Prototype test video of my new MIDIo Visual board firmware: “VidByter”
This is a new swappable firmware for my DIY MIDIo kit that works with Mac/Win/Linux to capture live video and send it over a USB/Serial cable where it is pushed directly onto the video ram space of a circa 1977 Chip8 RCA “Pixie Video” emulator. The Pixie hardware was found on the COSMAC VIP and several RCA based video “PONG” consoles such as the RCA STUDIO II.
Tag: VBLANK
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VidByter : New MIDIo firmware from VBLANK!
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Pocket VBLANK version 2 : ANSI MIDIo
The requests: Cheaper, DIY Kit Version Available, Upgradable, User Programmable
ANSI MIDIo: yes, yes, yessss & yes!
Oh, and not just programmable as in load-your-own-pic, instead the MIDIo will have real-time control and programming right from your midi software, controller, or (in my case) a Bliptronome!
What it is:
Kit or pre-built a bit smaller than a business card, and powered & controlled via USB, using the open-source KIT_MIDI driver already available here.
The input is midi from any midi software such as Renoise, Max-MSP or Abelton on OSX or Windows or an external controller patched through KIT_MIDI.
The Output will be NTSC or PAL (separate versions) and give a sweet 32×12 screen where the user can program one of 12 different ANSI Graphics characters in one of 16 different color combination. Yes, 16-color ANSI: as in that BBS you wasted time on in 1992.
Stand-by for more information.
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TCTD Interview with AY-Riders’ Yerzmyey pt2
This is part 2 of an interview with AY Rider, Yerzmyey. Please look here for part 1.
LB – I think my favorite release of yours was FREAKuencies on 8BP but I like Interphase on DWD a lot too. Which of your own releases do you like most and why?
Y – Actually I don’t like very much my own music. If You ask me about music, I simply prefer AY-RIDERS’ albums. It’s good to gather a bunch of various people to get various and diverse album(s). Then it gets much more interesting. As for myself, I mostly try to fight with the AY’s limitations. :) It’s damn hard to force it to generate some _interesting_ synthethesized sound. All we get is only square waves or some acid noises. In contrast to the Atari ST, we use only original hardware posibilities or AY/YM chip, so the work is harder. Anyway, if You want to listen to good ZX Spectrum music, then don’t listen to my crap but go quickly and download AY-RIDERS albums. :)
LB – What inspired you to start writing music? Was is a particular song or game or person?
Y – Hmmmmm. From the music side in general, probably it was electronic music. Marek Bilinski’s art creativity or KOTO’s stuff… Also Vangelis, Jarre, Kraftwerk… Hm. From the game-music side, it was ZX Spectrum stuff, like “Agent-X”, “Chronos” or “Raw Recruit”. Generally – all the incredible stuff from Tim Follin. We used to say that they’re NOT games with musix but – musix with some games attached :)musix with some games attached. And for demo-scene inspirations, surely it was Ziutek from ‘Ethanol Soft Inc’ group, as well as Hacker Kicia (with his demo songs for SoundTracker 1.1 ZX AY editor).demo-songs
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Ghost Links from the Outage
- RT @8bitRolf Designing an OPL3 Game Boy Cartridge, fuck yeah. That said, nobody will ever write the code it would need. Still, fuck yeah. #
- RT: @richvreeland: “Marco Tannenbaumgartner”, new NES-style tune for upcoming game on @chip_music. http://bit.ly/9gxeTT #
- RT: @enso_gfx: This is definitely one of my favorite pixelstyle posts in recent memory: http://bit.ly/biD6ZR #
- 8bit Betty – Mostly Dead Music: http://8bitbetty.bandcamp.com/album/mostly-dead-music #
- Frank Frazetta RIP: http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=7356 #
- Wired: 8-Bit Imagery Invades Music Videos http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/05/gallery-8bit-music-videos/ #
- UDA made it into the onion book: #
- Hey Chip Artists: Despite our name, we think its alright if you stop apologizing for a release not being ‘100% Chip”. #
- TCTD Proudly Accepts the Chipflip award for TCTDness 2010: http://chipflip.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/tctd-award-00101101/ #
- Are trackers used in mainstream music (yes they are) http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=7357&page=1&x=34&y=11 #
- “gravity in terms of space time” by Starscream fan video: #
- mGB Editor for Ableton Live http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/1108/mgb-editor-for-ableton-live/ #
- RT: @8bitpeoples: • New in the store: V/A: Continue. Save. Retry. comp. CD, Wizwars, Receptors, PDF Format, lots more. https://www.8bitpeoples.com/store/product/79 #
- ChipFlip: Why the Demoscene is big in Sweden: http://chipflip.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/why-the-demoscene-is-big-in-sweden-bit-for-bit/ #
- Spork? BitPunk? Movies? http://io9.com/5537572/spork-is-the-first-classic-bitpunk-movie #
- Here is the chipmusic-less trailer http://vimeo.com/11168011 #
- Family Twitter http://www.batslyadams.com/2010/05/family-twitter.html #
- RT: @plgDavid: The one page BASIC SID Benchmark! http://ploguechipsounds.blogspot.com/2010/05/one-page-basic-sid-benchmark.html #
- Sid Player for Android: http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/multimedia/sid-player_gowo.html #
- VBLANKS YM synth in Make: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/05/midi_kit_for_a_vintage_synth_chip.html #
- Superbrothers tribute to Frazetta: http://www.swordandsworcery.com/news/2010/5/10/frazetta.html #
- “Whats Ghettoblastin?” (by Prepare To Meet Thy Broom!) http://bit.ly/9AGcgW #
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YM_Mini USB Hardware Synth released!
The synth has 3 channels or square waves, a stereo noise channel, and a bizarre envelope generator for strange volume envelope effects. I’ve programmed it to work entirely via midi channels 1,2,3 & 10 (for noise), with the envelope and registers controlled via midi CCs. It has pitch-bend, and velocity control and uses a look-up table for fast pitch accuracy. So far tested to work on OS X and Windows with several software and hardware setups.