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roeniss
Roeniss
Sun 1-Dec-2024 03:40

So intuitive figures. Thanks a lot. Until now, I thought that I wrote characters into kernel 'via' bash.

Anonymous
Mon 2-Dec-2024 21:08

I read this article in Vivaldi's distraction free Reading Mode and I can't understand what the article is about. Should there be colors in this article... no thanks, man!

toivoh
Toivo Henningsson
Fri 6-Dec-2024 11:29

Nice tune! (as usual)
I tried to post this comment to one of your youtube videos, but it seems that youtube ate it up. I still hope that it is relevant to you, concerning interesting ways to make even more hardware chiptunes.

Have you looked at tinytapeout.com? You can submit a logic design, and then (after some time) you get it back on a silicon chip. You're quite limited in what you can do with such a the tiny area, but that's the challenge!
I've made three synths using Tiny Tapeout: One monophonic (but it turns out that I can play duophonic music on it), one 4-channel as part of a retro console (using external RAM), and one as part of my contribution to the Tiny Tapeout 8 demo competition (synth + song + graphics all hardcoded in one design). To give an example of the limitations, the demo uses c:a 300 flipflops, that is all the memory of any kind that I could fit. All graphics have to be calculated while racing the beam because there is no space for a frame buffer. All the designs are purely digital.

If you're interested, I written about how they work:
- Monosynth with two oscillators and a 2nd order resonant low pass filter: https://github.com/toivoh/tt05-synth/blob/main/README.md (demo tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed3JROdFSls)
- Retro console with 4-voice synth (evolution of the monosynth with some major new tricks): https://github.com/toivoh/tt06-retro-console/blob/main/docs/info.md
- "Sequential Shadows", for the Tiny Tapeout 8 demo competition: https://github.com/toivoh/tt08-demo/blob/main/docs/info.md (not as detailed), video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkiTu3iLA_U The tune is admittedly a bit simplistic, in part due to space (it had to fit together with the graphics and the synth) and time constraints.

Anonymous
Tue 17-Dec-2024 20:33

I found this article back in 2010. I am back here today reviewing my knowledge.
After all these years, this is still the absolute best thing on the internet regarding that topic.
I cannot thank you enough. Amazing job!

Anonymous
Fri 20-Dec-2024 18:25

this tool helped me find a long lost SID tune from an old game I remember playing. thanks for creating this! I don't know how recently this has been updated, but it'd be great if you could update this to the latest HVSC revision at least.