Yes, that's indeed the point. Well, one of them at least 
976 2015-07-12 13:04:29
Re: plans for a 1-bit forum contest (16 replies, posted in General Discussion)
977 2015-07-12 12:08:49
Re: found on the web (1 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Yes, Jredd rulez. Even though this one is a bit too much on the happy side for me
978 2015-07-12 12:07:58
Re: plans for a 1-bit forum contest (16 replies, posted in General Discussion)
So I take it we'll have at least 3 entries for the 1K category? Alright then, I'll add it to the compo!
979 2015-07-10 10:57:57
Re: plans for a 1-bit forum contest (16 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I don't know if having several categories would be successful, but I'd like to give it a try I'd give a rather generous deadline, so people have enough time to dig a bit into the non-Spectrum tools.
Was even thinking about adding another category for 1K size limited tunes, so the "tiny" engines like Huby and ntropic get some love. Though that might indeed be overkill...
980 2015-07-07 22:45:20
Re: 1bit web radio (10 replies, posted in Sinclair)
Cool! And I should do some more conversions as well. I just never get around to it, my life is mostly code, eat, sleep, repeat these days.
981 2015-07-07 22:43:16
Re: testing some new tricks... (7 replies, posted in Sinclair)
@Shiru, I'd say yours is less noisy at low volumes, though still more noisy than I expected. I'm also surprised that the timbre changes just as much as with the phase shifting approach. Seems with the right ratios, some very interesting timbre effects can be created.
@AtariTufty: I'd love to put it in ntropic, along with proper 16-bit frequency counters. However in order to do so I'd need to build a few new registers into the Z80... So it'll probably really just become a new engine eventually.
982 2015-07-07 11:19:46
Topic: plans for a 1-bit forum contest (16 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Yeah, it's about time and I'm intending to launch it shortly, but before I do that I'd like to hear if you folks have any special requests/ideas for it.
My idea is to have 3 categories - Speccy+GTIA (think it makes sense to combine it into one category due to similarities in sound), Alternative Platforms (bascially anything that is not Speccy or Atari 8bit), and Code (aka write a new 1-bit engine). Well, that's the plan so far. What do you folks think? Considering Shiru's recent release, maybe we should add a "fake1bit" category as well?
983 2015-07-07 11:03:44
Re: testing some new tricks... (7 replies, posted in Sinclair)
@garvalf: It's an entirely new engine. Or rather, it will be eventually, as it still needs quite a bit of improvement and I don't really have the time to work on it these days.
@Shiru: Hehe no, this is quite different. Imagine you have two output states per channel. Now, if you inverse the phases of those outputs, you will hear - nothing. Which is logical, because one of the outputs will always be low and the other will always be high, so in combination the output state for that channel doesn't change. Well, I guess you can already deduce where this is going Shift the phase for one of the ouputs (ie start counting not at 0, but at #4000 or whatever) and voila. It also works with duty cycles other than 50:50, though then volume control gets more limited.
Overall I think the method you propose might be better sounding, but I somehow like this little trick
984 2015-07-06 20:30:16
Topic: testing some new tricks... (7 replies, posted in Sinclair)
Trying to tackle the good old "volume control" problem. Think I might have found something...
985 2015-07-06 09:20:06
Re: upcoming beeper compos (135 replies, posted in Sinclair)
Now now, 2nd place, not bad Congratz!
986 2015-07-02 16:13:45
Re: Dat Fuzz - Character set (3 replies, posted in Sinclair)
Iirc it might have been based on Skyscrap, but if so it's a heavily modified version. That .FZX is probably one big mess though.
987 2015-07-02 16:06:11
Re: 1bitstudio - a bundle of VST plugins (27 replies, posted in Other Platforms)
Whoa, that was unexpected. Well, I stopped using VSTs many years ago and I don't even have a host installed anymore, but I still think it's a neat idea. Looking forward to hear some sound examples made with it.
988 2015-07-01 15:59:02
Re: 1-bit music on GameBoy (7 replies, posted in Other Platforms)
Isn't there also a maximum to how fast the sound registers can be updated? I have it somewhere in the back of my head that access was quite slow.
As for beeper engines on the thing, I think the closest there is is still nitro2k1's "mystery rom", which uses the battery save function to flip the output state.
989 2015-07-01 15:50:07
Re: upcoming beeper compos (135 replies, posted in Sinclair)
Yeah, there were beeper tunes submitted to that one in the past, so that should be possible
990 2015-06-30 22:24:32
Re: upcoming beeper compos (135 replies, posted in Sinclair)
To quote the boss:
puke7 wrote:
You can use any format for any year. Try to earn a badge!
I think that means you can do all beeper if you're so inclined. Thinking of also doing a few YM2149s myself, though.
991 2015-06-30 22:17:55
Topic: List of calculator engines (0 replies, posted in Calculators & Pocket Computers)
Below you will find a list of multi-channel 1-bit sound routines available for various calculators. If you know of any other, please post them below.
Texas Instruments Z80
AudaciTI by Hayleia
- TI-83+/84+
- 4 channels
- OR/AND sound
- basic on-calc editor available
download
Editor is not quite finished and can't create new songs yet. To take full advantage of the routine you must manually write song data into an 8xv appvar. Documentation on the file format is here (in the spoiler).
