MrKsoft

I do things with technology and stuff. Yes, that is very descriptive.
Account is inactive. Find me on the Fediverse or BlueSky.

[MrKsoft @MrKsoft486]

Yeah it's official I think I'm done with this place, for reasons.
Here are two other, better places to find me.
Account will be kept online because I don't like link rot.

[MrKsoft @MrKsoft486]

I can be found on Mastodon (@ mrksoft @ bitbang dot social) and BlueSky (@ mrksoft dot bsky dot social)

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Btw, given how ridiculously stupid Twitter is now, I'm somewhat sunsetting posts on this account. I think I'll just be posting major announcements and releases here.
My posts are effectively invisible here due to not "paying to play" anyway.

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How about a new Commodore 64 #chiptune cover to spice up your Halloween?

Here's "Dracula's Tears", from the Wizardry Lab area in #Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow. Now squeezed down to a mere 3 channels of SID goodness!

https://t.co/t4HuqrxIVi

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This iBook somehow came with a practically brand new battery in 2024. Only 7 cycles and it actually lasts. Perfect for writing outside on a perfect fall evening. PowerPC will never die!

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Hey, it's my first time doing a #MIDI cover... just like the early days of the internet! This one is "Funk Enhanced Mix" from the eternally controversial homebrew game, #Paprium!

https://t.co/WfNwZA8Atu

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@fgasking One of the only FMV games that actually had passable "gameplay" instead of being an interactive movie. I do wonder if the CD32 build is till out there, but what I really want to surface are the original master tapes for the 3DO soundtrack... which are almost 100% certainly lost.

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@FreddyVETELE I didn't need one before cause it didn't work on Tandy yet and my only XT-class PC is a 1000RL! With its single ISA slot any card that can do more than one thing is a big win!

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https://t.co/GGGFjEMQP9
PS. A good bit of my back catalog never got the video treatment, so I'm hoping to revisit those too!

[MrKsoft @MrKsoft486]

Finally finished rebuilding my chiptune and video workflow on Linux, so now for some new covers! This one is JCH's "Commercial Rhythm", originally a FastTracker module, now on Yamaha YM3812 (OPL2).

Link in comments!

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Today and tomorrow - The OPL Archive at #vcfmw!

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@BlazeHedgehog Unfortunately, the mindset of the internet is no longer "do things for fun" - everything now seems to be done with the intent of either directly making money, or building a following in order to make money in the future. Very few are in it for the love of the game anymore.

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Good thing I was stress testing VGMSlap's playlist handling ahead of VCF Midwest... ended up finding a big memory leak! Fear the malloc()!
R4 has been published as a hotfix for this.
https://t.co/fGp6TJZvl1

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The OPL Archive - Release 9!

87 new songs! A variety of artists make up today's update - 31 of them are newly added!

We're up to 1272 songs by 207 artists.

https://t.co/4W4xLvU96g

#retrocomputing #chiptune #opl2 #opl3 #ym3812 #ymf262

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@Gammitin I think it needs it. It looks less like "aged patina" and more like "smoker's house" in the photos.

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@LinuxJedi @Gammitin I have a Backpack version of this, iirc I opened it up and it has an ESS chip inside. No driver disks with mine either - I have the drivers for the CD part, but not the audio (referred to as "BACKPACK Sound" in the readme)

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I have just released VGMSlap R3! MS-DOS's most visually stimulating VGM player is better than ever!
https://t.co/fGp6TJZvl1
New channel level bars to stare at! Percussion/rhythm mode works! Bug fixes! And the source code is more readable!

#retrocomputing #chiptune #opl2 #opl3

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@Mac84tv Yeah, political views aside, I just don't think that's an appropriate email for a business to send. Thanks for the alternative recommendation as I stock up on stickers for VCFMW.

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@SonicCDMedia Man, this game has all kinds of undocumented wackiness going on. Between the final and the prototypes it feels like there's always a new secret to be discovered.