Ever heard anything better coming out of the 7800?

[CPUWIZ]

Just a little demo of my personal MCP POKEY devcart, crap quality, but it's about the sound.

 

[Jinks]

Wild!! Thats crazy!! How did you learn to make hardware like that? The Aliens told you how didn't they!!

[jetset]

Wild!! Thats crazy!! How did you learn to make hardware like that? The Aliens told you how didn't they!!

 

He is an alien. Only explanation.

[CPUWIZ]

BTW, this is what my POKEY devcart looks like. What is interesting about it, is that as you can see, the 74HCT32 isn't populated. This is because I needed an extra PLD (it lives in the SRAM slot on the back of the VersaBoard), for some magic to toggle between the BIOS and writeable ROM image on the same NVRAM chip, I just did the 32's job with the second PLD as well. I have a modified version of my MCPDevCTRL Windows executable, that actually allows me to 'flash' the BIOS, by entering a certain combination of switch positions.

 

P.S. The BIOS lives in the 7800 address space at $1000-$17FF and $3000-$FFFF and almost the entire memory is used (maybe 512 bytes left or so - LOL).

 

 

[+Random Terrain]

Sounds similar to the stuff they used to have on the Commodore 64.

[DesertJets]

You know whenever you show the hardware stuff you are working on I have no clue what you are talking about. But I know that I like it and look forward to what this will mean for future homebrews and stuff.

[Shawn]

Cool tune.

[LidLikesIntellivision]

Cool tune.

Good to see you again!

[CPUWIZ]

You know whenever you show the hardware stuff you are working on I have no clue what you are talking about. But I know that I like it and look forward to what this will mean for future homebrews and stuff.

 

Thanks, and sorry that the details I throw out are not simple. It sure will mean more homebrew support, that's the whole point. It ain't about making a quick buck, that's for sure.

 

I need to ask my manufacturer, but I am willing to guess that there are at least 3000 cartridges out there that use my 48K board, to give you a rough idea about what it could mean. If people can just upload and test a ROM, without stupid emulators or burning EPROM's, it's a good thing for everyone.

[Brian R.]

Once I opened a 7800 and something like this happened: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49EoV50oba0

 

I was just as shocked.

 

And no one believed me.

[DracIsBack]

Would you be willing to share the BIN?

[CPUWIZ]

No hardware or emulator can run my BIOS, AFAIK. Are you strictly interested in a ROM that plays the music? I can probably whip one together, but not with that huge animation.

[YANDMAN]

Holy shit what did i just hear, That is fricking amazing better than amazing wow dude you are a genius, Just need a nice paced shooter to accompany that now

 

Wow keep up your excellent work

[Rybags]

Where did the music originate? It'd be good to have it on the 8-bit computer if it's not already there.

 

Looks like the graphics use 8 shades of green. Likewise, it'd be interesting to see how close the computer could get, some tricks would be needed there to replicate in 160 resolution.

Edited April 7, 2014 by Rybags

[+grips03]

this music must be added to a vertical shooter, its awesome!!!!!!

[CPUWIZ]

Where did the music originate? It'd be good to have it on the 8-bit computer if it's not already there.

 

Looks like the graphics use 8 shades of green. Likewise, it'd be interesting to see how close the computer could get, some tricks would be needed there to replicate in 160 resolution.

 

I wrote a tool that digs around in SAP archives for RMT4 tunes, extracts them and massages the data for the 7800. And the graphics use 11 shades.

[7800]

Some of the tones remind me of the PC Engine.

[MrFish]

Where did the music originate? It'd be good to have it on the 8-bit computer if it's not already there.

 

The song is "4Tk35", by a guy who uses the handle "Caruso".:

 

4Tk35 by Caruso

 

So yes, it did come from the 8-bits. An awesome Pokey tune...

Edited April 7, 2014 by MrFish

[Stun Runner 87]

Nice.

[Lynxpro]

Sounds like it came from the ST era of gaming...and I mean that as a compliment!

Edited April 7, 2014 by Lynxpro

[Greg2600]

Well, the Atari 5200/8-bit line Pokey sound could produce some pretty good music if given the opportunity. Sounds great CPUWIZ.

Edited April 8, 2014 by Greg2600

[Chris Leach]

Crap. Just crap! When can I get in line for this crap! Man I love yer tunes!

 

Aliens gotta crap too so why not teach cpu how to crap alien style!

 

I'm down with a little somethin somethin if it's gonna be a vertical shooter or not!

 

I like yer work!

[Jinks]

Vertical shooter wha??

[Rhomaios]

I will buy ALL the homebrews! This is amazing!

[+TrekMD]

Fantastic stuff!