51 Reply by orjis (edited by orjis 2025-10-21 23:36:24)

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Re: Welcome to the 1-Bit Forum (aka The Introduction Thread)

Hi people! I'm a general chiptune nerd, been looking into all this stuff the past 4-5 years now. I have many ideas, and not much coding skills, but some, and I might try to make my pc speaker beep with my own code at some point on dos, though I have no clue on how to get into that.

Other than that, I got a TI-82, been trying to make something with it. I'll get there eventually though. Mainly I make music in FamiTracker, occasionally LSDJ and I'm learning FM with AdlibTracker 2 and a OPL3.

If you want to take look or listen to my musical happenings, I post on youtube at youtube.com/@orjis. It has almost all of my work and more is to come. (I'm behind on uploads...)

here's PC Speaker song of mine https://youtu.be/F8Yo4QVe3rU?si=hTPNfsRK26J1-k2Q

I hope y'all have a good day! :3

I hope you have a great day! :3

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Re: Welcome to the 1-Bit Forum (aka The Introduction Thread)

Hi Orjis, sorry for the much belated welcome, but here it goes: Welcome aboard!

Making the PC Speaker beep with your own code is pretty easy on DOS - just get QBasic or TurboPascal and use the built-in sound commands (that's how I started back in the day, hehe). If you want to program it directly at machine level, then PC is actually a very difficult target, at least if you want to do anything funky like polyphony. In that case I'd recommend picking a less messy and less complex platform to start with. Arduino or anything AVR based in general is much easier to get started on.

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Hey, thanks for letting me know, I will try to at least get some beeps out of it. Polyphony isn't too important as of now.

The little bit i've used MONOTONE left a bit disapointed feeling, I haven't been able to get any nice drum sounds out of it. The effects are lacking and kinda slow. Maybe one day I'll have something better :3

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