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  1. Re:floppy drive motor by bdjacobson · · Score: 1 · on Jingle Bells Played With Graphics Card, Santa Wonders Why

    Check out Treewave; this guy uses a Commodore 64 and printer head moving back and forth to make his music.

    Sleep.mp3

    There's another song available free; also at treewave.com

  2. where have you been? by Paul+Slocum · · Score: 1 · on Software Distribution By Vinyl

    while Beige is awesome, this record came out several years ago. (and it's somewhat well known that there was software distributed by vinyl before that.) How about posting about some of their more recent stuff. ;o)

  3. Re:What about iRiver? by Paul+Slocum · · Score: 1 · on Digital Music Player Overview

    I only record music with my friends away from my home studio once in a while, and I got my HP140 since our last session so I haven't had a chance to record with it much at all yet, but from my research, other users are generally happy. The main problem is that it doesn't a level meter (lame!) so you gotta practice setting the input level a bit, but the Rockbox firmware will fix that when it's released.

    But hey, why not give it a quick test -- I got it sitting right here. Here's a 192k mp3 I was listening to on my work desktop with the line out going into my HP140's line in and recording at 256k. Not very scientific, but sounds pretty decent (a little Sufjan Stevens): sufjan_iriver.mp3 (1.5MB)

  4. Other Retro VG Music Stuff by Paul+Slocum · · Score: 1 · on Nanoloop: GameBoy Advance Hard Disk Recording

    Although Nanoloop 2 doesn't do what most people consider to be "hard disk recording", it's a cool sequencer, and the original Nanoloop for the old Gameboy was cool too. Here are some other related links:

    LSDJ, a powerful Gameboy tracker:
    http://www.littlesounddj.com/

    A NES Midi cartridge:
    http://www.wayfar.net/0xf00000_overview.php

    My own Atari 2600 Sequencer Kit:
    http://qotile.net/sequencer.html

    Prophet 64, a C64 sequencer/drum machine prog:
    http://www.prophet64.com/

    8BitPeoples, musicians into this kinda stuff:
    http://www.8bitpeoples.com/

    Micromusic, more musicians into this stuff:
    http://micromusic.net/office.php3

  5. Music and Documentary by ps_inkling · · Score: 1 · on 7 hour BBS Documentary Nearly Ready
    With the availability of personal computers powerful enough to do video editing, and digital cameras that are "good enough", expect to see more documentaries on many different niche subjects. The life cycle of the keyboard, design of the 74LS244 chip, the inventor of the 2.44MB floppy disc and why the market never adopted it. More documentaries is good; I would like to see more computer history recorded for future generations.

    At this point, however, it's comparable to documenting every contributor to steam engines and printing presses -- we don't know what's important and what's not to people fifty years in the future. Cisco routers use XModem and ZModem to transfer IOS images to the firmware -- seeing interviews with the people who designed the protocol helps me see their decision-making process at the time, and design better protocols today.

    Also, the music used in the documentary is composed by Paul Slocum, who uses an Atari 2600 along with dot-matrix printers and other assorted 80's computer hardware in the composition of his music. Band website and random interview, along with Atari 2600 programming for more information.

  6. Re:Why were there no analog joysticks? by ps_inkling · · Score: 1 · on Inside the Homebrew Atari 2600 Scene
    So THERE's a challenge for the modern 2600 hacker: build a game that uses an analog joystick! (for a REAL challenge, make it two-player!) Heck, I'd even be willing to build a joystick adapter for the programmer who did it! (and gave me a ROM cart of it.) (OK, that's setting myself up, I know.)
    Already done. Even has two-player mode.
  7. Re:Strong Bad by Paul+Slocum · · Score: 2, Informative · on Inside the Homebrew Atari 2600 Scene

    Still working on it. Should be out sometime this Summer.

  8. Re:Commodore? by Acidic_Diarrhea · · Score: 1, Troll · on Colecovision Drum Machine Cart Created
    Commodore 64 Cynthcart has been done. Here's the author's summary:

    "I've got a working cartridge image that plays filtered bass notes from keyboard keys (keys match up with the C64 piano keyboard overlay: Q,2,W,3,E,R..etc) Currently it's monophonic and only plays one bass sound, but it does sound pretty nice. It runs on the CCS64 emulator. In the emulator press ALT-C to select a cartridge image.

    I've also got it working as a cartridge on a real C64. I removed the chips from a Magic Desk I cartridge (thanks to Nicholas Coplin's hardware projects page) and installed a socket for an EPROM. See pictures below."

  9. Well, at least get some details on what it was.... by Jason+Scott · · Score: 5, Informative · on Pictures from Seattle's Classic Gaming Weekend

    Here is the official webpage of the Classic Gaming Weekend.
    This page seems to be working well, occasionally, even under the slashdotting.
    Here is an attendee's web page with some details of the work he did.
    And, of course, you should be aware of how many great people and groups there are out there keeping the memory alive with humor and aplomb, like these good friends.