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natalie
@agirisan
VR, chiptune, old computers, AI, time signals & chimes, FM synth, reverse engineering, retro tech preservation. Making open-source hardware & software.
Apr 10, 2021 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
The #SNES (and SFC) #XBAND modem is one of the few cases where you can somewhat accurately say every copy is personalized. They have DS2401 serial number chips, guaranteeing each one has a unique hardware ID on XBAND.

But there is a problem with that.

(thread) The problem is that the original Genesis version of XBAND doesn't have this hardware ID. XBAND needs a persistent, unique identity to work properly, so how do you do that on a Genesis modem?
Apr 8, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Let's Chiptune!! ~PCB Routing Festival~ I need dinner first tho
Sep 26, 2020 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
A while ago, I got ahold of the speech board from the arcade game Berzerk. The star of the show is a TSI S14001A speech chip. And it lives, kinda!

CHICKEN, FIGHT LIKE A ROBOT Berzerk is notable for being one of the earliest arcade games with speech, and the S14001A is itself one of the first (perhaps the first?) single-chip speech synthesizers, from the mid-70s. This page has a nice overview: vintagecalculators.com/html/developme…
Jun 27, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
something arrived today, definitely a holy grail for me...

a Weather Star 4000! this is the box that at one point, among other things, generated the Local on the 8s graphics for the Weather Channel

(small thread) the 4000 was introduced in the 90s. several new Star units came out in later years, but a few areas held on to their 4000s until 2014, when the required satellite feed became unavailable.

(the Weather Star XL, a later model, is notable for being based on an SGI O2...)
Jun 5, 2020 • 28 tweets • 9 min read
i've been working on a proper reimplementation of the XBAND server, and i just had a conversation with someone over X-Mail!

i guess i'll make this a development log thread (i'm going to say right off the bat that gameplay isn't going to work due to voip latency issues, and you should check out retro.link if you're interested in online gameplay on snes/md. also, i'll post xband connection info when the server is more finished)