warning flashing animations. have a shot everytime you hear arp 2600 instead of atari 2600 Song used in the build :- th-cam.com/video/1MlFDDqYYZI/w-d-xo.html FART BOX PCB's NOW AVAILABLE LIMITED INVERTED RUN :- store.lookmumnocomputer.com/ Stems with 2600 beats and sounds from these takes are available on my patreon :- www.patreon.com/lookmumnocomputer Jamloopy :- hackaday.io/project/171454-jamloopy-for-atari-vcs Synthcart :- atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_detail&p=101 Little Scale A26F :- little-scale.blogspot.com/2008/10/atari-2600-full-midi-interface.html SD Card Cartridge UNO :- thebrewingacademy.com/products/uno-2600-cartridge?fbclid=IwAR3tbJYhOwoTYxKP8xqzA3M1bU-D_SjkIPpmk80zcL8mQEEu6-DcvCu7KCE
Having grown up with an Atari 2600 in the house, the unique sound from it, the waveform, is hardcoded in my brain bits. It is kinda frightening to feel how deep it runs. Thank you Sam for rustling those neurons.
I just realized, one of the big bonuses of making your own music is that you can add it in post production to segments of your vids and it fits perfectly.
Dude, you were making me a bit nervous for a hot minute! When I say you open that console up and stuff I feared that it might get ruined. After all that's an iconic game console but when I saw that you can still play games on it I could relax again. Clearly, you know what you're doing. That's a really cool mod. I never knew you could play music with an Atari too.
The music starting at 13:50 is absolutely incredible. No clue why you wouldn't latch on to that sound and continue forward with it in the video! I'd love a sequel to this if you were to down to give Atari music a second chance.
I never have any fucking idea what's going on in your videos but I can't stop watching them and eventually there's always something spectacular that happens in a flash that makes me realise that's a whole other plane of existence you're living on and it's crazy AF.
Hardest mainstream chiptune platform to use so color me impressed with you making it sing. :) Music tools for the 2600 have evolved a lot since practically no one can make music on it from scratch very well.
remember playing it as a kid, end of 80's, always loved that RAAAAAAAW sound! and yes, my synthcart arrived today so i'm here to say hellooooooooooo, great video
That was so damn cool to watch! There are some other ways to make music too, which involve tracking on a computer first, then compiling as a ROM image. TIAtracker which uses all the limited range of the TIA chip, a bit clunky but it works, great for making tunes for games and demos. TIAtune which is a tool of some sort that converts XM modules to a compatible ROM image. What is nice about this one is, as the name implies, the tuning is actually pretty good since it is generated by the CPU. Literally all the resources are taken for generating music so no video code is left, but definitely good for more in tune stuff :D
This is amazing. I've been working on a trilogy of albums in my head for the last several years...One of the albums deals with the relationship(s) between humans and computers and I want it to have sort a a spacey Flaming Lips vibe, and the Atari 2600 is a fantastic tool for what I'm wanting to accomplish. I ordered the Synthcart from Atari Age...I can't wait to receive it.
11:00 2600 Music? You sir, are INSANE!!! Oh I think I wanna SAMPLE :) (sigghh, I HAD a 2600 - along with a bunch of OTHER Retro toot - til they privatised out Council housing and lost everything in a big nasty illegal eviction - now I have to be a LOT more compact - but your retro toot really DOES make me smile) - ROCK ON
I love the carsy stuff you do with vintage computers & game consoles. I collect & restore vintage computers & its nice to see you put them to a very diffrent uses to what they were designed for.
The vacuum desolder pump is cool. I love how it makes proto-perma pcbs like breadboard again but reliable. The only thing i dislike about that tool is trying to get the glass tube in/out.
Cool , so many atari sounds, to play with. love to tear into one & see what can be done, but I know little about electronic components. Love to watch & learn a bit.
There's multiple versions of the touch pads. I have ones that have much more pronounced buttons that are dome shaped. You can also use the sesame street pads, which makes it fun to play on stage because the pads are so big you can lay them a table and play them.
I love it! That sounds amazing! Started looking for a 2600 agein, but seems only the 4 switch ones are to be found on my local markedplace this time either, and even the 4 switch ones are pretty expensive. I wonder if I could load any of this on my Atari flashback?
