Preamble
Everyone is talking about Chiptunes these days, the retro sound obtained from the games devices, and home computers of the 80s:
- Music from Game Boys –
- For the original Game Boys are best, see Game Boy Sound System, and for more details Gameboy sound hardware.
- Instructables – The ultimate guide to creating chiptunes on the game boy, an excellent guide, which also features a DIY repair guide for GameBoys.
- Note that GameBoy Advance, or Nintendo DS are not so useful when trying to make music
- Magical Game Boys: Demystifying The Live Chiptune Performance
- C64 SID, MOS Technology 6582, see SID. Also 8580R5 and 6581, Video chip 6567 (VIC20)
- General Instruments AY-3-8910
- YM2149F, a derivative of the AY-3-8910
- Texas Instruments SN76489
Featured image courtesy of Button Masher T.O.
See also
- MIDI on OSX
- Battered GameBoy
- Barebones Arduino
- ByteBeat on Arduino (sort of vaguely related)
- ArduinoBoys and others
- Making your own ArduinoBoy
- GameBoy Flashers
- Making your own GameBoy Flash cartridges
- DMG internals
- DMG music cartridge
Links
- The original writer for the Arduino, Linus Akesson, The hardware chiptune project
- A customarily bad guide from Instructables – Arduino Chiptunes
ArduinoBoy
TeensyBoy
The hot devices
From The ultimate chiptune producers’ gear guide
- Commodore64
- MSSIAH – for C64
- GameBoy
- LSDj and Nanoloop
- Magical 8bit plug – VST
- VOPM
- NES
- MIDInes – for NES
- Famitracker
- Chipsounds by Plouge – VST
- KORG DS-10
- Anything with an AY-3-8910 in it – Spectrum128, Intellivision
Noticed you linked our ShieldBoy, which works great!
I experimented on a few things though, such as if I could make a rackmount version (easier to use multiple ArduinoBoys in a 1U) but ended up settled on what I call the StageBoy (https://github.com/m00dawg/stageboy). This is what we use for both recording and live performances of the GameBoy with the band.
It combines an ArduinoBoy with the PISS Box design (though with a MUCH bigger and better transformer) into a single metal box. I had meant to make 3D printed panels for it but the open sides haven’t been enough of a bother to mess with it (if I do, I’ll be sure to add them to the project).
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HI there, thanks for the comment. Yes, I like your design. Do you actually sell the board (either as a kit or assembled)? You should really add a few photos of the board (at different angles) to the page, as the only image of it is a brief blurred shot of it in the video. By the way, there is an unfortunate typo in your menu item, and URL, of the AdvanceRack (Ardunio) page, the “i” is in the wrong place.
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