Warhawk [C64] music on TI-82 Calculator - HoustonTracker 2
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2024
- This is a TI-82 remake of the Commodore 64 soundtrack for the game Warhawk, originally composed by Rob Hubbard in 1986. It is programmed down to the deepest details on a Texas Instruments TI-82 graphing calculator using “HoustonTracker 2”.
I start with a tech dive into how sound is generated on Commodore 64 and the TI calculator (which doesn’t have a sound chip) as well as 1-bit music in general. Then the song appears, including a custom-written visualiser that I made.
0:00 Welcome
0:20 Commodore 64 & SID
0:58 Texas Instruments TI-82
1:27 1-bit audio on TI-82
2:04 Pulse Interleaving
2:57 HoustonTracker 2 overview
3:47 Warhawk background
4:08 HoustonTracker 2 startup on TI-82
5:58 Warhawk performed on TI-82
HoustonTracker2:
* irrlichtproject.de/houston/
Warhawk on C64 by Rob Hubbard:
* • C64 Rob Hubbards "Warh...
Unknown Planet by John Keating:
* • John Keating - The Unk...
#commodore64 #houstontracker #calculator #1bitmusic #robhubbard
Whoa. I sat next to Rob Hubbard when I started working at EA back in 1995! 😮 #Legend
Wow, impressive! Did you also make music there? I have a few more Hubbard tunes on the channel as well if you like this one.
@@tubesockor I was just a junior game tester working on one of the PlayStation launch titles at EA. I had no idea at the time what a legend he was!
Fantastic! Warhawk is also one of my favourite C64 tracks. Rob Hubbard is a great composer.
Thanks a lot, yes - mine as well! And he sure is :)
Man, once you dropped the beat, I had a massive belly laugh. That is some impressive work!
Hehe, thanks!
This is exactly the kind of bollocks that we need more of. Great stuff!
Thanks! High five to the bollocks!
Wow. Stunning. Really fun! The modification of the waves reminds me very to PD (Phase Distortion) on the Casios CZs.
Glad that you liked it! Technically it is very different from the CZs :)
Following my comment from 7 months ago... Yep, I'm still listening to this banger.
Hehe, I remember - that chilipepper need :)
You, my good man, are a true Maestro! Well explained and beautifully realized! Bravo! I'm utterly astonished by what's possible with these old calculators.
Thank you! Happy that it gave some kind of joy :)
Seriously awesome dude! You blew my mind to the moon and back with this!! Well done :)
Oh yeah, thanks a lot!
I'm an absolute lover of chiptune but my ears hurt from the grainy noise on this :'D
I guess that's just what you get with 1-bit synths, but it won't stop me from listening to this cover on loop!
He, it is a bit like eating hot chilipepper - it kind of hurts and is not for everybody, but when you like it you just need more :)
Endless respect!
Thank you! :)
I know Warhawk by heart and Converted it to Amiga Deltamusic back in the day - your work is simply awesome ;)
Thanks! Ah, Delta Music - I don’t think I tried that one in my Amiga days.
Amazing !!! A clean mp3 export would be greatly appreciated
Thanks! I've just uploaded it to my SoundCloud account and its available for download there!
WOW thanks so much for explaining 1-bit audio :)
You’re welcome :)
This is awesome - you must have four ears :) thanks so much for sharing - great channel
Thanks! Took a while to do it, but was a lot of fun! And more fun will appear :)
As a fellow, boundary pushing nerd, I immediately subbed. I was bobbing my head to this so hard.
Absolutely amazing. Very well done and thank you for the Bop. ❤️
Thank you! Happy to hear that!
Thank God someone is giving this bit of software some recognition. Not trying to throw it any shade, but it's a great poor-man's LSDj.
Yeah, HT2 is a great piece of software! Remarkable easy to use as well, I think.
Wow
Wow. Even more off beat and amazing than the Imperial March on a Toaster!
Haha, thanks!
Great work !
Thank you!
we gonna need oscilloscope video of this
If you wish it enough, it might happen :)
I generally didn't understand about 90% of what you said, however I'm just barely tech-savvy enough to know what you just did was amazing.
Thanks a lot!
this is very impressive
Thank you!
Absolute amazing!! An honest question I need to know the answer to: This vs a TE Pocket Operator? I love music and I love calculators, this is one of the coolest videos I have ever seen!
Thanks a lot! Well, for practical reasons and live playing I would say a PO - but for challenging fun (or if on a budget), a TI-82 is not so bad :)
That is amazing!!! My cousin wrote a scene-style demo for the HP-48G a long time ago. :D I wonder if he still has it.
