Shane Plays Geek Talk Episode #246 – 9/1/2021
Highlights: Matt Lister aka Cobra Commander joins to talk chiptune music, retrocomputing, and some classic G.I. Joe and Transformers. Trackers, hardware, and sound chips, oh my! What is MIDI (and can MIDI be chiptunes)? PAL, NTSC and electron guns. Atari 2600 game development and racing the beam. Yars’ Revenge had very tricky programming. Behold the Casio XW-PD1 Trackformer, aka the Millennium Falcon, and grovel before its amazingness.
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SHOW NOTES
Cobra Commander’s Chiptunes
https://youtube.com/channel/UCqEk4PpkeoHlK738h83o1Cg
Matt’s Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/cobracommanderrules/
Matt’s Twitter
https://twitter.com/CobraYouFools
Matthew Lister on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2yWikE7D9y14AwYoiPILCT
Matthew Lister Classical Guitar
http://www.matthewlister.com/wordpress/
LSDJ Little Sound DJ – Game Boy music sequencer
https://www.littlesounddj.com/lsd/index.php
FamiTracker – free windows tracker for producing music for the NES/Famicom-systems
http://famitracker.com/
Slocum Tracker – Web based Atari 2600 music tracker
https://www.igorski.nl/apps/slocum-tracker
Arduino – Open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software
https://www.arduino.cc/
GenMDM – MIDI interface for the 16-bit Sega Genesis/Megadrive
https://catskullelectronics.com/products/genmdm
SID-Wizard – Commodore 64 tracker
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sid-wizard/
Casio XW-PD1 Trackformer
https://www.casio-intl.com/asia/en/emi/products/xw-pd1/
Artiphon Instrument 1
https://artiphon.com/pages/instrument1
Matt’s Chiptunes Inspirations:
-Luc Hash
-Pixel Pedant
-Chipxel (?)
-Defense Mechanism
-Kemikziel
-Rob Hubbard
Bad Gear – The show about the world’s most hated audio tools
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOJVsjPZcE9HxsgPKCxZfAg
MAGFest – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAGFest
Steve Ballmer: Developers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs
MIDI on Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI
Theremin on Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin
1950’s SciFi Theremin Music DEMO (Sound Clips Only) JARichardsFilm 720p
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYaT704C7_w
The Visual Trick That Makes Yars’ Revenge Work
https://retrovolve.com/the-visual-trick-that-makes-yars-revenge-work/
Matt Barton interviews George Sanger aka “The Fat Man” on Matt Chat:
Matt Chat 143: Introducing The Fat Man (George Sanger)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp2ESjStMbU
Matt Chat 144: The Fat Man Talks Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE4AjdWtdnM
Matt Chat 145: Why The Fat Man?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFiSv-z98rY
Matt Chat 147: Wing Commander, Ultima Underworld, and The 7th Guest with The Fat Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVDiKGTRTE8
Matt Chat 148: The Fat Man’s Topiary Creatures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttno9RAQZOE
Dungeons and Desktops: The History of Computer Role-Playing Games 2nd Edition
Shane’s book! Co-authored with Matt Barton of Matt Chat
Order on Amazon now:
https://www.amazon.com/Dungeons-Desktops-History-Computer-Role-Playing/dp/1138574643/
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