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Arrgh, removing the border masking of course. I should've seen that.
How do you feel about border masking, from an aesthetic viewpoint? Over the years I've come to the conclusion that it is indeed quite unnecessary. In fact, almost every time I leave it out I get "nice border effects!" as a comment.

Interesting, thanks for clearing this up. Might explain why my attempts of contacting the guys behind this have failed so far I still wonder how those envelopes on the third/fourth screen are done though? Do they shift the volume on interrupts?

Regarding your Squeeker hack, well, I should probably say I absolutely love the sound of the original, there's something very special to it. Sorry, can't describe it better. Leaving that aside, your "like_original" version sounds quite nice to my ears. In the "like_octode_xl" version on the other hand, the mids are too metallic for my taste. But then again, as you know my taste is rather, eh, peculiar

Aww yes! Thanks a lot, introspec. I love the sound of this engine, and with your explanation, I can finally make a converter for the engine (though it'll probably have to wait till I come back from my traditional end-of-the-year album recording session, and provided Shiru doesn't beat me to it with a 1tracker plugin).

Judging by sound, I suspect Spectone-1 (http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0007879, the engine that can be heard eventually when leaving the menu screen with key A and going further on from there) might operate on a similar principle?

Yeah, I find that with pin pulse engines, you can usually get away with breaking most, if not all of the "rules".
That aside, please don't get me wrong - I don't doubt that observing this would lead to a major sound improvement. What I mean is that with the kind of >3 channel PuInt and especially wavetable synthesis, it's pretty much impossible to pull off the correct 8t alignments. Which shouldn't deter us from writing those kind of engines Nevertheless I'm looking forward to a potential "Savage Ultra"

Btw, if you find some time, could you write up something: The theoretical basis for writing a multi-channel routine for 16K Speccy. Been meaning to make one for ages, but I just can't wrap my head around it.

Yo lvd, thanks for the info! I'll try my best to make something, though I can't promise it atm. My schedule is packed until January and I don't have any unreleased material that's demoparty-worthy.

Welcome to the 1-bit forum! Great to have you aboard.

Very happy to hear those unreleased 1-bit tracks! The tracker conversions are excellent as well. I'm not much of a gamer myself, but I think some people would go nuts if World Shaker ZX was to be released one day. Seems the PC version was never widely distributed either?

Also, how did you compose the music back in the day, actually? Did you hard-code it all in asm?

Fixed some bugs in the quattropic XM converter. Also, as the C++ converter seems reasonably stable now, I've ditched the old Perl-based one entirely. Please re-download at https://github.com/utz82/ZX-Spectrum-1- … p?raw=true.

Hi 4ormal,

Thanks for your interest in HT2! As far as I know it's not possible to transfer stuff from PC via the soundcard, as there is no software which supports that. The best option would be to get a SilverLink (TI GraphLink USB) cable - despite what TI says, it works fine with the 82 (using TiLP for the transfer). With a bit of fiddeling, you might also get the (much cheaper) GrayLink USB to work.

Discovered this gem while researching historic 1-bit music for my timeline project:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6F7qwa5TZg

zx-pk.ru is down today, so be patient Not much to see there besides what's in the zip, just an additional mp3 recording.
The files in /examples/sna/osc7 beeper should work, the rest of the .sna files is for Covox sound add-on which fuse doesn't emulate.
The tap files are broken for me too, so I wonder what's up with those.

Works for me, yay! Except the sub-sites, but I suppose they simply aren't there yet?