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Post by hampshirebrony on Dec 12, 2012 6:51:47 GMT -5
At the Gala
MLP intro, extended
FiW intro, complete with the mating call of the wild Spectrum
Smile Smile Smile
Winter Wrap Up
Cruel and unusual punushment of a Speccy
The last one's not pony, but hopefully demonstrates why I've slowed down a little(!)
I have had some great ideas for some truly epic works, but I don't have enough working hardware to get it to work, and an emulator won't be suitable.
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Post by Power Chord on Dec 12, 2012 6:56:22 GMT -5
I love these. Over here it would sound like an Intellivision but then again I've only heard of a ZX Spectrum from guys like Guru Larry. Anyway, I love the simplicity of it all. The old-school gamer in me is pleased with these.
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Post by hampshirebrony on Dec 12, 2012 7:18:49 GMT -5
Looking at Wikipedia, I see that the Intellivision with ECS had an AY-3-8910 chip on it, which is the same chip that the Spectrum added in its 128k versions.
This may explain why they sound similar.
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Post by SaxyBrony on Dec 12, 2012 16:50:39 GMT -5
I enjoyed listening to these. ^.^ I never bothered with the ZX Spectrum because it seems like such a complicated system. So, are you using the actual system, or is that a program made to emulate the hardware?
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Post by Candy Coda on Dec 12, 2012 19:01:19 GMT -5
Looking at Wikipedia, I see that the Intellivision with ECS had an AY-3-8910 chip on it, which is the same chip that the Spectrum added in its 128k versions. This may explain why they sound similar. Interesting. I learned something today. Hampshirebrony, I said this before, but I'll say it again: I love your music. I'm looking forward to hearing what you make next. |
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Post by hampshirebrony on Dec 12, 2012 20:58:56 GMT -5
I'm using BASin to code in, since that allows me to use the PC keyboard with its layout, rather than the Spectrum keyboard layout.
BASin also has a built in pseudo emulator - it runs the code, but it's not doing full emulation.
I will either record the sound output from this, but this is not clean sound, and if Skype/MSN goes off in the background, that gets recorded too.
My prefered option is to save the code to a tape file, which BASin will do with its builtin tools, and then load that up in zx128k emu, which is an emulator with a built in video recorded and sound recorder.
I have played back the FiW video into a 3.5mm to cassette adapter and loaded it on to a physical Spectrum, and had it happily beep along after the loading section.
Usually though, I get hit with a tape loading error, since I'm using an adapter I paid about £1.60 for, including postage.
I might put up a video of me making one of these, though I can't stand hearing my own voice.
Edit:
Teslahead's latest offering.
Stuck it up as 120 bpm as a random guess, it's almost 3 am, there's a lot of "I can't be bothered" in this one.
Also, I got bored recording it.
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Post by hampshirebrony on Dec 23, 2012 19:32:38 GMT -5
Did this one AGES back, either my 2nd or 3rd one. Saved it for now.
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Post by hampshirebrony on Dec 30, 2012 8:38:57 GMT -5
;D
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Post by SaxyBrony on Dec 30, 2012 10:16:07 GMT -5
That Spectrum mating call... My God it reminds me of the days when we used dial-up.
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Post by hampshirebrony on Dec 30, 2012 10:42:54 GMT -5
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Post by hampshirebrony on Feb 4, 2013 3:53:25 GMT -5
Racist Barn
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Kudos
Junior Pony
Violinist-In-Training
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Post by Kudos on Feb 7, 2013 5:28:33 GMT -5
It's simply too neat that you guys know how to do all this. I am most envious :S
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Post by hampshirebrony on Mar 15, 2013 16:09:03 GMT -5
It's not pony, but the video contains Octavia.
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Post by hampshirebrony on Apr 22, 2013 7:45:38 GMT -5
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Post by hampshirebrony on Apr 24, 2013 4:25:21 GMT -5
I'm on a roll!
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