Microcontroller music

Many years ago I wanted to create an indoor game which requires an explosion sound effect. I opted for a microcontroller because it’s cheap and easy to program. But didn’t know exactly how to produce that explosion sound. It was obvious that I have to synthesize the sound instead of playing a recorded sample.
First a PRNG (Pseudorandom Number Generator) came to my mind but it produces a white noise which is not quite like a boom effect. That’s why I turned to ZX Spectrum beeper music. Those guys in 80s did great sound effects with an 8-bit CPU and a simple buzzer.

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Bomber Man / Dyna Blaster for Windows

Bomber Man may be the more popular name of this game, but in 1992 for me it was Dyna Blaster on the Amiga. In 2010 I converted the Amiga version to Windows. This game has so many conversions but it was fun to made my own version. Tests were successful on Windows XP and Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit). It’s just a single exe, no install is required.

Click on the picture to download the game

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Introduction…

The main purpose of this site is to preserve my own work, mostly computer software and electronics related stuff.