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Basement Adventures
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I build silly little electronics projects. Not because I always have a clear idea of what I'm doing, it's simply because learning is a lot of fun - sometimes scary and hopefully won't set my desk on fire (again). Most of my work will be within the field of retro-computing in some way, but I have also been known to fire up a vintage gaming console from time to time.
BulkyMIDI-32 ExModule
While the BulkyMIDI-32 started out as a piece of hardware based on the MT32-PI, software for emulating the Roland MT-32, the ExModule on the other hand is a way of using modern Wavetable-modules in a standalone manner. Mostly because I realized that the version I have of the AWE32 soundcard didn't actually have a Wavetable-header, so I built something to use them anyway! And that's the ExModule. Simply staring at a single solid LED wouldn't be the most entertaining thing to look at, so I put the Channel Monitor underneath it.
For even more documentation, schematics, design files and everything you'd ever need in order for you to build one for yourself (just make sure that you view the BOM ...
For even more documentation, schematics, design files and everything you'd ever need in order for you to build one for yourself (just make sure that you view the BOM ...
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Purple Ghost Controller
Просмотров 945 месяцев назад
I opened the box, I went down the hole, and now my controller now longer matches the Gamecube I took a screwdriver to in a previous episode. That was the Purple Ghost Gamecube, so let's see if an old man on a new basement adventure can change out the shell without messing up anything. As most of what I do is done on a small budget, everything was bought directly from China and AliExpress instea...
Blasting away with the Sinden Lightgun
Просмотров 9355 месяцев назад
... or at least trying to. A game of tempering expectations, ditching initial plans in favour of others before finally going with a known good option. It's not the destination. It's what you see along the way that matters. Growing up, I didn't have access to arcades, so in terms of gameplay - it always came down to what kind of entertainment that you could drum up at home. Except for one weeken...
Purple Ghost Gamecube
Просмотров 3146 месяцев назад
Sitting in a box, neglected since before the age of Covid - it's my imported Japanese Gamecube. It was meant to be a spare, but it only spoke japanese and the case was cracked. Also, the seller described it as a "junk console" so I probably expected a bit too much. Time to look into the future-tech of a few years ago, get that nasty fan sorted out and see if we can't find a way to resurrect it ...
2023 in DIY
Просмотров 467 месяцев назад
Another year, another year of messing around with various things connected to power. Let's see what I've been doing with my life. DIY things. Feel free to skip around if there's something specific you want to look at. While I hope to do proper videos of most of them over time, time is a finite resource - so at the moment, this is what you get until then. Enjoy! 00:21 Introduction 00:59 BulkyMID...
Three Modules for Christmas (BulkyMIDI-32, MT-32, SC-88ST)
Просмотров 617 месяцев назад
From Sierra, their original 1992 Christmas Card, as made available for download via ScummVM homepage. Three recordings made using different MIDI-modules: BulkyMIDI-32, Roland SC-88ST and finally a real Roland MT-32. If you would like to try out the demo for yourself, it's available for download at www.scummvm.org/demos/#sierra. If you're not familiar with the BulkyMIDI-32 it's because it isn't ...
Pi1541-III - Setting it up
Просмотров 59611 месяцев назад
Did the world really need yet another Pi1541-variant? Probably not. Did I have fun while assembling it in a previous episode? Definitely. For everyone wondering about how to set it up, how to format the SD-card to a file system that works with Raspberry Pi and which settings do what exactly - then this is your episode is for you! While some of this will be relevant for any Pi1541, we'll be focu...
New C64 keys!
Просмотров 8211 месяцев назад
I've got some new keys for the C64, bought and paid for in a previous life. Let's find a suitable C64, strip it down and get those installed onto there. As far as I'm aware, new key sets will eventually be sold over on www.cbmstuff.com once every backer have received their sets. 00:00 Introduction 01:59 Installing them 05:46 Typing test 06:00 What I thought about it 06:26 Outro
Pi1541-III - Assembling one
Просмотров 89811 месяцев назад
Did the world really need yet another Pi1541-variant? Probably not. Did I have fun making it? Definitely. And because I couldn't possibly see myself building one for someone else, I'm sharing all of the design files and resources so that you can easily build one for yourself. While I hope that at least some of the puns in this video are actually funny to someone that isn't me, I at least hope t...
BulkyMIDI-32 - Setting it up
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The BulkyMIDI-32 is a little project that I put together in order to build the hardware for the MT32-PI solution, a piece of software running on top of a Raspberry Pi - what it provides is an affordable standalone device that can emulate the classic Roland MT-32 MIDI-module as well as being able to cover just about anything from the era of General MIDI. It's perfect for getting the best soundin...
