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			<title><![CDATA[Re: 1-bit on the Vtech Laser210/310 and VZ200/VZ300 Z80 computers.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Very few posts of late, so adding a bit of random waffle. Starting to become like one of those silly personal blog type threads isn&#039;t it. </p><p>Did a bit of a demo thing for the VZ/Laser as a bit of a personal challenge.&nbsp; I really don&#039;t know what Im doing, but I certainly like to pretend.<br />Added Shiru&#039;s &quot;Lets Go&quot; with SquatM engine on to Mister Beeps &quot;The Night Dancer&quot; with its OctodeXL engine to play both tunes in a loop continuously. These two tunes are by far my personal all time favourites. Joined together they came out to around 27k but would fail due to not enough stack space for Octode when playing Night Dancer. Added Einar&#039;s ZX0 compression to the music data, managed to get the whole lo down to a 7960 bytes binary.&nbsp; Still requires around 20-24k ram to execute &amp; self decompress, but, now plays awesomely as it should.&nbsp; Started adding options to play through the cassette port and DAC-on-printer port --- that, no doubt, noone other than myself would ever use.</p><p>Keep thinking back 40+ years ago, to have had any of these 1bit engines back then would have been simply wild.&nbsp; The &#039;out standing&#039; music capability back then was pretty much :&nbsp; 0SOUNDRND(10),1:SOUNDRND(10)+21,1:GOTO0</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 03:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: 1-bit on the Vtech Laser210/310 and VZ200/VZ300 Z80 computers.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>I actually managed to do a thing.&nbsp; (demo of a Wolfenstein type engine, running on the VZ)</p><p>Lyndon&#039;s 91 player with Shiru&#039;s example demo tune for the menu&nbsp; &amp; credits, and a very short slapped-together (what-is-supposed-to-be) a snippet of the intro Wolfenstein tune, poorly done by myself.&nbsp; The video is taken off an emulator, and has since been proven to work as is on real VZ hardware. <br />The z80 Wolf engine code came from a TRS80 model 1 - the code is straight forward &amp; would be quite easy to port to any z80 computer.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c-gckJM84A">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c-gckJM84A</a></p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2024 22:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: 1-bit on the Vtech Laser210/310 and VZ200/VZ300 Z80 computers.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Performing random googles every now &amp; then and came across this old 2015 post :<br /><a href="https://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/16445/zx-spectrum-octode-xl-a-new-1bit-engine/">https://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/1644 … it-engine/</a><br />I really loved the sound of Night Dancer by Mister Beep, so, extracted the pattern &amp; music from the .SNA file, and here is a snippet of the near 4 minute OctodeXL tune running on the VZ/Laser.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/aQHO8xFO3pw">https://youtu.be/aQHO8xFO3pw</a></p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2024 03:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: 1-bit on the Vtech Laser210/310 and VZ200/VZ300 Z80 computers.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Somewhat useless update - no videos or recordings yet.<br />Have started integrating playing through internal peizo speaker as well as cassette port on a few of the engines now.</p><p>Also have been dabbling in playing the music through the VZ/Laser printer interface port connected directly to some amplified speakers. It is as dead-set so simple as changing the ZX&#039;s OUT($FE), A to the VZ&#039;s OUT($E), A which is in the range of the printer port being from 0 to $F. No idea why I actually chose $E though. It works.&nbsp; Connect Centronics pin 6 (D4) to amplified speakers and away we go.&nbsp; <br />Still fiddling with it; some of the engines that can output the full 256 bits to the port will make use of a 8-bit R2R resistor DAC, or down the track the use of a dedicated 8-bit DAC chip. (....but this is going 7 bits off-topic.)</p><p>Anyway, so far the printer port sounds pretty nifty on TRITONE, Phaser1, 2, and 3, PhaserX, SQUAT and SQUATM; a far nicer fuller sound than the very &quot;tinny&quot; sound of the internal speaker.<br />Have implemented an output device menu selection for a few of the engines/songs being : Speaker / Cassette Port / Printer Port.</p><p>I really wish that this existed back in the 1983 era!</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2023 01:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Hey, where&#039;d the rest of the post go? Don&#039;t worry about being off-topic, there&#039;s no rule against OT on 1-bit forum, hehe.<br />In any case, that sounds lovely.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2022 17:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>&gt;If you don&#039;t mind asking, whereabouts in AU are you based?<br />Not at all. About five hours drive north west of Sydney. Small country town, very fertile surrounding land, broadacre farming 100kms in all directions. Sheep &amp; cattle country.