New Myspace profile for nitro2k01!
June 27th, 2008
Finally I’ve started a new Myspace profile. This one has music, unlike my old one. This new has a bunch of 8-bit style delicious animated gifs and lies and deception of the caek magnitude!
So check it out! And add me! Add me! FFS, add me!
>>http://www.myspace.com/thatnitrodude<<
Gameboy Development forum launched!
February 23rd, 2008For those who are interested in it, I have now started a Gameboy development forum for the old-school Gameboys (Monochrome versions and GBC)
it can be found right here: http://gameboygenius.8bitcollective.com/gbdev/index.php
Gameboy camera tribute
January 5th, 2008
Here’s something I found during my random surfing today: A Gameboy camera tribute page, with a gallery and a tutorial on how to best use the camera. The page is from 1999, but the tips are still valid. Hmm, that inspired me!
Driverguide Gameboy Spotting
December 19th, 2007Ok, this is silly, but I couldn’t resist.
Also a shoutout to George Lazenbleep the person with the newest blog in my RSS reader.
Pocketnoise by Christoph Kummerer - A Gameboy music program I never heard of!
December 3rd, 2007I discovered the program Pocketnoise by Christoph Kummerer today, in this video:
A quick google gave me that the ROM is not available. Does anyone know more about this program or have valid contact information for Christoph Kummerer? From what I found on the net, it seems like the guy made this program and then disappeared from the surface of the planet. Or is perhaps Christoph someone I know from the GB music community, just not under that name?
Pushpin Gameboy MIDI synth now open source!
November 27th, 2007Have you ever heard about the Pushpin Gameboy MIDI synth? It’s a mysterious thing that I first saw maybe around 2000 or 2001. Over the years I’ve tried to reach the creators of this project, but without success. I thought the whole thing was fake, and that the music was perhaps made with LSDj or some other software.
As I know now, that’s not the case, but I wonder why it took them 7 years of silence before getting Pushpin out to the world.
This is an interesting piece of software that I have waited for for a long time now. I’ll build an interface as soon as I can. And I’m also going to try to do what I can to help the project, in terms of hardware and software development.
So far, I’ve written a Pushpin hardware tutorial, which I will update as time goes by.
The program and source code can be downloaded from the Pushpin Google Code page and there’s also documentation on variogr.am.
Gameboy på svenska
November 24th, 2007Jag råkade snubbla över ett svenskt Gameboy-forum, som också har ambitionen att vara en speldatabas, med recensioner. Jag vet inte hur bra de har lyckats hittills, men sidan verkar trevlig, och jag rekommenderar ett besök för dem som är intresserade.
(Tack Småm. Du hjälpte mig hitta sidan utan att ens veta om det. 
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Lemon Gameboy Music Tracker
October 31st, 2007As you may or may not now, I actively check my referrers to see where people come from, and what they searched for when they ended up at my blog. Sometimes I find really interesting things, and this is one of them.
Someone from Czech (Hello 
) searched for lemon tracker gameboy. This tool has totally passed me by. It is appearantly a tracker without its own sequencer. Instead, it converts modules made with FT2 to its own format. I have still to check it out, but it seems to be a decent player that was abandoned before it was done, and no sources exist for LMP 2, as far as I can find. And no good contact info either. (Edit: I found a way now)
If the person searching for it sees this, a mirror of his site is available here: http://members.fortunecity.com/lemon26/. (Including source code for LMP 1 and a demo of LMP 2)
I’m actually considering disassembling the LMP2 demo and extract and maybe improve the player engine, if I get the time to it. I’m convinced I can do it with some time and effort, but if I’m going to give it a try, I want at least one person to say they want me to do it. I’m also contacting Gilles (Lemon) about this, and I’ll see if he’ll answer.
Akiba-kei (Song preview)
September 21st, 2007Please excuse the background noise. Something went havoc with my sound card, and the noise was all over. I’ll re-record once I get it sorted out.
Other than that, this is a tune produced in less than 24 hours, which is uncommon for me. (Usually takes months from start to finish, if I ever finish it)
I’ll probably release the sav for this one, once I’ve ploished it a bit.
I’m on Facebook!
August 12th, 2007I can’t say I didn’t hesitate, but after a while I felt I had to see what the fuzz is about. So now I’ve joined Facebook. I tried to be careful about only adding people who would recognize me, and I didn’t turn on “spam mode”. I will not preach about what’s so good with FB. (Frankly, I’m not even sure myself yet) If you’re in it, fine, otherwise, fine too.
However, I decided to give it a serious, and today I also created a group, the Gameboy Musicians group. If you’re on Facebook, and you’re a Gameboy musician, join it, whynot?
Until next time, good bye and have a nice day!