OnTrack Disk Manager - Installation and then living with it
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I had an idea that I would attempt to rebuild the first computer that I bought for myself, meaning that I would scour the Internet looking for the exact same motherboard and graphics card that I had back then. Turns out that not many went out of their way to save the cheapest of hardware known to the depths of the 90s, using it came with some rather interesting limitations as well - it was one ...
BulkyMIDI-32 - Assembling one
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The BulkyMIDI-32 is a little project that I put together in order to build the hardware for the MT32-PI solution, a piece of software running on top of a Raspberry Pi - what it provides is an affordable standalone device that can emulate the classic Roland MT-32 MIDI-module as well as being able to cover just about anything from the era of General MIDI. It's perfect for getting the best soundin...
BulkyMIDI-32 - Introduction to MT32-PI
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Christmas 2021 I stumbled across the MT32-PI project by Dale Whinham and I knew that it was time, I was going to take the leap into everything MIDI. The fact that I didn't have a shred of musicality shouldn't stop me from enjoying my good old games with MIDI-modules, even if I did *ahem* need to buy a few just for comparing a real MT-32 to the MT32-PI. Along the way I built my own version of th...
RetroPanel (Revision A, RS-232 testing)
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RetroPanel (Revision A, RS-232 testing)
BulkyMIDI-32 (revision D): E1M1 (OmegaGMGS2)
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BulkyMIDI-32 (revision D): E1M1 (OmegaGMGS2)
BulkyMIDI-32 (revision D): E1M1 (eawpats)
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BulkyMIDI-32 (revision D): E1M1 (eawpats)
Norwegian TV2 Teletext (page 774, 30. september 1998)
Просмотров 2552 года назад
Norwegian TV2 Teletext (page 774, 30. september 1998)
ZX Spectrum +3 Robocop (after audio fix)
Просмотров 653 года назад
ZX Spectrum 3 Robocop (after audio fix)
Can you shareschenatic and code for external dreamblaster please
Dreamblaster was bought from serdaco, I don't think it's an open project.
Canyon.mid !!!
i have all the parts stil need to make mine 😅
This was exactly my first computer... The memories!
I need to build a mt43 for my setup
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Me again. Sorry to bug you but this is my first project and I am having problem sourcing oled display, at lease here in NZ. Biggest one I found is 25mm x 20mm but that is too small width wise. Any chance you can post link of your display in video so I know what to look for?
This is the listing from one of my orders, make sure to pick the 4pin version. Colour is more a matter of preference. Just found this amazing item on AliExpress. Check it out! NOK21.00 19%OFF | 1.3" OLED Module 1.3 inch Display Module White/Blue 128X64SPI/IIC I2C Communicate Color 1.3 Inch OLED LCD LED Display Module a.aliexpress.com/_EyVR38t
@@TEBLify Thank you heaps.
@@TEBLify Assembled, set up and working like an charm:) Thank you.
Batocera machine worked out of the box and i was playing duck hunt within 10 minutes of unboxing the SINDEN
Yes, Batocera is on my list to check out things further - just need to get hold of a mini-PC as there things that won't run on a Pi.
I just bought kit from PCB Way. For capacitor it only specify 470uf but not voltage. Would capacitor 25v 470uf be sufficient? Many thanks.
That would be fine. It should only see 5v, so 25 would be plenty - it may mean that it's physically larger in size, but would work just the same.
@@TEBLify It is 8mm in diameter, same size as circle on the boar so it will be perfect fit:)
keep up
my Thinkpad 560 has a 4 GB HDD limit and i had to use ontrack to get the 32 GB kingspec SSD working on there, i used vmware to get 95C installed to it. that laptop is pretty much good other than it coming with a dead cmos battery and a dead 2 GB HDD and some minor plastic damage, and best of all, it came with a TFT screen
At some point we all probably need to start looking at SSDs to keep things alive as spinning disks eventually stop - well - spinning. OnTrack was endlessly confusing to me as a child, but sometimes the hobby is about conquering old foes 😅
@@TEBLify or just get the click of death or make other terrible noises
Happy new year @teblify! Still loving my BulkyMidiTower!
Happy new year!!
Lol, your videos are always so sweet and funny 😂
Just build the BE6502 according your links for the PCB’s. Rev. A with extra resistor on BE. Thank you!
Happy New Year!
Happy new year Hans!
