Category: Platforms

  • Quickdev16 SNES dev cart appeared

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    I’ve said it before, but I am not that big of a fan of SPC. That being said, it would be cool to see what people can cook-up with this.

    Quickdev16 is a developer cartridge for the Super Nintendo and it can be used to upload homebrew roms to the console. You can upload rom images tup to the size of 16Mbit. Currently NTSC and PAL SNES consoles are supported by using a dedicated CIC chip on the Quickdev16 cartridge. Homebrew roms and games that depend on the save game feature or that use DSP chips are not supported by this release. You can connect the cartridge via usb to your computer and upload roms with a command line tool. Currently Linux,OS X and Windows software builds are available.

    Important Note: If you don’t know how to use the comandline and just interested in runing games on your Super Nintendo, this isn’t the right project for you. This is a developer tool and not a plug and play solution.

    Features:

    • * 16 MBit SRAM for ROM storage
    • * ATmega644 MCU for housekeeping
    • * USB connection for ROM upload
    • * ucon64 software compatibel
    • * PAL/NTSC CICs are supported
    • * Lo/Hi ROM support
    • * Reset trigger and sniffer from cartridge possible
    • * AVR USB Bootloader for quick firmware updates
    • * Snes bootloader intro

    Home | quickdev16 | Assembla.

    Via hacakday.

  • TonesynthDS

    This DS homebrew app seems like a kds10/elektroplankton/piggy kinda blend with osc based samples. The demo video certainly looks nice!

    NDS Composer Applications.

  • Goto80 – Breakfast

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    Breakfast is a power tune that brings back frenetic old school funky lines and a powerful synth solo. When we first heard the single, what struck us immediately was the clever usage of the Amiga speech synthesis, layers of digital speech that rendered beautiful voice-harmonies like we never heard before. As usual, he used rather crude methods for this, like turning a statement into a question for a different tonality.

    via BLEEPSTREET Records

  • Nagz Presents BEST 100 DEMOSCENE SMALLTUNES

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    Nagz presents this 100 artist demoscene comp/mix/science droppage. Make it the first thing you listen to today.

    BEST 100 DEMOSCENE SMALLTUNES.

  • PetSynth appeared

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    Lest you think we’ve gotten soft with our chipsounds coverage, there is awesome news of a new peformance synth for Commodore Pet computers.

    It’s author writes:

    I’ve been sitting on this for a year, and I decided that it was finally time to unleash this puppy upon the world!

    It features a two-octave keyboard layout, selectable note length, many selectable octaves, selectable pulse-width, vibrato, distortion, and noise or “drum mode” depending on how you use it.

    All this without adding or hacking the Commodore PET in any way. Plus, it’s compiling from C, so it’s FAST – with very low latency.

    This computer does not use a SID 6581 music chip at all! This program was designed, tested, and refined on a real life fully working stock Commodore PET 4032 computer, and the sound is heard coming out of the built-in piezoelectric on the PET 4032 . It does not involve hacking the computer in any way, or adding any extra sound cards. It does not involve taking sound from the tape port. It also does not implement a DAC to create sounds.

    [audio:http://truechiptilldeath.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/petsynth_demo_1.mp3]

    via PetSynth