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bgconway

Sun, 28 Apr 2024 23:07:14 UTC

I wanted to try making a program that would display Conway's Game of Life as a background. Unfortunately it causes a few mouse trails, but I don't think they're too noticeable. If they're too bothersome, try changing the "S" scaling variable to 6 or higher. Higher numbers give better speed (and thus less mouse trails), but also lower the resolution and the average time until equilibrium. I almost certainly could have implemented this better so feel free to do what you want with it!

Idiots

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:03:06 UTC

idiots

by IMLXH

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I don't know why I made this. I went in with no plan and it sure shows. I might update this at some point once I get any more ideas of dumb things I could do with it

Pocket Calculator

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 17:29:03 UTC

pocketcalc

by IMLXH

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Welp, here's my first "big" project! I knew immediately after bikibird released Speako-8 that I would have to make something with it, and so I decided to make it a tribute to a certain departed musical legend and fellow speech synthesis nerd. (Also THANKS SO MUCH to bikibird for helping out with playtesting and debugging a LOT of it)

That said, I'm not sure how well it will run online or on other people's machines, so if anything's buggy or could be improved, feel free to let me know!

trumpet fight

Sun, 28 Aug 2022 05:21:52 UTC

trumpetfight

by IMLXH

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this is the first thing i've made with p8 that can be called a "game". it's awful

UPDATE: now with motion borders and an actual difficulty curve! doug's AI is still a 50/50 drunk-walk though but idk maybe thats kinda hilarious? or my sense of humor is entirely broken, which is also a possibility.

Phonemes

Sat, 30 Oct 2021 17:34:43 UTC

phonemes

by IMLXH

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More experiments from reading over H2Obsession's deconstruction of SAM. I also attempted to implement more phonemes than this, but not all of them sounded right.

Vowel Synthesizer

Tue, 26 Oct 2021 21:28:46 UTC

So since I can't get the idea of a Software Automatic Mouth port for Pico-8 out of my head, I experimented with trying to generate similar sounds in bytebeat, and I ended up with something that aaalmostkindasorta makes vowels?

Most research courtesy of H2Obsession: https://sites.google.com/site/h2obsession/CBM/C128/SAM-128/technical

vowels

by IMLXH

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Bury Me With My Money

Sun, 17 Oct 2021 07:00:39 UTC

bury

by IMLXH

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PICO-8 PCM COLAB: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1HyiciemxfCDS9DxE98UCtNXas5TrM-5e?usp=sharing

So after reading carlc27843 and czarlo's explanations of how to digitize audio for Pico-8, I wanted to see if I could make things a little bit easier on myself by making a Colab to automate the process. Hope this is useful to someone!

Waveform drawing?

Fri, 12 Jun 2020 17:35:42 UTC

Hey, I'm not sure if this is the right category to post this in, but as an Audio Guy I'm intrigued by the possibility of direct control of Pico-8's DAC? (Then again, I'm not entirely certain whether Pico-8 HAS a DAC, or just a sample playback routine that goes directly to the host machine's DAC.) Either way, I have found the possibility of "user waveform" slots (a la the Namco Custom30) in Pico-8 to be pretty intriguing. Many old microcomputer systems have had some form of exploit or another to directly control the DAC (this is famously how sampled sound and digitized speech could be played back on the C64). Theoretically, would this be possible in Pico-8, or will its architecture not allow it?

Keyboard input?

Tue, 28 Feb 2017 22:53:03 UTC

I'm curious if there are plans for a "devkit keyboard" ability for p8? It would make it feel more like a microcomputer than a console, but I think some very interesting stuff could be made that involves text input.

Speech Synthesis Attempt 1

Wed, 23 Sep 2015 17:42:39 UTC

Speech Synthesis Attempt 1 1

by IMLXH

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This is the first thing I did in PICO-8. It's not so much a "game" as it is a proof of concept and an attempt to figure out what all this "machine" is capable of with a little inginuity. It...doesn't sound CLEAR, but it kinda sounds like speech, so I'll take that as a success at this point!