Matt Lister aka Cobra Commander joins to talk chiptune music, retrocomputing, and some classic G.I. Joe and Transformers. Trackers, hardware, and sound chips, oh my! What is MIDI (and can MIDI be chiptunes)? PAL, NTSC and electron guns. Atari 2600 game development and racing the beam. Yars’ Revenge had very tricky programming. Behold the Casio XW-PD1 Trackformer, aka the Millennium Falcon, and grovel before its amazingness.
Shane Plays Geek Talk Episode #246 – 9/1/2021
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SHOW NOTES
Cobra Commander Chiptunes https://youtube.com/channel/UCqEk4PpkeoHlK738h83o1Cg
Matt’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cobracommanderrules/
Matt’s Twitter https://twitter.com/CobraYouFools
Matthew Lister on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/2yWikE7D9y14AwYoiPILCT
Matthew Lister Classical Guitar http://www.matthewlister.com/wordpress/
LSDJ Little Sound DJ – Game Boy music sequencer https://www.littlesounddj.com/lsd/index.php
FamiTracker – free windows tracker for producing music for the NES/Famicom-systems http://famitracker.com/
Slocum Tracker – Web based Atari 2600 music tracker https://www.igorski.nl/apps/slocum-tracker
Arduino – Open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software https://www.arduino.cc/
GenMDM – MIDI interface for the 16-bit Sega Genesis/Megadrive https://catskullelectronics.com/products/genmdm
SID-Wizard – Commodore 64 tracker https://sourceforge.net/projects/sid-wizard/
Casio XW-PD1 Trackformer https://www.casio-intl.com/asia/en/emi/products/xw-pd1/ Artiphon Instrument 1 https://artiphon.com/pages/instrument1
Matt’s Chiptunes Inspirations Luc Hash Pixel Pedant Chipxel (?) Defense Mechanism Kemikziel Rob Hubbard
Bad Gear – The show about the world’s most hated audio tools https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOJVsjPZcE9HxsgPKCxZfAg
MAGFest – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAGFest
Steve Ballmer: Developers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs
MIDI on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI
Theremin on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin
1950’s SciFi Theremin Music DEMO (Sound Clips Only) JARichardsFilm 720p https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYaT704C7_w
The Visual Trick That Makes Yars’ Revenge Work https://retrovolve.com/the-visual-trick-that-makes-yars-revenge-work/
Matt Barton interviews George Sanger aka “The Fat Man” on Matt Chat Matt Chat 143: Introducing The Fat Man (George Sanger) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp2ESjStMbU Matt Chat 144: The Fat Man Talks Business https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE4AjdWtdnM Matt Chat 145: Why The Fat Man? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFiSv-z98rY Matt Chat 147: Wing Commander, Ultima Underworld, and The 7th Guest with The Fat Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVDiKGTRTE8 Matt Chat 148: The Fat Man’s Topiary Creatures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttno9RAQZOE
— Dungeons and Desktops: The History of Computer Role-Playing Games 2nd Edition Shane’s book! Co-authored with Matt Barton of Matt Chat https://www.amazon.com/Dungeons-Desktops-History-Computer-Role-Playing/dp/1138574643/
