Answer to preceding post ... ByteBeat

As you may have tried yourself, the tiny binaries produced by the preceding code create long tunes directly coded by a function of time !

So you basically have s=f(t) where s is the output sample, t the sample id and f a simple expression as the one I put on the title.

The thing is you can actually build quite complex song with it ! 

This technique has been called bytebeat and the main article describing it was made by someone named "viznut".

See the original article here http://countercomplex.blogspot.fr/2011/10/algorithmic-symphonies-from-one-line-of.html or here http://canonical.org/~kragen/bytebeat/

u=t*((t>>13)&31&t>>9)-((t>>7)&23&t>>3)

What is this ?? Well it's a very interesting thing I found on the web the other day.

If you have a bitbox please download and run this small (3.1kB) program - it needs sound, not display. (I'll provide the code  - which is really not much more than what is in the title .. and some background info soon).

Controls : plug in sound output, also try to press the bitbox button. I really like the 8th one ..

(edit) for those with a linux computer, here is a sdl backend compilation of the same code ... ans a big hint

new game : Dragon's Lair !

Ah .. such a nice game to play on the Bitbox ! (see Angry Video Game Nerd or Joueur du Grenier reviews ;) ... )

The game is open source and the release is here : https://github.com/makapuf/bitbox-fmv

For more info about the game see : http://www.dragons-lair-project.com/games/pages/dl.asp
for Bitbox itself see main repo / wiki : https://github.com/makapuf/bitbox/



 


This game / engine is aimed at reproducing the dragons lair game on the Bitbox. It's only compatible with the standard bitbox since the data is streamed from SD card.

Back from FOSDEM

I got back from the FOSDEM a week and but didn't have the time to write about : here are some small notes about it.

Meet you @ FOSDEM 16 !

Just a quick note to say that I'll be presenting the Bitbox and what was done this year at fosdem this weekend  (thanks to all contributors past year !) Link to the presentation

New game : Alter Ego

Hi all !

A new game has been published ! It's a port from the Alter Ego NES game (with reused graphics but the code is entirely new). It runs on the bitbox micro as well as the bitbox (as every micro game).

have a look at its gameplay

• The original (non-opensource) game is featured here : www.retrosouls.net/?page_id=614
• The page for the opensource NES port, upon which this project art is based, can be found here : http://shiru.untergrund.net/software.shtml#nes
• Of course the game is opensource : https://github.com/makapuf/bitbox-alterego

 

A longer is also available on youtube 

(The game has currently no sound but that shall be improved upon soon !)

Happy new year

Hi ! I wish you an happy new year, which will be hopefully a nice year for bitbox again.

I will be presenting past year at fosdem 2016 (again) and 2016 will hopefully be the year we issue many great new games.


Development hasn't stopped, however !