taizou @lion@computerfairi.es
Joined Jun 2017
taizou
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Okay, here's a long shot for the #Fedi hive mind. If you are in the intersection of "#musician or musician-adjacent in the 1980s" and "keyboard / #synthesizer aficionado", this one is for you.
In the mid- to late-80s, I used to spend a lot of time in music / #instrument stores (not selling CDs, selling guitars and amps and drums and whatnot). Synthesizer tech was advancing rapidly at this point, with digital starting to overtake analog by leaps and bounds.
At some point, one of the stores got a new #keyboard model in. I can't swear to it, but I think it was either a #Roland or a #Korg. This one had a floppy drive built in, on the side of the #synth. And they had a demo on a floppy disk that was incredible at the time.
It wasn't an official #demo disk. It was a normal consumer floppy, presumably copied far and wide. Hand-Sharpied on it was the name/title "Amin Phone". It was a musical, bright and upbeat piece, rock/pop, maybe 30s long, and included digital samples of a person's voice.
The entire thing was a ridiculous #answering machine outgoing #message. I think there was even a sampled voice at the end taken from someone leaving a message, commenting on it being over-the-top or something.
"Amin phone" is unsearchable on the 'net. Everyone has a phone, and there are millions of people named Amin or el-Amin.
Anyone else remember this? Anyone actually able to point to a recording of it?
#KeyboardDemo #SynthDemo #AminPhone #Amin #AnsweringMachine #FloppyDisk
every furry who has ever passed through spitalfields market has probably taken a picture of these. i know i have. i might've even posted them before
more pics from regent's park. wasn't intending to go there but I had to get the tube nearby & I was like fuck it I'll go to the park first
taizou
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Went to a Boba shop and unexpectedly ran into this old friend!
It's Dig Dug himself!
Mr Driller's dad!
I'm watching this jet lag the game episode & the subtitles have furigana for how they're mispronouncing European place names
Completely coincidental timing since I ordered them at the end of March but these 2 just arrived from Japan. RIP Kishimoto-san 🫡
taizou
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Just gonna be a cozy bunny today! 🐰
Arts by Skylar (https://skylarshibe.com/)
Unfortunately unlike similar devices this does NOT seem to have a standard SD card file browser, or at least the trigger for it is different. The menu for the 1000 in 1 is hardcoded & the stock card files are obfuscated, so you could swap out the roms if you can find them but not change the names
well this card is full of half regular old pirated NES ROMs with names round-trip translated and truncated so you can barely tell what they are. The other half is a lot of anything scraped from anywhere including plenty of classic crude romhacks
This is one of the fairly rare models of VT-series enhanced famiclone that supports loading ROMs from a MicroSD card. In fact it comes with a suspicious unmarked card labelled as "for testing only". Hmm
we already have a source on the music lol it's from Time is All We Need by Jessica Jay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4F0rX_82t0
Joined Jun 2017
