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preservation / emulation / speech synthesis / chiptunes / synthesizers / reverse engineering
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@hiyodori5 What sort of curve tracer design are you using? Are the schematics and/or plans for it available?

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@StoodUpOtomo I never received any compensation nor even an apology. (3/3)

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@StoodUpOtomo Disclaimer: I'm not the sole programmer of Snes9x, I'm just one of the contributors, but Piko did include some code I'd written for Snes9x without asking or properly getting any license clearance. (1/x)

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@StoodUpOtomo Later, Piko removed my specific code (and other expansion chip code not being used by Bubsy) but left the rest of the Snes9x code (still violating the license), and later yet they seem to have replaced Snes9x with a another SNES emu, presumably under proper license. (2/x)

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They've also stolen the software for Snes9x, for their Bubsy Two Fur release, with zero consent or contact from the programmer:

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@RetroismGames @seven5three @Pikointeractive They certainly didn't contact me.

[Editor-in-Chimp @NewsFedora]

Wonderful tribute to Near in the latest sd2snes firmware. Near had been looking forward to this release as it fixed a very strange bug that was uncovered thanks to their Bahamut Lagoon translation.

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@Foone Perhaps it gets classified as Keter after a foundation experiment in introducing signs in various typefaces goes horribly awry: "The Helvetica Scenario"

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@joefulgham I dug up an original copy I saved back in 2012, if you want the file itself not from https://t.co/NTnPkbb7uL, btw.

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@joefulgham Is your old old gamma world 4e character generator still up somewhere? The old url seems long dead. The javascript still seems to work, even on the internet archive version, but is there a live version somewhere?

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@textfiles I'm not 100% sure of the correct origin for the quote, but the oldest place I've found this quote so far is from https://t.co/DoelyeEgAd

[🎩 MaestroSanD @MaestroSanD]

Si algo me ha enseñado el Tetris es que los errores siempre se acumulan y los triunfos desaparecen.

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@textfiles Those design documents for the first HP laser printer (presumably the HP LaserJet, I'm guessing the built-in fonts and not the PostScript cart), I had assumed all documentation for that was destroyed in the HP Archives fire. That's an amazing find, I'd LOVE to see those scanned!

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This could be done for envelopes or LFO too, and could in theory act as a sort of crude waveform compression, in theory... Its an odd idea. Maybe it would work?

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I'm looking forward to the 'superformula' patent expiring on 20200509, I think it might make an interesting audio synth core, especially if combining multiple waves (at various frequency ratios) together additively or multiplying, a bit similar to James A. Moorer's DSF synthesis.

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Another cool idea is to use a spectrum based 'constraint' and randomly generate superformulae until you find one that meets that constraint, then add or multiply a bunch of these together to "shape" a waveform spectrally or even just the wave hull itself.

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@Foone Interleave the roms as 100078-003 even, 100078-004 odd, then open the result in binxelview, set bpp to 1, width to 2048, height to 16. its an 8x16 codepage 437 font, and I've never seen it before personally.

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@PikoInteractive If you switched to using snes9x 1.39 and have permission from both Gary and Jerremy, you'd be good, but as-is you're not.

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@Pikointeractive The 'revised' bubsy two-fer release did remove the DSP-1/2/3/4 and Superfx code, but is still based on snes9x 1.43

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@Pikointeractive The 'revised' release still uses snes9x 1.43 code in it (JMA, movies, cheats, etc) which is not properly licensed for use.

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@seven5three I've been told its derived from snes9x version 1.43