27 Июнь 2010 at 3:44 pm, posted by Shiru
Just a few days ago there was a
featured post about Special FX engine and it's creator. Unfortunately, there are really sad news about the creator.
Jonathan 'Joffa' Smith, also known as Frobush, was in hospital since end of the April, suffering from a very serious condition. It was initially reported that he is on the mend, however, he passed away yesterday, June 26, at age 43.
People refers to him as one of the most talented Spectrum programmers, childhood hero, source of inspiration, and simply great man. As game developer, he worked at Ocean, Special FX Software, Software Creations, and Rage, creating both code and graphics for his original games and ports for home computers and consoles. His works often were highly praised by game press and players. Besides of the game development, he was also known as DJ, script writer, and film maker.
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23 Июнь 2010 at 2:22 pm, posted by Shiru
Beepola, a Windows cross-tracker with multiple 1-bit sound engines from ZX Spectrum, has been updated to v1.04. This update fixes some bugs, no new engines were added this time. Don't forget to check /songs/ subfolder, there are some recently released songs in editable format.
Download Beepola v1.04 (704K)
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22 Июнь 2010 at 01:59 am, posted by Shiru
Although most of the modern 1-bit music activity happens on ZX Spectrum, it is not limited to the platform. So does this blog, and here is the first non-ZX related post.
First, just listen to a song released in February of this year:
The Zipper (
alternative link)
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14 Июнь 2010 at 5:26 pm, posted by Shiru
Although he is a new name on the 1-bit scene, Voxel took a low start, and has made four nice original songs in just a week. He used Beepola with Special FX engine for all the songs, and also made slight processing of the recorded sound, which included EQ and stereo expanding. Here all the songs:
My Beep Song
Beeper Dance
Beeper Rock'AnD'Roll
Dream of Beeper
13 Июнь 2010 at 4:56 pm, posted by Shiru
As 1-bit music scene is waking up, we have decided to maintain a blog dedicated to it. Here it is. You will find here the links to recent and older 1-bit releases as well as posts on this topic in general, about software, people and other related things.
Currently there are two authors: Shiru and Alone. You might remember us for some 1-bit music software for ZX Spectrum and songs.
13 Июнь 2010 at 4:56 pm, posted by Alone
Shiru has made one more 1-bit song in Beepola using Special FX engine (2 channels of tone, no volume control, drums):
River City Rancor.
