Smiling Savage Kiosk #2
Smiling Savage Kiosk #2
A list of related, tangental, inspirational, or completely random links shared from this week's browser history
Music
While creating the last post on music creation I narrated a video of the song playing in Logic Pro. I was disappointed by the results, as I think the music was too much in the background. In the future I’d like to do more videos about how songs are created, so I want to figure this out. I thought this how-to-video explains how to achieve the results I want, capturing in-device audio alongside microphone audio.
The free and open source BlackHole audio driver for routing audio between apps appears to be the key software component — https://existential.audio/blackhole/
This week’s earworm: Collect Your Things and Run by Hot Water Music — https://music.apple.com/us/album/collect-your-things-and-run/1592574428?i=1592574760
Computing
I think this is a beautiful retro set-up:
Turning a Pi Zero into a SCSI emulator which can emulate multiple devices simultaneously — https://blog.tindie.com/2022/01/turn-your-pi-zero-into-a-scsi-emulator/
Fun using a rotary phone to enter numbers:
Lotus 123 spreadsheet software on two cartridges for the IBM PCjr:
A portable Atari 800, with wood veneer no less (I can’t tell if it exists only as an image, but it’s still neat to see):
This is a nice tour of a soldering workbench — https://linuxjedi.co.uk/2022/01/30/soldering-workbench-tour/
Neat to see replacement Commodore 64 boards — https://www.tindie.com/products/bobsbits/sixtyclone-commodore-64-replica-pcbs/
The Cerberus 2080 is a newly created 8-bit computer for students and hobbyists — https://www.thebyteattic.com/p/cerberus-2080.html
Photography
As I mentioned in an earlier photography piece I’m looking to get back into the darkroom. I recently toured PhotoWorks at Glen Echo, Maryland and loved it — https://www.glenechophotoworks.org
Writing
A bit meta to my writing: How to ensure the Smiling Savage is found in Google searches… I found setup to have a better outcome than this author, but I am using my own domain on Substack, so maybe that helps?
While I’m at it, I hooked up Google Analytics in case — no, for when — tracking subscriber conversions needs to be easier — https://karen-cherry.medium.com/how-to-add-google-analytics-to-substack-b20a5d6b8524
Gaming
A nicely detailed look at how to create a video game in hardware, not software — in the style of the original arcade version of Space Invaders in the late 70s — https://memorymachinepod.com/2022/01/31/stormtrooper-attack-making-your-own-video-games-1970s-style-part-3/
New to me, it’s neat to learn about disk emulators as replacements for the optical drives in systems like the Sega Saturn, as this would be a great project — https://castlemaniagames.com/products/fenrir
Very nice looking forthcoming book on the Atari Lynx — https://zafinnbooks.com/gameguide_lynx.html#extHeader19-8k
The virally popular game Wordle has been in the news, and here are some retro conversions of the game for…
Commodore 64 — https://github.com/spiroharvey/c64/tree/main/Wordle
Intellivision — https://atariage.com/forums/topic/329869-intle-wordle-for-intellivision/
BBC Micro — http://bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=4073
This forthcoming Steam game ZERO_PAGE, which uses in-game emulated Apple II computers for the puzzles, looks incredible — https://store.steampowered.com/app/1752240/Zero_Page/
I recommend watching this making-of video about how the emulation is done in the game engine, including how the sound effects were created, and how the Apple II’s expansion abilities makes it possible: