I’m a geek, you’re a geek, we’re all geeks.
And geeks automatize everything, including lights in their lounges.
Today we explore a way to copy RGB settings between two entities in Home Assistant
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Category: Geek lounge
Where do you spend the most time (besides in bed and at work?)
In the main technology room. Audiovideo devices, game consoles, couch… best have it decorated appropriately. After all, geek is the new chic.
Linus Akesson’s C=Tar
I’m a geek, you’re a geek, we’re all geeks.
And Linus Akesson is a very geeky music youtuber that plays music with the Commodore 64.
But not in the traditionnal method of composing a SID tune and playing it back; he builds instruments around the computer and plays them.
His youtube channel is filled with music-related videos with various incarnation of a Commodore-based instrument – theremin, accordion, organ…
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I Adore my 64
I’m a geek, you’re a geek, we’re all geeks.
And these geeks talks about the geeks who likes the geeky retro Commodore 64.
A geek movie, by geeks, for geeks, that is in need of geek funding
The Commodore 64, the best-selling home computer in all of history, is finally getting the attention it deserves.
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A new film is being developed about the 64, its incredible impact in the home computer revolution and the community that still loves it today. Be a part of the effort!
I adore my 64 crowdfunding
More information and possibility to pledge – on the I adore my 64, the movie (seedandspark crowdfunding)
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I adore my 64, the movie (seedandspark crowdfunding)
10 minute preview of the upcoming movie (YouTube)
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What happens in the arcade…
I’m a geek, you’re a geek, we’re all geeks.
And 10 years ago, geeks were talking about making arcade control panels.
While arcade has drastically decreased in popularity since the 1980s, they are still widely regarded as the summum of geek videogames. There are multi-platform machines, emulation…
Did the arcade world evolved in the last decade?
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Stereo Commodore 64
I’m a geek, you’re a geek, we’re all geeks
and geeks enjoy their old games and computers on modern equipment.
In the eighties, most television sets were mono. So gaming aparitus and computers of the time were also mono. But modern televisions are at least stereo, and often cinema-style ambiophonic…
The commodore 64 uses what was revolutionary at the time, the “Sound Interface Device” – SID chip, for short.
The SID chip is capable to play 3 different voices simultaneously, and add filtering to the audio output, which makes for a remarquable audio quality, much more advanced than most of what was avaiable at the time.
Only issue (for modern times) is that it has only one channel. Mono. non-stereo. Being that the audio quality is rather advanced, audio snippets have been extracted from games for years in “SID files” and enjoyed by geeks – in mono.
In addition to outputting audio from the computer, the SID chip’s analog inputs are used to control paddle inputs from the game port, which is used for some game or as a mouse pointing device.
Is there a way to get the Commodore 64 to output in stereo?
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