I got an AV modded Atari 2600 because 1.) Solder scares me 2.) I wanted to use Synthcart. The rest I didn't know about. Thanks so much! Synthcart is rad but if you want to use it with other gear or even itself you have to record it and then mess with the tuning. That or play along with a synth that can be detuned. The manual is good at showing how many cents everything is off by.
Very cool video Sam! I had the atari synthcart back in my teen years, but I never got a whole lot of musicality out it, besides a few live jams or so. Traded it for a reverb pedal ha. But fast forward to 12 years later, and I still have my atari 2600. I never got anything as musical, and workable as you, but I did find a CV in point where I can inject 2 sequence melodies in from my Korg SQ-1. It also doubles as a really nice scrolly-trip nostalgia video synth that changes according to your sequence too. These things have a lot of potential in them. Thanks for sharing.
I still have the Atari that my parents bought in the early 80s. It has not been plugged in for ages. My crowning achievement was rolling the score on Asteroids.
Nice to see your Korg MS-10 in there... it's kinda funny to me to see it being used to play melodies 'cus mine was my "drum kit" for most of the time I had it.
My Toyshop Trouble game uses C F and G on the saw wave bass, and (g a bb b c d eb e) on a treble voice, and works out sorta well except that the bass g is horribly out. My Stella's Stocking intro game uses a music engine I wrote to achieve four-voice polyphonic music with two volume settings per note and a five octave full chromatic range. Search TH-cam for "Stella's Stocking" to see a short capture off an emulator, and a longer capture off an actual TV (the TV sound is unfortunately rather distorted, but you can hear more of the music).
So he did not destroy or drilled neither slodered crap into the good old Atari 2600? Thats a proper artist with respect towords our electronic history, what a cool guy :)
He did solder in an A/V board and drill holes for the external connections, but he did them well. Not like there's anything else you CAN do to it when all the sound is inside a single chip.
Even more famous than Asteroids is Space Invaders. Also Starmaster is an excellent game as well. I was a bit worried that you were hacking into a classic Heavy Sixer 2600, but alas, that one is the Light Sixer.
When the robots in Berzerk get close to the wall they start generating beats. And then you can add to it by shooting your gun. As long as you turn off evil otto "game 1" and stay on the other side of the wall. You can stand there and collaborate with it. I have a tiny demonstration, my "Disco Berzerk" video. I can't help myself, as I walk through the game. Happens every time. Hehe..
It's really impressive how they managed to get so much out of the old 2600, with zero video RAM, and only 128 bytes of RAM, 2 8x1 bit "sprites" and 2 "1x1" ball objects and a 20bit "background pattern" to draw everything. The book "Racing the Beam" is really interesting if you're interested in how the programmers learned how to abuse the hardware to get really impressive effects and emulate hundreds of sprites 😁
That's at least 4 bytes of video RAM. Racing the beam is the normal way of programming, not abuse. You have to change settings between lines unless you want a vertical resolution of 1 line across the whole screen.
Have you made a Cirklon walkthrough on this channel? I know nothing about it (except it's a powerful sequencer) and I think a lot of your audience would love to see your workflow using it!
warning flashing animations.
have a shot everytime you hear arp 2600 instead of atari 2600
Song used in the build :-
th-cam.com/video/1MlFDDqYYZI/w-d-xo.html
FART BOX PCB's NOW AVAILABLE LIMITED INVERTED RUN :- store.lookmumnocomputer.com/
Stems with 2600 beats and sounds from these takes are available on my patreon :-
www.patreon.com/lookmumnocomputer
Jamloopy :-
hackaday.io/project/171454-jamloopy-for-atari-vcs
Synthcart :-
atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_detail&p=101
Little Scale A26F :-
little-scale.blogspot.com/2008/10/atari-2600-full-midi-interface.html
SD Card Cartridge UNO :-
thebrewingacademy.com/products/uno-2600-cartridge?fbclid=IwAR3tbJYhOwoTYxKP8xqzA3M1bU-D_SjkIPpmk80zcL8mQEEu6-DcvCu7KCE
Ah shit mate I thought I was hearing things
Since Atari did take the 2600 number from ARP, wouldn’t it be great if one could be made to sound like the other?
I thought I was being teased into a LMNC arp 2600....
