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(2 replies, posted in Sinclair)

I'll post in this thread my new stuff.

This time it won't be one of my composition, but a cover of the excellent mk7's song "Sunflowers", with the tritone engine:
http://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/mk7's+Sunflowers/21605/

I made a little track (a cover of one of my famitracker song) there:
http://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/garvalf's+The+lonely+Cowgirl+%28now+with+Houston%29/21581/

http://battleofthebits.org/player/Preview/21582/BotB%2021582%20garvalf%20-%20Tracking%20in%20the%20fields.png

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(135 replies, posted in Sinclair)

it sounds great... it seems the is no limit to your talent and creativity!

I've seen a TI92 on a garage sale, but I found the price too high and I wasn't sure it would work. Now I regret it wink

Anyway, it's a cool song, like it makes me wish to hire you in my Metal band...

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(7 replies, posted in Other Platforms)

really, I thought it was an april fools' joke... (in France we joke around the fishes, hence my reply on chipmusic.org about the "current" and "hook"). Well done.

Thanks a lot, both of you. I got also the ST version on this forum:
http://atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f= … p;p=240830

I managed to import one of my midi files into the Amiga version of Deluxe Music Construction Set, then export it to IFF Smus format, so I could re-import into the Atari ST version. But I'm a bit disappointed because the sound isn't that good, I hoped to be able to modify more parameters for the instruments (and also on Atari the timing isn't very precise it seems)

Btw I'm looking for Will Harvey's Music Construction Set for Apple II, and also for Atari ST and C64, I couldn't find it (only the DOS version)... Do someone here have it?

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(10 replies, posted in Sinclair)

They could have used a similar video cable used on Raspberry pi 2 and C.H.I.P. (3.5 jack with 3 channels, 2 for audio, 1 for video, with output to RCA).
Maybe they'll rethink the board from they users feedback.

I didn't know the Spectrum 128 hadn't stereo for AY. But it seems the AY interfaces for ZX 48 were popular after that. On Amstrad CPC it seems it was stereo from the start.

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(10 replies, posted in Sinclair)

I've seen the molex word in their description, but wasn't sure it was really this. A quick search on "molex vga adapter" didn't reveal much informations so I assumed it wasn't very practical to use.

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(10 replies, posted in Sinclair)

There is indeed an RGB / VGA output (the white thing close to the ear output), but I don't know how to connect it to a vga screen.

They wanted to keep the same size factor and make it fit inside a raspberry pi box (but which version, I think it's the v1 B+ version), maybe it would have been more reasonable to make a proper vga output. On the other hand, maybe many people will use it on a tv (like the raspberry pi) so it was maybe more useful to have RCA rather than VGA.

There isn't that much difference, but I find the sound softer, and so it sounds a bit less choppy so I prefer this version.

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(16 replies, posted in Atari)

It sounds great! Well done.

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(10 replies, posted in Sinclair)

The FPGA zx uno is now available on kickstarter : http://www.verkami.com/projects/14074-zx-uno

75 € shipping included. Quite more than I expected. As I already have the MiST which have now a pretty good AY and beeper support, I won't buy one ZX Uno. But it's pretty cool anyway (raspberry pi size). No USB support thought (ps2 keyboard), and no VGA port (you'll need an adapter or use the video RCA output)
Should be great for hacking (ULAPlus support)

Already 10000 € fund, in 4 h.

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(16 replies, posted in Atari)

In my youth, I wanted so bad to get such a tiny computer... for hacking banks like in Terminator and making 1-bit music smile (I saw the movie later though, I've heard on the portfolio in some Atari Magazines). A friend of mine got one, his father was a doctor and some lab gave a portfolio to him as incentive.

I guess you can build those AVR synth (hope the code is still functional). It's very cool.

Vega should be ok too, but they are not that cheap. The sounds seems to be great:
https://soundcloud.com/mister_beep/mist … ii-zx-vega

There are also other zx clone, such as the ZX Uno (should be cheaper than vega, and with more possibilities)

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(130 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Multimatograf 2016:
http://events.retroscene.org/mf2016_rules_main_en.html
"This compo accepts music for such sound chips as AY/YM, Pokey, SID, as well as one-bit digital modules for ZX Spectrum's beeper."

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(2 replies, posted in Sinclair)

some are really good. The first one (Wild Archer) sounds like it was made with rawp... (edit: it was made with yawp, in fact it reminds me of rawp on the TI)

> what equipment I need to make 1bit tunes with a zx spectrum

only a zx spectrum, as 1-bit music is made from the beeper. You can convert your .tap files to waveforms and send the data to the zx through a monophonic jack cable so it can load the music.

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(4 replies, posted in Sinclair)

That's amazing! Another inspiring engine... thanks a lot.

they're still working on the topic! (they ported quattropic to the thomson and used a midi 2 quattropic converter)
http://www.logicielsmoto.com/phpBB/view … =532#p4527

wow, thank you guys!
I don't know how the algorithm  because some other songs have the same note as my tune (5, 5, 4) and they are at a lower rank. Maybe it's random at the moment because there aren't enough notations.

btw do you know how to submit music to http://zxtunes.com/ ?

Awesome tune!
And congratulations for improving this tracker!

moroz1999 wrote:

I hope that one day ZX-Art will become an everyday tool for beeper musicians.

hello, I consider ZX-Art as a very valuable place for everyone enjoying pictures and music. It's easy to upload tunes (and pictures), browse and play them, the interface is great and clean. I don't have idea to improve ZX-Art, I think it's already perfect.

One question, I don't really under the rating, why this work http://zxart.ee/eng/authors/t/tim-follin/agentx/  which as only 5, has a rating of 4,14? Is it because there is a starting value before the first vote?

I'm in the process to submit my beeper and ay tunes on it!

Maybe one day "Vapeurs d'alcool" will enter the TOP100, who knows? wink

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(10 replies, posted in General Discussion)

it seems http://irrlichtproject.de/ is down at the moment...
The files should be at http://irrlichtproject.de/1bitcompo

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(65 replies, posted in Sinclair)

I wonder if he didn't recorded the vg5000 from the ambient sound in the room, instead of from the line out. It sounds like recorded "live".