I spent about two weeks migrating my website from Jekyll to Eleventy. Jekyll is probably very good for simple websites, but I added a lot of complicated features to my website, so the Liquid code was a mess. Now that all that complicated code is in JavaScript, I feel like it'll be much easier to maintain.
I'm not sure I can write a good post about my experiences, so I'll just make a big list of tips and links. (make sure...
SquareWave has a 2A03 song that showcases a cool effect that can be achieved by playing two square waves with the same notes at the same time, with the first's waveform set to 25% duty, and the second's set to -25% duty. This effect is called the "pseudofilter" (at least, that's what the comments call it) because of how its tinny, needly waveform resembles the sound of a 50% square wave run through a high pass filter. The basic steps...
Pac-Man Championship Edition Famicom Version's Normal Mode music and Blaster Master's Area 4 and Game Over themes all use this interesting effect in the Famicom/NES's 2A03's triangle channel.
In Blaster Master, it sounds like a ribbit; calling to mind the main goal of this game: to rescue the protagonist's pet frog Fred.
In Pac-Man Championship Edition Famicom Version, it sounds like the overdriven synthesizers that one typically hears in acid music.
These are both created using the same feature: the triangle's linear counter. By setting the linear counter to a low value between 1 and 3, it causes the triangle to pulse (mute and unmute itself) very quickly instead of sustaining a single note. Though it is not possible at the moment to create this effect in FamiStudio, it is possible in Furnace Tracker using effect 19xx. Here is a sample Furnace project file that shows this triangle effect.
Once again, I have discovered an old (2012) romhack of Drayano's that requires a bad dump in order to patch it.
Once again, I will provide instructions on how to patch Sacred Gold and Storm Silver using a legitimate good dump of the game.
16 October 2023 edit: And once again, I am wrong! I wrote this post quickly and misremembered some things. I've actually only encountered one other hack of Drayano's that uses a bad dump as a base rom (which...
In August, I was listening to Tim Follin's work. When I listened to Chronos on youtube, the suggested videos were for other ZX Spectrum beeper music, such as Rubber Love by Mister Beep. I was blown away! I had thought that Tim Follin getting 5 tinny voices out of the one channel beeper was the peak of what one could do, but Rubber Love had a full sound to it! I listened to a lot of ZX Spectrum beeper...