You should check out cTrix Triple Pump (Atari 2600)
You should do the sega game gear, the sega master system and virtual boy and see how that goes
Having grown up with an Atari 2600 in the house, the unique sound from it, the waveform, is hardcoded in my brain bits. It is kinda frightening to feel how deep it runs. Thank you Sam for rustling those neurons.
Did you steal that shirt off my mum's washing line? Great vid as ever mate.
😂
With that shirt he goes stealth when in front of the kosmo knobs wall ; )
It’s a supreme jacket 😂 i have one too
it came with the Atari...
I just realized, one of the big bonuses of making your own music is that you can add it in post production to segments of your vids and it fits perfectly.
Dude, you were making me a bit nervous for a hot minute! When I say you open that console up and stuff I feared that it might get ruined. After all that's an iconic game console but when I saw that you can still play games on it I could relax again. Clearly, you know what you're doing. That's a really cool mod. I never knew you could play music with an Atari too.
As a child of the 1970's, the sounds here are sooooo familiar in timbre, if not in melody.
It's just mind blowing how crazy your channel is I love it!
You creativity and willingness to share consistently blows my mind!
the Atari 2600 was my first!
Hooked ever since.
You sir are a Mad Musical Instrument Genius!!
Love dropping into your laboratory to see what adventures await.
The music starting at 13:50 is absolutely incredible. No clue why you wouldn't latch on to that sound and continue forward with it in the video! I'd love a sequel to this if you were to down to give Atari music a second chance.
Those are some hyper-brutal sounds. Painfully enjoyable.
Awesome
I never have any fucking idea what's going on in your videos but I can't stop watching them and eventually there's always something spectacular that happens in a flash that makes me realise that's a whole other plane of existence you're living on and it's crazy AF.
4th way to make music: just smack the system to produce a drum beat.
Ya know, it does have some wood on it, and a lot of crevasses, that would probably work well.
Jamloopy is quite an innocent name for that wicked synth :D
Hardest mainstream chiptune platform to use so color me impressed with you making it sing. :) Music tools for the 2600 have evolved a lot since practically no one can make music on it from scratch very well.
Oh so cool ! and from Crystal Castles 🏰
remember playing it as a kid, end of 80's, always loved that RAAAAAAAW sound!
and yes, my synthcart arrived today so i'm here to say hellooooooooooo, great video
The jamloopy thing reminds me of Square pusher's early stuff. Lots of beautiful bleep bloops.
That was so damn cool to watch!
There are some other ways to make music too, which involve tracking on a computer first, then compiling as a ROM image.
TIAtracker which uses all the limited range of the TIA chip, a bit clunky but it works, great for making tunes for games and demos.
TIAtune which is a tool of some sort that converts XM modules to a compatible ROM image. What is nice about this one is, as the name implies, the tuning is actually pretty good since it is generated by the CPU. Literally all the resources are taken for generating music so no video code is left, but definitely good for more in tune stuff :D
As a Retro game collector who spent year's obtaining one of these I have to admit it's cool seeing it taken apart
So cool! I grew up with the Atari 2600. That jam loopy is awesome.
Santa brought me one in 1983! and a C64 in 1987! Addicted I was!!
Yoda are you?
This is amazing. I've been working on a trilogy of albums in my head for the last several years...One of the albums deals with the relationship(s) between humans and computers and I want it to have sort a a spacey Flaming Lips vibe, and the Atari 2600 is a fantastic tool for what I'm wanting to accomplish. I ordered the Synthcart from Atari Age...I can't wait to receive it.
Sensory overload warning @11:02 - Great stuff. subbed after your appearance on RetroManCave
09:50 You have a mission
13:48 you accomplished this mission
The last one reminds me of early Skinny Puppy. Good stuff :)
11:00 2600 Music? You sir, are INSANE!!! Oh I think I wanna SAMPLE :)
(sigghh, I HAD a 2600 - along with a bunch of OTHER Retro toot - til they privatised out Council housing and lost everything in a big nasty illegal eviction - now I have to be a LOT more compact - but your retro toot really DOES make me smile) - ROCK ON
Super creative, man. Love this.
I love the carsy stuff you do with vintage computers & game consoles. I collect & restore vintage computers & its nice to see you put them to a very diffrent uses to what they were designed for.