Thank you for your contributions to the retro computer community. I have built several of your Pi1541-II units and they are in almost constant use. I was considering modifying the design slightly by using vertical tactile switches with long stems so they can be accessed via matching holes in the top panel.. very much like the Reset switch on your XUM1541-II design. This change would allow you to press the switches on the Pi1541-II and not have the unit move across the desk. I think I might build some Pi154-III units instead! 🙂
My first PC was a Copam 386SXB-25. It looked exactly like yours! It came with a 3.5" floppy drive, 120 MB Conner hard drive, 4 MB RAM and an unbranded 14" SVGA monitor. Cost me NOK 13,000 in september 1992, which today equals about NOK 26,000 or USD 2,500. It was only slightly more expensive than my Amiga 500 with monitor that I got in 1990. My sole reason for giving up the Amiga was that it ran Railroad Tycoon way too slow! 😀 Had great fun with it until it was replaced by a Pentium 66 Mhz in 1995.
You can also replace those 2 large brown film caps in the upper right corner next to the inductor with 2 new tiny small TDK film caps.
I've never had a problem with those, is there a purpose to changing them beyond aesthetics?
Thanks TEBL! I've built some of your PI-1541 II which are fantastic! Might look at building some of these as well. Thanks again for sharing 👏👏👏
Hei Tor !
Hei Hans Petter 😀
That looks great, I'm hoping to do something similar soon but fitting in a broken 1541and replacing the 5 1/4 drive with the Pi
I think that's a great project, especially now that the mechanisms themselves have started to disappear from the markets completely. Think I'd build put direct 1581 replacement into a case, mainly just because there's so much room in them - would be weird, but fun 😅
In the tech world's nostalgic archives, Floppy drives with their quaint, whirring vibes. With disks that were small, They would waltz, they would crawl, Data danced in their magnetic tribes!
does this bulky midi also emulate the roland cm 50/55 or mt 32 only ?
I believe there are soundfonts available that'll approximate those, as to how accurate they are - you'd probably need to talk to someone with a better ear for such things than I have.
to use your BulkyMIDI-32 i need this isa card ?
It is one of the ways of using on an old PC, an alternative is a soundcard with either 5-pin MIDI ports in a drive-bay expansion or via the gameport. By building up an extras board you can use it via 9-pin serial port. On a modern system you can use it with USB MIDI adapter.
where do i get the midi pc card ?
on the main pcb it says sw1 sw2 sw3 and sw4 are these option or a mistake ? and there is also j4 /in the asembly video you made you dont use these ,but there are on the bom list SW1-SW4 *2 6x6x5mm right-angle momentary button
Alternative ways of assembly, if front panel is not installed - switches for controlling it can be installed here instead. J4 was an option for earlier revisions, but I've not updated the faceplate for it (I don't know anyone who built that version of it, so probably won't get done).
@@TEBLify can you link the part on ENC1 its not listed on the bom file thanks
on your bom list it says ENC1 5-pin right angle pin header < that needs to be some kind of pot ,can you share the correct part thanks
If installing a front-panel you'll be installing something like the 20mm part listed below on it. Without it you can still use the same part, but the connector is just somewhere to plug the cable (at that point it is assumed you're building your own case and installing it somewhere on it). For neither option, you're looking at installing switches instead.
iam ordering all the parts,question j5 and j6 are for external devices correct so its not realy needed ?
You generally won't need those, one is a breakout for a serial adapter (a low cost alternative to using a somewhat cheap 5pin MIDI adapter. The other is a breakout for a MIDI-thru port, I've never had a use it for it as there are always other options.
why are my comments being removed ? the pcb i bought looks difrent than the github picture the one on github has 2 extra leds
I have not removed any comments, but it may have been caught in a spam-filter of some kind. When I did the redesign to have a dedicated front-panel, the power LED was moved here from the separate extras-module. This also moved the OLED to the middle instead of being on the left.
@@TEBLify so i think i have printed the correct pcb than revision E thanks ,🤓
on the pcb it says revision E
Great stuff! I have the previous version with the push buttons and i love it. Such versatile little device. Congrats
i just finished the gameblaster clone ,next thing to build is this bulkymidi
I didn't know a clone of one was available, I may have to look into building one for myself once winter rolls in 😀
@@TEBLify card works perfect
I love this crazy idea! Does it display the bus frequency correctly and support Pentium III with a maximum of over 1GHz?
It is can't do so automatically, but you can hook it up to one of the COM-ports and send commands to it - you can use one of them to set the display to 1000 if thar is what you want.
Or a pure CPLD high frequency counter on board? (github.com/aelfimow/frequency-counter-2)
Thanks for the video, i went and purchased it !
Thank you for the kind comment, I hope that you'll enjoy it 😀
Hi, I'm planning to get the parts to make one of these, but I have a couple of questions about programming the EEPROM: Is the 28c64.bin file on the RC-ONE Github the file that needs to be programmed to the EEPROM? Could the 28C64/28C256 EEPROM be substituted with a 27C64/27C256 EPROM? Thanks!
