MrKsoft

Yeah it's official I think I'm done with this place, for reasons. Here are two other, better places to find me. Account will be kept online because I don't like link rot.

I can be found on Mastodon (@ mrksoft @ bitbang dot social) and BlueSky (@ mrksoft dot bsky dot social)

Btw, given how ridiculously stupid Twitter is now, I'm somewhat sunsetting posts on this account. I think I'll just be posting major announcements and releases here. My posts are effectively invisible here due to not "paying to play" anyway.

How about a new Commodore 64 #chiptune cover to spice up your Halloween? Here's "Dracula's Tears", from the Wizardry Lab area in #Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow. Now squeezed down to a mere 3 channels of SID goodness! youtu.be/nZehwo58Ysk

This iBook somehow came with a practically brand new battery in 2024. Only 7 cycles and it actually lasts. Perfect for writing outside on a perfect fall evening. PowerPC will never die!

Hey, it's my first time doing a #MIDI cover... just like the early days of the internet! This one is "Funk Enhanced Mix" from the eternally controversial homebrew game, #Paprium! youtube.com/watch?v=etrXn0…

@fgasking One of the only FMV games that actually had passable "gameplay" instead of being an interactive movie. I do wonder if the CD32 build is till out there, but what I really want to surface are the original master tapes for the 3DO soundtrack... which are almost 100% certainly lost.

MegaRace was a futuristic racing game with pre-rendered FMV roads, released on PC and 3DO, but was also due an impressive looking #AmigaCD32 release too. Due to the decline of the market, it would never see the light of day. Could it be recovered one day? gamesthatwerent.com/2024/10/megara…

@FreddyVETELE I didn't need one before cause it didn't work on Tandy yet and my only XT-class PC is a 1000RL! With its single ISA slot any card that can do more than one thing is a big win!

@MrKsoft486 Hi, Why if ? :)

Hi, Latest #PicoMEM firmware is here. The 2 Major changes are : - Tandy 1000 Support. - Full source code published Plus: - CMS and Tandy Audio - Audio plus Joystick can be used even if the BIOS Does not start. - USB Devices display github.com/FreddyVRetro/I…

youtu.be/V3-K3LWof0A PS. A good bit of my back catalog never got the video treatment, so I'm hoping to revisit those too!

Finally finished rebuilding my chiptune and video workflow on Linux, so now for some new covers! This one is JCH's "Commercial Rhythm", originally a FastTracker module, now on Yamaha YM3812 (OPL2). Link in comments!

Today and tomorrow - The OPL Archive at #vcfmw!

@BlazeHedgehog Unfortunately, the mindset of the internet is no longer "do things for fun" - everything now seems to be done with the intent of either directly making money, or building a following in order to make money in the future. Very few are in it for the love of the game anymore.

Controversial statement: it's kind of a bummer how little fangames there are here? Everybody wants to be the next Pizza Tower, or Freedom Planet, or Spark the Electric Jester, and like, that's cool, genuinely, but in chasing fame and fortune everybody forgot why fangames are cool

Good thing I was stress testing VGMSlap's playlist handling ahead of VCF Midwest... ended up finding a big memory leak! Fear the malloc()! R4 has been published as a hotfix for this. github.com/MrKsoft/vgmslap

The OPL Archive - Release 9! 87 new songs! A variety of artists make up today's update - 31 of them are newly added! We're up to 1272 songs by 207 artists. opl.wafflenet.com #retrocomputing #chiptune #opl2 #opl3 #ym3812 #ymf262

@Gammitin I think it needs it. It looks less like "aged patina" and more like "smoker's house" in the photos.

I built this beefy 20Mhz 286 machine for #doscember last year, what's everyone's thoughts on me retro-brighting the front, I'm torn and can't decide? 🤔

@LinuxJedi @Gammitin I have a Backpack version of this, iirc I opened it up and it has an ESS chip inside. No driver disks with mine either - I have the drivers for the CD part, but not the audio (referred to as "BACKPACK Sound" in the readme)

Appeal to @Gammitin (or anyone else who can help). I believe you have one of these Amacom drives. Do you have a copy of the driver disks? Disk 3 is physically damaged 🙁

I have just released VGMSlap R3! MS-DOS's most visually stimulating VGM player is better than ever! github.com/MrKsoft/vgmslap New channel level bars to stare at! Percussion/rhythm mode works! Bug fixes! And the source code is more readable! #retrocomputing #chiptune #opl2 #opl3

@Mac84tv Yeah, political views aside, I just don't think that's an appropriate email for a business to send. Thanks for the alternative recommendation as I stock up on stickers for VCFMW.

Yikes! 😳 Yeah… no thanks!! No matter what your politics are, this is just cringe and not what customers want in their inbox. Needless to say, I’ll continue getting my stickers and buttons from someone else, MakeStickers.com has been a good alternative. (Not sponsored)

@SonicCDMedia Man, this game has all kinds of undocumented wackiness going on. Between the final and the prototypes it feels like there's always a new secret to be discovered.

I feel like documenting something I haven't found any info about online! Did you know? In Knuckles' Chaotix, you can go into not just Ring Debt, but also Score Debt! (btw this will be a super big🧵)