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2022 03:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Yesss, I love these shed videos! The thought that there&#039;s someone on the complete opposite side of the planet listening to 1-bit sounds in a shed out in the countryside is just fantastic. If you don&#039;t mind asking, whereabouts in AU are you based?</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2022 20:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: 1-bit on the Vtech Laser210/310 and VZ200/VZ300 Z80 computers.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Another shed video.&nbsp; &nbsp;Shiru&#039;s &quot;Lets Go&quot; - SquatM engine.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLj5PDpigEw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLj5PDpigEw</a></p><p>...I totally love this song and it&#039;s not hard to see why.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2022 11:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Very cool vid, enjoyed watching (and listening) to it <img src="http://randomflux.info/1bit/img/smilies/smile.png" width="15" height="15" alt="smile" /></p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2022 22:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Thanks, great to see the beeper love continue down under. Also, looks like you&#039;re living in a really nice place.</p><p>I think I can support the Vtech machines fairly easily in bintracker, btw. Not sure when I&#039;ll get around to it though.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2022 16:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
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			<link>http://randomflux.info/1bit/viewtopic.php?pid=2594#p2594</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p>Nice! More platforms to the 1-bit love. Having a simple tracker of sorts there would be nice, perhaps?</p><p>I can hear that Phaser1 tunes are missing the drums, is this part of the code wasn&#039;t ported?</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[null@example.com (Shiru)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2022 12:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Easter Friday. I did a thing in the shed. Please excuse the mess and the visual aspect - it is supposed to be all about the tunes!</p><p>I changed about 20 of the music players that work extremely well on the VZ to play out through its cassette port rather than the piezo speaker (cassette port is bits 2&amp;3 , instead of bits 0&amp;5). Phasers, Buzzkick, Betaphase, Squats, WTBEEP</p><p>This is a (rough) 9 minute video showing about ten songs of Utz&#039;s and Shiru&#039;s that work and sound terrific through the cassette port of a VZ300 computer. They sound so much better than the &quot;tinny&quot; sound of a piezo speaker that sits under the main board inside the keyboard.</p><p>Anyway, this is the VZ300 computer. Excuse the missing keys and whatnot - I only picked this particular keyboard up two weeks ago and haven&#039;t cleaned it up yet.</p><p>Much thanks to Shiru and Utz for their programming skills, their trackers &amp; players, their tunes, their knowledge and for getting me into this 1-bit stuff.<br />Six years ago not a single VZ/Laser computer enthusiast would have ever thought that this was conceivably possible, yet, here we are. I&#039;m really hoping to get a few more Laser/VZ fans enthused into 1-bit music over on our FB page, since they can now simply load in the music players via standard WAV file cassette loading, and then quickly swap over and plug in amplified speakers to listen to the resulting tunes.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/77N4k8kGTVM">https://youtu.be/77N4k8kGTVM</a></p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2022 22:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Wow, what a massive package. Thanks a lot for all your hard work!</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[null@example.com (utz)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2021 20:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
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			<link>http://randomflux.info/1bit/viewtopic.php?pid=2376#p2376</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p>I&#039;ve finally thrown up most of my working ports for the VZ from both Utz&#039;s, Shiru&#039;s and Oleg&#039;s incredibly-skilled programming engines, of which, I am always in awe of. There really is only a few lines of code to change to make these work for the VZ computer. Of course, timings are out when you change from &quot;OUT (C), A&quot; to &quot;LD ($6800), A&quot;, and I am always selecting one at random to try to improve the sound quality by tying to count cycles and improving the timings. But, at least they do work.</p><p><a href="https://github.com/bushy555/VZ200_VZ300___1-bit_tunes">https://github.com/bushy555/VZ200_VZ300___1-bit_tunes</a></p><p>&quot;.VZ&quot; is the VZ/Laser emulator snapshot file. These can also be converted into a WAV file, and loaded directly into a real computer.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2021 03:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Good work! But indeed I think you&#039;ve got a bug somewhere, sounds like several notes are missing to me.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2020 15:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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