51

(9 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Oh wow !

Utterley amazing. Don't think I've heard another beeper engine sound like this !
Wasn't expecting a new engine at all

Congrats utz

52

(10 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Hi guys

Came across this tune on YT which it says uses the 'quad tone' engine.

https://youtu.be/hZtP6VBQIXs?si=xeBR8OXDCJQD51aU


I've not heard of this. Is it a real ZX Beeper engine that can be played on real hardware or one of these ones from packages like furnace tracker?


Good composition

53

(138 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Some great 1-bit Beeper tracks as always

Congrats to AER on the win


[ ZX Spectrum Beeper Music ]

1.   6.76   Veselaya by AER
2.   6.65   LA-5 by AER
3.   6.03   Beep Machine by Tufty ^ 1bit Forum
4.   5.91   Into the Black by Tufty ^ 1bit Forum
5.   5.68   from the woods by utz ^ irrlicht project


https://events.retroscene.org/dh2024/beeper

54

(4 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Sounds good smile

55

(4 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Hi xxl

I've emailed you the source .bbsong file

cheers

56

(4 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Happy Christmas everyone

Here are some Christmas Beeps:


https://youtu.be/TRqmTRXSxdk?si=aQe4rT8d63WvPgtE


https://youtu.be/30-O3nnxBRk?si=mwXa8FYbengmB1QG

57

(4 replies, posted in Other Platforms)

Wow, massive list there.

Started listening to some of them.
Sounds like a few spectrum-like engines in there - Predator 2 for instance


I did a few PC Speaker tunes myself which actually got me into writing speccy 1-bit music

https://tufty1.bandcamp.com/track/bonus … pc-speaker
This was recorded from dosbox and written using monotone on an old Toshiba laptop

I've written a few more PC speaker tunes but never recorded them

58

(3 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Recording from real hardware now on streaming platforms and my bandcamp site:

https://tufty1.bandcamp.com/

Recorded from a real 48K Spectrum as always

59

(138 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Cheers Vinnny. Always a good motivator for me to compose new 1-bit tracks

60

(16 replies, posted in Other Platforms)

Wow really impressive. Sounds great

61

(0 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Nothing new tune-wise but I've packaged the tunes from my Raw Spectronica album into a .TAP format and added some art.

It's here:
https://df-design.itch.io/raw-spectronica

This is great

63

(5 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Hmmm, yeah, I thought it was maybe a bit too good to be true smile

Seem to be a few 'Spectrum' tunes made with Furnace on YT too. Will be good if they do manage to export files that can be played on real hw to authenticate the tunes.

64

(5 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Have you guys seen this?

Brilliant version for the PET

https://youtu.be/n1TeOIhWPuQ?si=trYgsnXUjT2oKw5X

Don't know what engine/software was used to create it.

Be great to hear it playing on a real PET

65

(3 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Thanks guys.

Yeah it was the manic water recent demo that prompted my post

66

(3 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Just wondered if anyone knew of a utility/converter doc to create loading music (written to screen ram) ?

I’ve seen examples of it with the Star Wars imperial March and I think utz included a couple of bonus tracks done in this way on his dat fuzz cd

Cheers

67

(166 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Brilliant. Thanks Shiru

68

(166 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Many thanks Shiru.

I've managed to compile a sampletracker .tap now which plays great. I'm very excited about writing a tune with this engine.
It doesn't exit to basic though on pressing a key. Seems to get stuck in a loop ?

69

(166 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Hi Shiru. Just tried to compile a .tap of the new sampletracker example but it crashes when trying to play back.

The .tap includes a file 40448 bytes in size with a start address of 32768 so I  assume this is the issue unless it uses contended memory ?

70

(166 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Wow, this is a really exciting development.

Thanks Shiru, can't wait to have a go with it

71

(9 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Made a little vid of utz's amazing pindsvin engine demo tune

https://youtu.be/ELaIK6s4DDc

72

(166 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Thanks a lot Shiru

73

(10 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Hi Shiru

Just noticed there seems to be a bit of an issue with 128K machines on emulators.

On FUSE - +2a/+3 won't play the album - sticks after intro screen
Spectaculator - Toastrack/grey+2/+2a/+3 - sticks after intro screen on all these models

Not tried on real HW yet

74

(10 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Wow !

Absolutely brilliant. Some of the tunes sound like nothing I've heard on the speccy before !

My favourites are Adventure Time and Balls of Steel

75

(10 replies, posted in Sinclair)

Great news. Look forward to having a listen tonight when home from work.