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  • Microcontroller music

    Posted on March 27th, 2015 admin No comments

    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

    Posted on January 6th, 2015 admin No comments

    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…

    Posted on November 9th, 2014 admin No comments

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