Recent months have been hard on my psyche a lot. Slop has essentially removed all fun and most reward from coding. I've been doing a lot of ROM dumping instead. This is where I still get my dopamine. Take that AI.
David Viens
@plgdavid.bsky.social
Lead @plogue.com chip nerd. recycle, repair, repurpose.
Your yearly reminder (and first time on bsky!) that the WAVE specification's smpl.dwEnd (loop) member is inclusive, not exclusive
State of a small software business in 2026: The emails we receive are now 99% B2B AI spam. The remaining 1% are from real humans requesting a specific feature/workflow that no one else needs and no one will ever request again.
You are not using it right! You need to have a web of idiots check the work of another web of idiots. Then it will give you junior level programming results. That will be 100$ please.
Contemplating my first month with Linux as my daily driver. For 32 years Windows felt like home to me. It started getting less so over the years, but that feeling DRASTICALLY eroded in the last year until it suddenly felt like a fucking alien cesspool. I now call Linux my home.
An interview with @plgdavid.bsky.social on our Linux journey linuxaudio.dev/linux-audio-... thanks to Amadeus Paulussen for the opportunity to put our thoughts in writing.
plogue – Linux Audio Development (LAD)
LAD aims to make Linux more attractive as a platform for computer-based music production.
linuxaudio.dev
Been a while since I found good CRTs on the curb. I don’t want to repost on my secondary X account that did only that. I already have too many to pick and test those two.
Love to try out Friday’s latest build on low powered repurposed E-waste Chromebooks on the sofa. Relaxing
With regards to my findings of today, this was exactly it! The original ‘square button’ Famicom contain the old RP2A03. Got another report of an old mac emulator that implement it too. Strangely this was not known by NESDEV
Brenden@bro3256.com · 2y agoyour useless Famicom trivia for today is that there is a difference in the fire sound in Super Mario Bros. between a square button console and a round button console
Aparently I just made a rather important discovery about the old (letter-less) RP2A03. Lidnariq (NESDEV guru just confirmed from die shots) essentially the lowest noise period value is different: 2046 instead of the 4068 in later revisions. This might change how certain sound effects sound
Your yearly reminder (and first time on bsky!) that the WAVE specification's smpl.dwEnd (loop) member is inclusive, not exclusive
Made a new high sample rate DC recording of the NES MDFourier test by @pineight.com and @artemio.bsky.social Here: archive.org/details/mdf4... This time with the original DC voltages intact.
archive.org
Microsoft can sabotage itself pretty good. Resisted upgrading to 24H2 as long as I could muster its nags. Caved in and no less than 3 MAJOR issues happened: My main USB audio device randomly starts and stops (pop-ing my speakers), WSL2 had to be re-installed and Sandbox has broken DNS. Good job.
Needed to do fresh recordings of the MDfourier test on a PAL NES, so popped up my new kickstarter copy of www.kickstarter.com/projects/122... for a spin (its contains this test among many other great things). Having your name and backer number written to EEPROM is a very nice touch!
2024 was a pretty intense year for the team! We are now ready to announce that sforzando and all chip plugins will be supported natively under Linux in the future and at no extra cost to current users. Expect betas in Q2/2025!