Ohh it made me so happy to hear you reference little-scale and his work 💕 such an amazing musician and pretty underappreciated tbh
The vacuum desolder pump is cool. I love how it makes proto-perma pcbs like breadboard again but reliable.
The only thing i dislike about that tool is trying to get the glass tube in/out.
Interesting....
God bless youtube for recommend me this chanel.
Thanks Sam this was the usual enjoyable wizardry. I grew up with the 2600, you made it a viable instrument.
Look mum, I'm not saying it's computers, but.... computers!
One day you're going to have to make an orchestra of midi controlled retro computers!
eventually his daughter or son will make a channel called "look dad no ai"
The Atari 2600 or VCS is is hardly a computer, just a game console. No program unless it has a cartridge installed.
Gorillau - you mean a cartridge with a 'Computer' chip?! Don't try and let him off on a technicality-!!!
@@annother3350 I'm not sure where I stand with your fuzzy definition of computer chip.
@@laurenpinschannels or non binary sentient furby organ. the no AI will be ironic.
Loved the vid Sam, keep it up. You're such a cool mastermind.
@6:11 t that pitfall sound is just magic.
That must be what Aphex Twin used 😁 love the 2600! If you need a spare, I have about 5 👍
Awesome. I love unbridled creativity. Rock on sir! 🤘
beautiful that you put daydreamer as a "soundtrack", wow!
loved the lighting in this video
Those old 2600 sounds....part of my childhood. :)
I have the same one since 1982 with most games you have on the table. Nice video Sam thx a lot.
I recommend you to use flux for solder and desolder.
So glad I found this channel, this is pretty awesome. :)
That makes You Atari teenage riot
Well sweet!
Aside from Star Raiders, this is now ANOTHER great reason to pick up a couple of the pads
Cool , so many atari sounds, to play with. love to tear into one & see what can be done, but I know little about electronic components. Love to watch & learn a bit.
HEY you've got a CURE polkadot shirt. found one, & then saw one @ the thrift store, that's been bothering me, I did not buy.
There's multiple versions of the touch pads. I have ones that have much more pronounced buttons that are dome shaped. You can also use the sesame street pads, which makes it fun to play on stage because the pads are so big you can lay them a table and play them.
I love that one. Had one just like that as a kid. Never seen those controllers thogh.
I love it! That sounds amazing! Started looking for a 2600 agein, but seems only the 4 switch ones are to be found on my local markedplace this time either, and even the 4 switch ones are pretty expensive. I wonder if I could load any of this on my Atari flashback?
Sweet baseline there =D Better than most music heard on the 2600 games!
This is insanely fantastic, madly engenius guy
That piece, beginning at 13:48 sounds sick!
Loved it, but did you record a few Atari VCS (2600) music tracks?
I got an AV modded Atari 2600 because 1.) Solder scares me 2.) I wanted to use Synthcart. The rest I didn't know about. Thanks so much! Synthcart is rad but if you want to use it with other gear or even itself you have to record it and then mess with the tuning. That or play along with a synth that can be detuned. The manual is good at showing how many cents everything is off by.
Very cool video Sam! I had the atari synthcart back in my teen years, but I never got a whole lot of musicality out it, besides a few live jams or so. Traded it for a reverb pedal ha. But fast forward to 12 years later, and I still have my atari 2600. I never got anything as musical, and workable as you, but I did find a CV in point where I can inject 2 sequence melodies in from my Korg SQ-1. It also doubles as a really nice scrolly-trip nostalgia video synth that changes according to your sequence too. These things have a lot of potential in them. Thanks for sharing.
you always give good demonstrations.
I still have the Atari that my parents bought in the early 80s. It has not been plugged in for ages. My crowning achievement was rolling the score on Asteroids.
You're beyond good and evil my friend, outstanding.
Been so close to buying one of these. If I knew you could make music with it I woulda been on that!
amazing man
Nice to see your Korg MS-10 in there... it's kinda funny to me to see it being used to play melodies 'cus mine was my "drum kit" for most of the time I had it.
10:56 needs to be a full song! That was some phatass bass.
11:03 I don't think I've ever seen you frown before. It's honestly a bit unsettling XD
Great work as always, though!
imo
Good vid as usual.
