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Looks like you should be able to use the VGA ouput with the appropriate adapters and a Monoprice 107114 analog component-to-composite converter to output composite video to a CRT without adding any extra lag, which is huge for me (I play a lot of NES and it just doesn't look right with anything other than composite - all of those streams you see people doing with RGB-modded consoles look terrible to me, since the games were designed for composite or RF output and there are a lot of visual effects that don't work right with higher quality formats). If I didn't already have a couple of working consoles and about 50 games I'd be seriously considering one of these now.

I use a MIDI Solutions splitter to distribute clock if I play out with the Octatrack since it's smaller and less fragile than the Midisizer, and it works great. The MIDIsizer kit is more or less the same thing but with an extra output and the option to use an external power supply if the device hooked up to the input doesn't supply enough power.

I spent a few weeks this month diving into older, non-Behringer ADAT expanders that are inexpensive now but still sound good and I ended up going for an M-Audio Profire 2626 since it seems to be pretty well regarded and fit my needs more (and it was one of the few that bypasses the preamps entirely when you connect to the 1/4" line ins), but this was a close second: https://www.ebay.com/itm/303150446258?ul_noapp=true From what I've read it sounds like they're still pretty solid for the price even now. Very no frills. Someone in a decade old Gearslutz thread claims that he installed some in Carnegie Hall and they were used on some respectable 90s classical recordings if that matters to you. The one I linked is especially cheap but they seem fairly common and consistently under $200USD. The Profire is also a firewire 400 interface (and I might actually use it that way since hooking it up to my current interface as an ADAT expander would limit me to 48kHz, but if I connect it as a second interface I can slave it to my main interface via ADAT to take advantage of the better clock, but still work at 24/96; it arrives Thursday so I'll figure it out this weekend) and is in the same price range, so that's another option. The consensus on the usual messageboards seems to be preamps that are perfectly adequate but nothing special, with nice converters that performed above their price range for the time (including other M audio product lines), and since you can bypass the pres completely they don't really enter into the equation at all for people doing the sorts of things most of us do. I'll let you know how it works for me. EDIT: if you're handy with a soldering iron, this is a perfectly good MIDI splitter: https://midisizer.com/midithru/

Same. My dream, of course, is a drop in board that would replace the CPU in an original SNES with an FPGA clone. There are enough of them with CPU issues out there that it would be great to be able to salvage them, but then they don't really sell for enough now to make it worthwhile for a business to repair them and I doubt most owners would want to tackle taking out the old CPU, installing a socket, and then installing a board. And I don't know how much of the work on FPGA emulation would translate to that scenario, or whether you'd basically be starting from scratch more or less. Still holding out hope that mine actually works with RF, I never used the composite out before I tried it last week but hooking up RF is a pain these days.

I haven't paid much attention to this stuff until recently, and I just discovered my SNES has the dead CPU (I THINK, I haven't tried RF out yet but I'm not hopeful) and since I never owned one as a kid and only have 4 or 5 games that came with the free one the video store where I worked in college was throwing out, I'm not sure if it's worth replacing. I was planning to get an Everdrive or something for it in the fall (all of my money until then is earmarked for a synth building project) but if the timing's good and the sound is OK this might be a better option. Is it possible to set it up to use original controllers via GPIO or something instead of usign USB adaters (yeah I know I could Google it)? That would probably eliminate most of the lag if you can get it working with a fast monitor (which I don't have). OTOH the main reason I had the SNES around to begin with was to record live video from a Gameboy camera through a Super Gameboy adapter, so maybe I should just spend the $20-$30 to replace it. Trouble is finding a working console on its own (don't need PSU or controllers or anything, just a console that works and is a revision that isn't known for CPU failures, at a fair price), usually they're either untested and questionable, bundled with a bunch of games and accessories I don't want and marked way up, or priced fairly but with really excessive shipping fees (which is a classic tactic - I knew a guy in the record store days who was selling $0.50 bargain bin LPs nobody else considered worth selling on eBay, with $0.01 starting prices and made his entire income on shipping fees even though he sold a lot of the records at a loss relative to what they cost him). Between that and his wife's income they were able to buy a house and support a family so it was working well at least for a while.

No idea really, I got mine in the initial crowdfunding campaign so it tooka while to actually ship. I'd guess a week at most now, but I don't really know.

Played through Ninja Gaiden for the first time in quite a while after work. Pretty rusty, took over an hour and a half to get to the last boss and I died and got kicked back all the way to that green stage. Didn't have it in me to go through the last 4 or 5 stages again tonight but I should be able to beat it next time. The last two levels are still pretty tough, just frustrating enough that you feel like you accomplished something when you make it through.

Enter the Supersensorium: The neuroscientific case for Art in the age of Netflix A+++ EDIT: it's good enough I can even forgive him indulging in the bougie false binary of "Art vs. Entertainment" and that's saying something, because I don't usually stand for that shit.

Newest console I have is N64. Played Double Dragon II for the first time in about 15 years earlier tonight. Blew through to the last level on one life and then fell in a pit a bunch of times in the last one.

Finally picked up Blaster Master, that's one of those games I rented every chance I got but never had long enough to get very far in, and could never really get into on emulators.

I upgraded from a mid tier laptop from 2011 to a mid-tier (i.e. it's still just a laptop but it has an Nvidia GPU with some GPU accelerated physics capabilities etc.) "gamer's laptop" from 2016 this week, so I can now play semi-recent games. But should I? I'm considering picking up Totally Accurate Battle Simulator.

