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pentium wrote: Now the $10 second hand drum set is a MIDI enabled drum instrument.

Trippynet wrote: Well, I flew back from a training course the other day. The plane was a small 30 seater JetStream plane, and as you can see from the picture, there was a grand total of 1 passenger (ie, me).

Quite nice having your own personal jet and stewardess for a flight (who kindly took this picture). Also had a nice chat with the pilot too before we took off - he said it seemed rather daft to use the tannoy for one person, so just came and spoke to me direct. Definitely one of the more memorable and enjoyable flights I've had

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pentium wrote: I pulled all the digital guts out of a Guitar Hero drum set and replaced it with an Arduino Pro Mini microcontroller.
Now the $10 second hand drum set is a MIDI enabled drum instrument.

There's a video on how to do this, by the way.

ivelegacy wrote: who's been a good boy? who's been a bad boy?
" American Horror Story " I am watching the first series, " Murder House "
even Gaga, whose tastes are exemplary, likes the series

commodorejohn wrote: Writing an SDL rotozoomer with support for per-line rotation/scale/offset parameters so I can do SNES RPG-style tilted-plane map effects without having to dig into OpenGL. Already did a proof-of-concept version in FreeBasic, but it was slow as shit because I didn't make any meaningful attempt to optimize on even the algorithmic level. Hopefully the end result here will be a hell of a lot faster.

commodorejohn wrote: Writing an SDL rotozoomer with support for per-line rotation/scale/offset parameters so I can do SNES RPG-style tilted-plane map effects without having to dig into OpenGL. Already did a proof-of-concept version in FreeBasic, but it was slow as shit because I didn't make any meaningful attempt to optimize on even the algorithmic level. Hopefully the end result here will be a hell of a lot faster.

commodorejohn wrote: Heh Layer count will actually be pretty much arbitrary, and sprites are just graphic objects blitted into the layers, so (minus performance considerations) there shouldn't be much of a limit on that. (Heck, you could even have multiple rotozoomer layers - say, a ground map and then a sky map with the same rotation but inverted scaling and a much slower parallax motion. Just need a little fog to hide the sharp-edged horizon and voila, instant skybox.) As for sound, it's still (mostly) in the planning stages, but I'm scheming up a combination subtractive/FM softsynth (plus some kind of wavetable support so at least sampled drums can be used.)

(Also: the SNES sound chip is actually strict wavetable with no proper filter at all, save for the bit that does reverb. What occasionally sounds like a lowpass filter is actually adjustably-weighted linear interpolation between samples, to smooth out the artifacts caused by its built-in sample-compression format.)

commodorejohn wrote: In the right hands it can sound quite good (*cough* Chrono Trigger *cough*)

commodorejohn wrote: ) Of course, FM has its own pitfalls (particularly the "everything sounds like rubber bands and farts" syndrome heard on too many DOS games with token-effort Sound Blaster support,) but so does anything.