available. You can even add your fave SIDs to the software!

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