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Cheers utz, yeah I spent a few weeks on this one polishing. Still not happy with the simple drums so I might lower the bd value so not quite as prominent or add a few more zap infills.

I don't like to include too much percussion as I prefer the overall sound to be more electronic music than chiptune, if that's possible with a beeper tune.

There are a couple of notes that sound a bit off on real hw too but fine on emulator so I'll tweak those.

I will only release the real hw recording as I still remember mister beeps words of wisdom. I often think it's cheating releasing recordings from emulators.

Yeah I saw that comment about thinking it was being played on a Russian clone. Very odd

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Hi

I've just uploaded my new tune Spectronica (part 2) to youtube.

Written using Bintracker and utz's Pytha engine

https://youtu.be/VcFggBkCxtQ

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Hi Guys

I've uploaded a new version of my 1-bit Mechanistic album.
EQ'd slightly less harsh, title track elongated and 4 extra tracks.
All recorded from a 48k Speccy except the last 2 tracks which are recorded from a Spectrum Next (48k mode).

There's a new CD available too.

https://tufty1.bandcamp.com/album/1-bit … xe-edition

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Cheers guys.

Utz - the Tufty™ style ? lol

Next one will be a dark metal wtbeep track wink

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New spectrum game 'Superhair' just released with my beeper music.

Superhair vs Tron

I used phaser 3 as usual

https://youtu.be/JNvRmr8tvr4

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https://youtu.be/ehekJTLrRyk

Anyone seen this?

A much improved savage engine, cleaner with no clicks etc.

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https://df-design.itch.io/down-the-pipe

Game available to download now, including an mp3 of the 1-bit music

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Down The Pipe wacky new zx spectrum game released

Features 2 of my 1-bit tunes and available to buy on tape


https://youtu.be/b7LFbHZcpcg

https://www.phoenixware.co.uk/product/down-the-pipe/

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Hi utz

Just tried the aczidbox tune again. Amazing. Notice it doesn't respond to keypress ?
A friend has nearly finished his space shooter game and this would be a great intro tune if the keypress was enabled.

cheers

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Cheers Vinny.

Always great to enter the DiHalt beeper compo.

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The scores are in. Well done utz on the win. Great track. Liked your tracks too Shiru. Good number of entries for beeper.

https://events.retroscene.org/dh2021/beeper

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Amazing as always utz smile

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Just came across this on YT smile

https://youtu.be/S2huhsg6BcI

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Oh wow, love it utz.

A new beeper sound again smile

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Wow sounds great.

Could've done with this when I was writing some jingles for my new game recently. I ended up using a qchan game over jingle which took 720 bytes and a few huby jingles (a few hundred bytes each).

So will the file size be halved once channel 3 & 4 data is removed (plus the engine) ?

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Cheers, thought as much but I thought it sounded a little different than usual and was being played a note at a time with the scrolling message.

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https://furilloproductions.itch.io/rade … -episode-2

Anyone know the beeper engine used on this?

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Very impressive sound from the Pet. A friend of mine owns one that he found discarded in a skip a few years ago.

I've no idea what the text is talking about or who Mr Murray is but I enjoyed the music and great to hear beeper stuff on other platforms.

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Luca Bordoni has just released his new homebrew creation of the mythical ZX Spectrum game by ultimate.

He asked me to do some beeper music (intro and 3 jingles). I had very little memory so I decided to write something very basic mirroring the classic ultimate style. Single channel with implied bass. I used wham and had both channels playing the same notes.

I used Bach's prelude 2 as a starting point as Sabre Wulf used prelude 1.

Yt vid is here with download link at the bottom

https://youtu.be/Y90WJHqXXKE

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Cheers utz. Hehe, game on for DiHalt Lite smile

Winterchip first mate smile

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Hi Guys

I've just made a YT vid of my latest 1-bit tune '8Bit Wars' which is the title track for the new ZX Spectrum game by Luca Bordoni.

The game is a perk included the Kickstarter campaign for the 8Bit Wars Film which is coming out.

Written using phaser 3 and 1tracker as usual (I'm still loving this engine).



https://youtu.be/mQ3yPffJXM4

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Came across this today:

http://intenseofficial.blogspot.com/202 … .html#more

A 4 channel beeper engine that works in contended memory !!


Wow, exciting developments in 1-bit land atm smile

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Wow, just tried SquatE

This is brilliant, sound quality much improved. An exciting new development, thanks Shiru

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Go for it utz. Would be a brilliant feature for beeper tracks smile

Got me thinking, remember this track on BOTB ?

https://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry … %21/16668/

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Great thread, I've been interested in trying to add vocal samples to my beeper tunes for ages.
I'll check out the updated Squat engine.

Here's a couple of my tunes that I've managed to use vocal samples in Phaser 3, although these are interrupting.
https://youtu.be/pVvuPjC8W5Y
https://youtu.be/ap5hNtAVsG8

The most impressive example I've seen is Lman's C64 music
https://youtu.be/HnWntppFOuA

Jammer has done some amazing stuff too (samples again though)
https://multistylelabs.bandcamp.com/track/left-right

This Atari ST stuff got my interest too:
https://stumusic.bandcamp.com/album/3chnls4bit