Category: homebrew
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Betablocker DS: Table feedback after Claudius Maximus
After getting some dates for gigs with Betablocker DS, I am spending some time looking into audio algorithms, and implementing them on the Gameboy DS. Last Thursday I spent some time at the TAI studio/bunker with Till Bovermann investigating these PD patches by Claudius Maximus: The algorithm uses feedback to create sounds that take some…
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PS2 vu1 rendering
Some more work on upcycling second hand PS2’s into cheap fluxus machines. The next step is to embrace the vector units – strange little processors for doing things with points lines and colours extremely fast. This is quite a daunting task for various reasons, not only can you run floating point and integer calculations in…
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Rainy sunday
A rainy Sunday, with only the dog for company, so in between walks I thought I’d try and learn some assembler. I’ve been unhappy with triggering samples with Betablocker DS (I prefer synthesis) and I’ve heard good things about ARM asm – so it seemed like a good opportunity to attempt a small, fast and…
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PS2 homebrew #5
Getting stuff to work on PS2 wasn’t quite as easy as I probably made it sound in the last homebrew post. The problem with loading code from usb stick is that there is no way to debug anything, no remote debugging, no stdout – not even any way to render text unless you write your…
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PS2 homebrew #4
Getting things to render on the PS2 is a little more complicated than using OpenGL and it’s also a very different system to a PC. On the right you can see a block diagram of the Emotion Engine – it consists of the EE core, the CPU on the left and the GS – Graphics…
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PS2 homebrew #3
The next thing I wanted to do was see if I could compile the minimal android version of fluxus for the PS2. All the PS2SDK examples are written in C, and when I tried the C++ compiler at link time I got a bunch of these odd errors: ps2-main.cpp: undefined reference to `__gxx_personality_v0′ It turns…
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PS2 homebrew #2
Once you have a system for running unauthorised code, you can test it with some well used homebrew – I used uLaunchElf for this purpose. Using swapmagic you need to put the executable on your usb stick called SWAPMAGIC/SWAPMAGIC.ELF and it should boot automatically. Not all usb sticks work, I had to try a few…
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PS2 homebrew #1
Reuse is the better form of recycling, and the machines that we all increasingly use are fabulous concoctions of various plastics, metals and ceramic compounds. It’s simply shortsighted to treat them as throwaway items. With this in mind, and lacking a computer I can use at gigs with a GPU for a while now, I…