I never owned it growing up so I've never beaten it even once, much less 6 or 7 loops (has anyone even figured out how many loops it takes before it stops getting harder, or is 7 just the highest number anyone has managed so far?) but it's not as hard as I remember. Hard for sure, but fun hard. But I'm only getting through the first two levels so far and those are the easy ones, so we'll see. Meanwhile, I'm out of town for the weekend and I figured I could practice Nightmare on Elm Street on my laptop, since there are some jumps in the last level that are giving me trouble, but having the actual hardware out again has ruined emulation for me. The input lag was just killing me. On hardware I can usually get through at least the first three or four levels without dying at all lately, on the emulator I couldn't even get to the boss of level 5 before I was out of continues. When I had only played on emulators for the past 15 years or whatever, I noticed it but it didn't seem so bad.

Fuckin Ghosts n Goblins

Nice, I was born not too far from Portland but I don't get out there too often, last time was 2013 and before that it was like 1997 or something.

No idea, the drummer in my first band made that in a logdrum-making class when he was like 13 and his parents sent him to jazz camp.

Also I learned today that this sort of thing works WAY better when an actor is in full corpse paint. Oh, and thanks for the compliments! I've only really started to to this stuff seriously pretty recently, when I got the hardware my apartment was so small that I didn't get too deep in to it because it takes a fair amount of space to set the camera(s) and monitor(s) up and all that, and then since I moved into the current place about a year and a half ago I've had space but I've been really focused on music. It's great to get some feedback on it

This is the first time I'd worked with greenscreen footage (although we actually keyed out the greenscreen with black for the actual processing, but did it really quickly so there are a lot of halos around the actors, like in that first screenshot) and having an actor against a blank background is a whole different experience from working with found footage, mostly in a good way. I'd have done more than two passes of processing if there was time and drive space, but we had 40minutes of raw footage, usually I work with maybe 5 minutes at a time and loop it three or four times on each pass, so I still end up with an hour or two of footage, but it will go through more generations of processing. The stuff I did Monday went through five generations but it's harder to post stills from because what's most interesting at that point is how you end up with these really complex, quasi-fractal evolving patterns, and seeing just one frame doesn't really get it across. The avatar I'm using right now was cropped out of a frame from Monday's footage but it took a while to find one that looked interesting on its own.

Te commodore monitor really is fantastic. An old roommate found it and gave it to me around 2011 and a few years later a different roommate gave me an Amiga color monitor that is supposed to be even better but to be honest I'd take the 64 monitor over it any day. The color is just fantastic. I've got to recap both of them this summer just to be on the safe side. EDIT: a few stills from tonight. The colors are VERY vivid on a CRT, but obviously recording to VHS mutes them a lot and also digitizing always mutes them no matter what format, but that fits the look I was after in this case. The only way to actually accurately capture this stuff is to film straight off the CRT in a dark room with an HD camera, preferrably one that has an HDR mode too. But I like the muted VHS look a lot, sometimes the really vivid, sharp image that's on the screen when I'm making this stuff is actually hard to look at.

I should get hold of one of these LED matrix panels, imagine how video feedback would look on one of them!

There are three inputs (A, B and Aux - Aux is video only but otherwise the same as the other two) and two main outputs on the switcher (PGM1 and PGM2, I don't use the monitor out). The top VCR goes into input A, the CCD camera pointed at the Commodore monitor goes into input B, PGM 1 goes out to the second VCR and PGM 2 is fed straight back into aux. For the first stage, I'll use that Avermedia AverKEy300 (cheap VGA to composite/S-VGA/RGB video converter, you can get them for like $10 on eBay and they're REALLY useful), passes through VCR 1 and goes into input 1 of the switcher. Then I improvise, mostly with keying, color correction and a couple of the switcher's effects (strobe, blur and mosaic are really useful in this context, the rest aren't), blending feedback and raw signal, and record that into tape 1 on VCR 2. Then I put the tape 1 into VCR 1 and repeat the process using the output from the first pass as the raw footage for the second pass, which gets recorded on tape 2 in VCR 2. Repeat as many times as I feel like and have time for, then use an actual low end pro deck to dump the tapes to digital at the best quality I can manage and send the footage to the person I'm working with (Monday it was a spec job for an acquaintance in LA, today it was for a music video my downstairs neighbor and a friend in Maine are working on) an let them decide how to mix it back in with the original footage. The raw results look like they belong in the most overblow early 90s EBM video you've ever seen, and after two or three passes most of it has turned completely abstract. I'll post a couple stills after I finish dumping the second tape, I ended up with about 80 minutes of raw footage I need to digitize and convert to DV. It's too bad this stuff is getting more expensive. I put this rig together about 4 years ago and the total cost was right around $180 for everything in the photo plus a really well maintained JVC pro S-VHS VCR an a high end timebase corrector, including shipping.

Video day. Just waiting for the raw footage to arrive and the sun to set and then I'll fire everything up.

Someone I know is selling me an almost unused 2016 laptop so I don't have to budget for replacing my current one (it's almost a decade old and barely works), plus a guy I do work for occasionally in LA asked me to do video effects for a music video he's pitched to an artist I can't name yet, and it's not 100% yet but it's looking more and more likely and I should know within a week or so at most. Between that stuff and my usual spring freelance job and a bunch of extra hours at my day job this month I've got a really good shot at being able to afford a Kijimi PCB set by the end of June. Which would be amazing. Getting parts, having a front panel made, and building the whole thing would take a few months but it would definitely be worth it. Realistically it would be smarter to put the money into a barebones modular video synth with room to grow, since it could actually pay for itself, but forget that, the Kijimi is everything I want in a polysynth and more, and I'd probably be able to sell of about half of my current setup if I had one.

That happened to someone I worked with at my first job when I was in high school (did not happen at work, he just told the story there). Caspaicin is fat soluble, so he cured it by sticking his dick in a tub of sour cream, since it was the first thing he could find.

All the way home the guy behind me on the bus was ripping death farts that burned my soul. No lie I got out of the bus 10 minutes ago and I can still smell them.