CalcMod 2.2 by Paul Marks and Dhordain Florent
- TI-83+/84+
- 2 channels
- square wave sound
download, manual
HoustonTracker by utz
- TI-73/82/83/83+/84+
- 3 engines in one on-calc editor
- 2-4 channels, PFM (pin pulse) and pulse-interleaving (square wave) sound
- has been discontinued because of critical bugs (especially on 83+/84+) and bad interface. You might still be able to squeeze a tune out of it though.
download
QuadPlayer by Ben Ryves
- TI-83+/84+
- 4 channels
- pulse-interleaving (square wave) sound
download
mobileTunes 3.2, a QuadPlay player by KermMartian
rawp-ti by utz
- TI-82/83/83+/84+
- 2 channels + interrupting hihat
- 13 different instruments, limited volume control
download
TI 1-bit pack by utz
- TI-82/83
- build Huby, LSEngine, The Music Studio, Octode, Qchan, Wham!, and ZX10 tracks from music.asm source
download
Sharp PC-1403(H)
Osaka 2 by utz
- 2 channels + interrupting click drums
- pulse-interleaving (square wave) sound
download (includes XM converter)
992 2015-06-30 20:34:50
Topic: upcoming beeper compos (135 replies, posted in Sinclair)
It's summertime, and as usual it means there are several chances to submit your beeper works at competitions.
DiHalt - July 4th-5th
rules (general), rules (zx)
ChaosConstructions - August 29th-30th
website (rules not published yet, but will most likely be the same as on DiHalt)
DotB's Decadent Decade - till September 5th or so
Not exactly a beeper compo, but there's nothing stopping you to submit up to 10 beeper covers of BotB tunes
rules
Also, there'll be a big fat compo happening here at the forum very soon. Stay tuned
993 2015-06-30 16:49:53
Re: We're back! (8 replies, posted in General Discussion)
The database might still be on Yerzmyey's server, for all I know. However, for the time being the chances of retrieving it are... not so good.
994 2015-06-30 09:22:25
Re: colorbepp 2 (5 replies, posted in Sinclair)
Uh... at the end I didn't even know myself anymore what is going on in this mess of code. Mind you most of it was written at the party 
The basic trick is that it's using a pentatonic scale. So the output will sound more or less harmonic regardless of the combination of tones.
995 2015-06-29 23:47:07
Topic: ViTracker for Apogey (1 replies, posted in Other Platforms)
I'm curious what happened to Kakos_nonos' ViTracker for the Apogey BK-01. Latest build I could find was this one, from February 17th. Are there any newer ones? Perhaps someone could redirect Kakos_nonos here?
996 2015-06-29 23:26:40
Topic: List of Atari GTIA engines and converters (1 replies, posted in Atari)
Below you can find a list of all available 1-bit routines for Atari 8-bit computers and their GTIA chip. There are currently no native engines for this platform. All the available ones were originally developed for the ZX Spectrum beeper, and were ported to Atari by XXL. For tutorials on usage, refer to the ZX beeper list.
LSengine by Lyndon Sharp
- 2 tone channels + non-interrupting sample drums
- custom synthesis
XM converter
Octode by Shiru
- 8 tone channels + interrupting click drums
- pulse-frequency modulated (pin pulse) sound
XM converter
Qchan by Shiru
- 4 tone channels + interrupting click drums
- pulse-frequency modulated (pin pulse) sound, volume control, envelopes
XM converter
Tritone by Shiru
- 3 tone channels + interrupting click drums
- pulse-interleaving (square wave) sound, variable pulse-width
XM converter
XXL has also ported several other engines including Music Studio, Octode XL, Phaser1, ZX-7, and ZX-10, but there are currently no converters available for these.
997 2015-06-29 19:33:47
Topic: colorbepp 2 (5 replies, posted in Sinclair)
Oh this horrible emptyness... better fill up the board with some useless crap 
So, here's a little 128 byte beeper demo I made for Outline a few weeks ago. Basically what it does is play back the Spectrum's ROM as a 3-channel beeper tune, and also produce some glitch visuals on the side. Unsurprisingly, it couldn't really compete with the all the mindblowing stuff that other people made for the compo. But considering it was my first 128 byte prod, I'm nontheless proud of it
998 2015-06-29 18:09:49
Topic: Call for Action: Design a new forum header background (41 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I think we need a new forum header background... Would anyone of you honoured members be willing to design one?
Optimally it would be lightweight in terms of file size, and would tile (so it doesn't look crap on mobile devices.
Also I was wondering if we should officially expand the forum's scope to include 1-bit art and design. Black and white pixel stuff, basically. Not that I know of any people who actively produce this kind of stuff, but it would great to have some fitting visuals to complement the music, no? What do you folks think? We'd probably need to set a few examples ourselves for people to follow suit, though...
999 2015-06-29 10:29:33
Topic: We're back! (8 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Yay, the 1-bit Forum is back! A big round of applause for d0x10 for providing the server space, and installing the board system, please.
1,000 2015-06-28 12:16:07
Topic: Welcome to the 1-Bit Forum (aka The Introduction Thread) (49 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Welcome aboard the 1-Bit Forum, great to have you here! Please make yourself at home, and if you like, please introduce yourself in this thread 
So, for a start... I'm utz I make 1-bit music (surprise surprise) and I've also coded a few sound routines. Also I run Ancient Wonderworld, a blog about oldschool computer art - see the links in my signature.