backups backups backups backups backups. good stuff

Sees Archon in a chess collection and mentally melts.

Yes we hang in the same discord and compare results a lot. A lot of my recordings were used in that research

Worked all week on a single download Linux package. Basically a series of .deb files with a script. Works so far on not only Debian-based distros but latest Fedora and Manjaro too

Just uploaded the MDFourier capture in various format here archive.org/details/rp-2...

Yes but that was known for a while, this is something ‘new’

There’s been literally hundreds of NES emulators written since Nesticle came out in 97. Thousands of homebrew coders and nearly as many hardware hackers have probed those things before I did, so yes I do think documenting something new at this point feels pretty strange ha!

Also the internal levels of the channels do not (seem) to match the later versions exactly compared to a 2A03G setup as emulated in chipsynth FC beta. Watch this thread for more.

Here is the difference between the two. First you hear the 16 different long noises of the Old vs, then the new ones. Notice the difference at the start - you kind of have the impression its stuck, this is because the two values are very similar 2046 then 2034 vs 4068 then 2034

The original chip has 10 outputs on its Noise Period table, while the latter one has 11.

The old 2A03 was used in the Donkey Kong 3 and original Punch Out Arcades, the VS series and the very first batch of Famicoms sold (the buggy ones). Lets see if any of those games used the `$F` noise...

I was recording the @artemio.bsky.social / @pineight.com MDFourier test on it and, it sounded very odd in the LONG noise section, not ONLY in the short noise (which is not present at all). Did Saleae 1.79MHz captures and yes I was not imagining things:

Thanks to a fellow dev, the archive is now on archive.org/details/RIFF...

Thanks for the early 2000s flashback. Removing that old stinky scary monster in my basement was the first item on my list after putting loud music on when we got our house. “But but the warmth is much more cosy” was the argument then. Replaced it all for electric with no second thought.

Its an ancient first generation MAudio MTrack. Old AF but its ADC is incredibly flat and doesn’t colour any range. Its The MDFourier reference.

Sounds like my issue. Turning all the USB power suspend suggestions didn’t help. The device worked perfectly in 23h2 and still does in on another machine