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interesting experiment, i like it!
Level 17 Playa
Atari TIA Chip
5th/5
cool breeze
199th Σ3.851
face melt
151st Σ4.303
hawt night
197th Σ3.833
sweaty morning
218th Σ3.531
sun in pants
181st Σ4.006
The Exploding Universe
This musical experience encapsulates the feeling of despair when faced with the realization that one is just a a tiny spec of dust in an ultimately meaningless universe filled with violence and chaos.
The human experience is that sometimes you can add something to the overall entropy. You may call it control, but is it really or are you just short sighted?
Best enjoyed alone and by loading up the program. It starts out silent. You will have to engage the Big Bang by pushing the Select or Reset button on the console (F1, F2 in Stella). These buttons will continue to have some effect, but there is no going back.
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Full conclusion on this:
This is a bytebeat1k entry in disguise, meaning most of the ROM is unused.
It's written in C, and heavily based upon the principle of Tom Whitwells Turing Machine for Modular Synthesizers. You can compile it with cc65.
#include <atari2600.h>
#define KERNAL_T1024 17
const char v[] = "TITAN SUCKS!!!";
unsigned char lfsr[4]; // two 16-Bit shift registers, startup code should initialize these to all zeroes
unsigned char lo, hi, i, j; // more variables than necessary
void main(void)
{
for (;;) {
i = ((lfsr[1] & 224) == (lfsr[3] & 224)); // Decide which LFSR to modify
lo = (lfsr[2 * i] & 128) >> 7; // most significant bit of bottom 8-Bit part
lfsr[2 * i] = lfsr[2 * i] << 1;
hi = (lfsr[2 * i + 1] & 128) >> 7; // most significant bit of top 8-bit part
lfsr[2 * i + 1] = lfsr[2 * i + 1] << 1;
lfsr[2 * i + 1] |= lo; // join bottom and top
!(RIOT.swchb & (1 << i)) ? (lfsr[2 * i] |= hi ^ 1) : (lfsr[2 * i] |= hi); // If the corresponding push button is pressed the feedback is inverted
// Lowest 4 bits determine waveshape
// Next 4 determine volume
// Next 5 determine frequency division
TIA.audc0 = lfsr[0] & 15;
TIA.audf0 = lfsr[1] & 31;
TIA.audv0 = (lfsr[0] >> 4);
TIA.audc1 = lfsr[2] & 15;
TIA.audf1 = lfsr[3] & 31;
TIA.audv1 = (lfsr[2] >> 4);
// Top 3 of the current LFSR determine Note length/delay
for (j = lfsr[2 * i + 1] & 224; j > 0; --j) {
RIOT.t1024t = KERNAL_T1024;
while (RIOT.timint == 0) {}
}
}
}
This is a bytebeat1k entry in disguise, meaning most of the ROM is unused.
It's written in C, and heavily based upon the principle of Tom Whitwells Turing Machine for Modular Synthesizers. You can compile it with cc65.
#include <atari2600.h>
#define KERNAL_T1024 17
const char v[] = "TITAN SUCKS!!!";
unsigned char lfsr[4]; // two 16-Bit shift registers, startup code should initialize these to all zeroes
unsigned char lo, hi, i, j; // more variables than necessary
void main(void)
{
for (;;) {
i = ((lfsr[1] & 224) == (lfsr[3] & 224)); // Decide which LFSR to modify
lo = (lfsr[2 * i] & 128) >> 7; // most significant bit of bottom 8-Bit part
lfsr[2 * i] = lfsr[2 * i] << 1;
hi = (lfsr[2 * i + 1] & 128) >> 7; // most significant bit of top 8-bit part
lfsr[2 * i + 1] = lfsr[2 * i + 1] << 1;
lfsr[2 * i + 1] |= lo; // join bottom and top
!(RIOT.swchb & (1 << i)) ? (lfsr[2 * i] |= hi ^ 1) : (lfsr[2 * i] |= hi); // If the corresponding push button is pressed the feedback is inverted
// Lowest 4 bits determine waveshape
// Next 4 determine volume
// Next 5 determine frequency division
TIA.audc0 = lfsr[0] & 15;
TIA.audf0 = lfsr[1] & 31;
TIA.audv0 = (lfsr[0] >> 4);
TIA.audc1 = lfsr[2] & 15;
TIA.audf1 = lfsr[3] & 31;
TIA.audv1 = (lfsr[2] >> 4);
// Top 3 of the current LFSR determine Note length/delay
for (j = lfsr[2 * i + 1] & 224; j > 0; --j) {
RIOT.t1024t = KERNAL_T1024;
while (RIOT.timint == 0) {}
}
}
}