Excellent way to chill after last night's neighborhood action here in downtown Chicago.
LMNC is just damn great!
imo
Ooh, not just a sixer, but a heavy sixer! Nice!
pretty cool how the jamloopy has a built-in creepypasta mode
As someone who has done a bit of 2600 programming, I can tell you that the display is a quite brilliant use of its 1-D graphics chip.
8bitwiz correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t 1D mean a single line?
Tricky or not that sounds fucking mental. Love it man.
That one we used to play silly games on at my schoolmate's parents attic 30 years ago ❣️
I think you did very well considering the limitations :)
My Toyshop Trouble game uses C F and G on the saw wave bass, and (g a bb b c d eb e) on a treble voice, and works out sorta well except that the bass g is horribly out. My Stella's Stocking intro game uses a music engine I wrote to achieve four-voice polyphonic music with two volume settings per note and a five octave full chromatic range. Search TH-cam for "Stella's Stocking" to see a short capture off an emulator, and a longer capture off an actual TV (the TV sound is unfortunately rather distorted, but you can hear more of the music).
Do you also go by the name supercat?
@@Longuncattr Yup.
So he did not destroy or drilled neither slodered crap into the good old Atari 2600?
Thats a proper artist with respect towords our electronic history, what a cool guy :)
He did solder in an A/V board and drill holes for the external connections, but he did them well. Not like there's anything else you CAN do to it when all the sound is inside a single chip.
Always wanted to do something like this just dont know where to start. Pure amazing.
That was super fun🎶🕹
man you have some real talent.
Outstanding.
is the best i ever saw maaaan!!! awesoooome!!!
These sounds will cause another video game crash again. Thanks allot mate!
Even more famous than Asteroids is Space Invaders. Also Starmaster is an excellent game as well. I was a bit worried that you were hacking into a classic Heavy Sixer 2600, but alas, that one is the Light Sixer.
Nice Zibra t-shirt, Sam. :)
The paint on your TV is perfect Cyberpunk 2077, the rest is very good too :)
its the tv from an old nasa slow mo camera rig , seems the company who makes the camera rigs didnt use particularly hard wearing paint!
I two of those and owned more than 50 games. I'm so sorry you weren't there to play some games in '78 Sam.
But he makes out like he was around to get one cheap in early 2000s or 90s.
This how crystal castles made their self titled. Shit takes mad skills so thank you for making a video about this
That at the end sounded great.
great video
Dude AVGN should totally do a video on this! He'd have a fun time with it! Cinemassacre! I summon thee!!!!!
Please don't.
The third segment was the best.
Sam has the best Corona hair.
Atari 2600 oh the memories..14:10 Those Macs would swallow your floppy disk and not give you them back...lol
When the robots in Berzerk get close to the wall they start generating beats. And then you can add to it by shooting your gun.
As long as you turn off evil otto "game 1" and stay on the other side of the wall. You can stand there and collaborate with it.
I have a tiny demonstration, my "Disco Berzerk" video.
I can't help myself, as I walk through the game. Happens every time. Hehe..
haha, amazing, didn't even know such cards existed, looks like real fun indeed.
ATARI 2600 was my first Console next sega 16 bit and as last only pc i must say best the old but gold things ;)
It's really impressive how they managed to get so much out of the old 2600, with zero video RAM, and only 128 bytes of RAM, 2 8x1 bit "sprites" and 2 "1x1" ball objects and a 20bit "background pattern" to draw everything. The book "Racing the Beam" is really interesting if you're interested in how the programmers learned how to abuse the hardware to get really impressive effects and emulate hundreds of sprites 😁
That's at least 4 bytes of video RAM. Racing the beam is the normal way of programming, not abuse. You have to change settings between lines unless you want a vertical resolution of 1 line across the whole screen.
I’ve said it b4 but you sir have skills!
Awesome as always.
My first game computer! My mom bought it for us but we ended up fighting with her about who could play because she got addicted to Pac Man :-D
Have you made a Cirklon walkthrough on this channel? I know nothing about it (except it's a powerful sequencer) and I think a lot of your audience would love to see your workflow using it!
I’m quick! Love you man
Wood looks great on consoles
13:24 - a new challenge - made a midi controller out of a pillar drill! thats real Author and Punisher territory there!
Love the music!!!