Yes, the file mentioned is the one to start with. I can't really remember the differences between the chips, but it I think you can substitute one simply by setting up the jumpers marked a13/a14.
the files you uploaded have no size in them ? you can chek your self via pcbway or jlc they both ask for size of the pcb front panel etc etc
I just checked the shared PCBWay projects and the sizes were detected correctly (100x100 for most, 100x35 for Faceplate FP2). Are you sure that what you're uploading are gerber files? The repository only contains the KiCAD source files and as such they're a different format entirely.
can you make a seperate github please with all the correct files only for this midi device ,i download the zip from the link and its full of folders with multiple hardware projects software pictures etc thanks
See response for previous comment. In general I don't include gerber files anymore, just links to shared projects as it is usually the only way I get anything back for the work that I do.
?? what does it do
Modern cases seem to lack more and more switches and LEDs found on older AT-cases, so made PC drive bay module to add them back in. Smart powee switch also make the regular ATX powee switch work as expectex with AT motherboards. And there's a tuebo-switch with Mhz-display, so that you can put Hi/Lo or the expected value on it.
Oh, nice! I was not aware that you have a RUclips channel. A lot of nice projects there!
The channel has mostly just been snippets as part of the documentation for various things, but I thought I'd start doing a little soldering videos here and there. At least until I get a handle on the whole video-editing thing 😀
I'm currently building my first BulkyMIDI-32 with extension board. Great stuff! I also only found your YT channel today by accident and had to subscribe! I will probably contact you again via Github with a report of my build. :-)
I always like seeing people taking the time to build my designs, it makes the time spent making documentation in a shareable state worth it. Take pictures :-)
Impressive 👍
More than two people :D This was a great and interesting video! Well done!
Brilliant projects, many thanks for sharing.
Can you do all the programming via a serial port rather than buttons?
The computer doesn't have a serial port, but the bus headers provide sufficient signals to add one - then it'd just be a case of modifying the ROM to use it. Alternatively one could probably use an Arduino to hit the buttons in a specific sequence though that's also a DIY kind of option.
@@TEBLify Yes, that seems like a good solution. I was thinking of adding a 6850 chip but using the Arduino is probably much easier.
Cool!
Nice! Do you have a write-up on the channel monitor using the Arduino? I'm building my own MIDI mountain and this would be a nice addition :)
I seem to have fallen a bit behind on documenting things, but the schematic (github.com/tebl/BulkyMIDI-32/blob/main/documentation/schematic/BulkyMIDI-32%20Channel%202.pdf) and source code is available (github.com/tebl/BulkyMIDI-32/tree/main/software/arduino/ChannelMonitor). The circuit is pretty simple as it uses ready-made libraries to decode the messages, I used a Pro Micro in particular since it has an extra HW UART as I find that works better. Could probably simplify the LEDs to skip the transistors, I just had that from copying the first channel monitor schematic.
Not the original AST installation, since the AST SPOT seems not to be running :(
I don’t think this would have come with Win95. I had a 6050d, very similar to this but 50MHz, it was a DOS/Win3.1 machine sold in early 1995.
Nostalgic sound from that harddrive starting up. Similar to the AST advantage 611s i had as a kid. What model is your harddrive?
They have a power button!
Is there anyplace to purchase the Extras-Board? Or is that a thing you have to assemble your self only? I recently got a Bulky Midi-32 from Tindie. And I really like the idea of adding the Extras Board to it.
There haven't been much of an interest in my little project, so I was surprised to hear anyone was building or even selling them. Anyway, I think your only option is probably sourcing the parts and building one unless the original seller is able to provide one. My github at github.com/tebl/BulkyMIDI-32 has all of the KiCAD design files, pcbway links points to my last tested version of thr PCB. While the unit itself has changed over time, the interface between them has stayed the same - so you should be able to use the updated extras-board with it.
@@TEBLify I think your project is the best MT-32 Pi project out there, yet somehow it seems completely unknown. How is there nothing about it on Vogons? I'm planning to build one in the near future.
@@mrb5217 Thank you for the kind comment, a lot of work has gone into creating it. I don't have the capacity to build or sell kits due to my health, so there haven't been much publicity for for it beyond a few posts here and there though I'm hoping that people will share what they built over time. The shortage of Raspberry Pis have also had a huge impact on the MT32-PI in general. I've wanted to do a special version with the Pi Zero 2 since it launched as, but I've yet to see one for sale. Thankfully, the Raspberry Pi 3 have started to show up again.