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- 2025-07-06
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The SID 8580 has only 3 voices, while the POKEY offers as many as 4 voices. - 🎶 SID flirts with the sine wave through triangle and filter; POKEY ignores it entirely and sings in a jagged 8-bit rhythm. Which voice wins your retro heart❓
- 🎵 SID may know how to draw triangles, but our ears prefer the gritty charm of harmonics over the sterile ideal of a pure tone.
- Despite having just 3 voices, the SID can also simultaneously play Pulse-Code Modulation samples via a “4th channel” by modulating volume through register $D418. 🎶
- Tomkh operates on Rule #1 logic — and every reply is just fuel. Sometimes the best flex is total silence. 🛑
- Krill, at Lost Party 2025, a demo in the Wild category on C64 — called Blue SAM — plays the full “Blue” by Eiffel 65 using speech synthesis. 👾🎤🔵 Grab it from https://www.lostparty.pl — Stuff section. 💾
- 2025-07-07
- @Krill: So… did Blue SAM leave you da ba stunned or da ba meh? 🗣️🔵 C64 synth magic still echoing? 👾🎶 Stuff section — https://www.lostparty.pl/
- @Krill: I know... external link, Polish page, daze mode ON... but trust me — Blue SAM C64 is worth a floppy moment of your life 💾🌀 Now also on https://demozoo.org/productions/374494/
- If you too want to hear Blue SAM on C64 singing "da ba dee da ba daa" live at Lost Party 2025 — skip to 1:00:50 in the compo and hear it for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNtAvsrFZNo 💙🗣️🔊
- On the C64, PETSCII is mapped to screen code, so byte 1 equals "A". On the Atari XL, ANTIC interprets display code 1 as "!". Commodore performed this mapping earlier than Atari did. 🧠
- Here are photos from Lost Party 2025 held in Licheń Stary, Poland http://www.krupkaj.cz/xgal/album.php?show=Lost2025 🌟 Next year in Licheń — same magic, new memories.🌾
- Without any modification Commodore 64 Serial Bus and 1541 operate at 3200 bit/s. 🐌 Compare it with standard Atari SIO operating at 19200 bit/s. 🚀
- 2025-07-08
- Atari’s SIO (1978, ~120 kbit/s) pioneered plug-and-play serial daisy-chaining — its architect Joe Decuir later helped design USB (1996, 1.5 Mbit/s to 40 Gbit/s), echoing SIO’s scalable, auto-configuring spirit in a universal standard.🧠
- The SIO port in Atari supplied +5V power via pin 10 (+5V/Ready), and like any such line, it had low internal resistance and no protection circuits. 😬🔥
- 🧠 Joe Decuir, drawing on his Atari chops (SIO, ANTIC), co-designed DMA in Amiga’s Agnus chip — a DMA marvel powering bit-blitter graphics 🎨, 4-channel audio 🎶, sprites 🕹️, floppies 💾, and Copper ⚡. In 1985 it was the most advanced DMA magic in home computing. 🪄
- That extra space appears only on the main screen — if you press 'more', it’s no longer there.
- Aaron MJ — is Brainbow 🔷🧬 more like Tetris, Bejeweled, or is it another world? 🌈🧠
- 2025-07-09
- In Poland, Feud 🌿was even broadcast on the cult show Radiokomputer via radio! This version featured a unique loader that let you play a simple puzzle 🧩 and listen to the theme from Beverly Hills Cop 🎶, making it a true demo-scene unicorn from behind the Iron Curtain 🦄
- 🛍️ Buy a C64 💻 and unlock new sensations 🌈 — envy fades 😒, joy floods in 🎉 like a retro wave 🌊🕹️.
- 📐 Don’t be sad, ^ML!^ — your next function might be the one that finally makes the floating point cry. Drop that juicy routine from your numeric vault and let’s dissect it like true mathonauts! 🧮🚀
- 🐶 Bulldog Software, active mainly in 1987 as a sublabel of Mastertronic 🏷️, released not only Feud 🧙♂️⚡ but also the brilliant game Colony 🛸 — featuring colony patrol missions 🚶♂️🌌 and intense insect battles 🐜💥.
- 🎮 Mastertronic gave the world Action Biker, 🧙♂️ Bulldog delivered Feud and Colony — same publisher, different faces of the budget scene.