Thanks! Yes, there was somewhat big calculator scene some years ago. The TI-82 was one of the popular ones, but hacks for many calcs exists.
before the smartphone was a smart calculator
I assure you, those calculators are dumb as hell, the more you learn about them, the more this becomes evident
Very impressiv!
Thanks!
Just stumbled upon this, this should have much more views!
Great stuff and just amazing what can be done by this little Z80 powered calculator and ASM code!
Happy you like it! Yeah, it is hard to please ”The Algoritm”... But keep on watching and subscribing and we’ll see! :) More stuff will appear!
Absolutely stunning! You nailed it, thank you for doing this!!!
Thanks a lot Kristian!
Glad you alive man. Where i can read more about Pulse Interleaving?
Alive and kicking, thanks! :) But yes, it's been a while since last video. Will try to make up for it in the future :) For more details about P.I. , there is some text written in the HoustonTracker manual for example.
Coolest thing I've seen for a while! Amazing!
Thank you! Was fun to make!
Thats incredible. Superb work.
Thanks a lot, Lee!
that got real fast
Letting that little Z80 CPU do some work :)
Insane ✌️ great work !!
Yay, thanks!
Impressive! Really nice work!
Thank you!
THAT COVER WAS INSANE!!!!! Thank you to help me to understand what actualy is SID and this others things! i'm new on the chiptune universe, and want to be a chiptune creator haha, i'm learning about LSDJ, Nanoloop, LGPT, Milkytracker, and now Commodore 64 and the Ti 82! Thank you again man, and don't stop this amazing contents!!!
Thanks a lot! Yes, the world of chiptune is exciting - there are a multitude of platforms and trackers available to explore. Happy composing!
@@tubesockor Thank you!! haha, i was searching for one, and leave with 20 diferent options of "chip emulator trackers" i'm thinking in just download a lot of vstis for any chip sound i want to use, and then when i have the money, invest in a clockwork pi, to emulate the LSDJ, nanoloop and etc... I subscribed in your channel, you made a lot of cool contents! thank you again man o/ peace 😁
Nice to hear! Good luck with your music!
What a great return!
Hehe, thanks!
It's amazing! 1-bit music at its best :)
Thanks! Yes, I love the single bit :)
this is crazy and beautiful
Thank you Gustaf!
This is incredible.
Happy you liked it!
better than the original
Oh, thanks!
That's amazing!!!!
Thank you Mark, nice to hear!
Wow ... great !! ... made my day ... thanks !
Thanks for watching!
Wow, it sounds exactly like ZX Spectrum Tritone tracker. Great work, but no author, so I type TI 82 as the Author and hails to Rob Hubbard.
Yeah, the 1-bit technique was/is popular with the ZX Spectrum in general!
Riktigt bra! Tack!
Tack Linus!
It sounds amazing!
Yes, pretty ok for a calculator without sound chip :)
It is awesome!
Impressive!
Thanks!
Love it, seeing crAsh takes me back to senior highschool :)
Thanks! But actually, this CrASH is my own special version - since my TI-82 had such an old ROM version that nothing worked.
Will contribute that CrASH back to the community later on in case others with early TI-82s want to run the tracker :)
@@tubesockor Could have sworn I had one called crAsh, I had Ash at some point but also a variant...Maybe something other similarly amusing :)
No you are right, CrASH is the most common shell. But it only works for ROM versions above 15.0 or so. This calc is 8.0, so I had to take the standard CrASH, disassemble it and figure out how to modify to make it run on my TI :)
@@tubesockor Even more impressive then :)
Great!!!!
Thanks!
Grymt!
Tack!
Just WOW...!!..
Yeah, thanks! :)
originally composed - John Keating - Space Experience (1972)
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Yep, I mention it in the video as well - it is a great composition!
Holy cow Thomas! How long did it take to do the track in that editor?
Hehe. A while :) But all worth it!
Hey! Nice video! I was wondering if there was a download for the track, if possible. I want to impress my school at our music night by playing this on my (hidden) 84+. It's fine if you can't provide a download for Warhawk, if you five some tips for working with HT2, I can probably make my own cover of New Frontier for myself.
Thanks! No download available, but please make a cover of New Frontier, great song! Best way to learn a tracker like this actually to make a cover of something, I think.
Hey man! Do you mind if I use an image or a snippet of this video as an overlay in an interview I'm making for my job? The person we're interviewing is talking about this specific calculator and this would be perfect to use as an overlay. We're not making any money using it, it just fits well with the video. Thank you in advance!
Hey! No problems, just make sure to include a name & reference to the channel - and with a link if it is digital.
@@tubesockor sure thing!
This begs the question, why on earth did a calculator have a sound chip lol
It actually doesn’t! I describe it all in the first half of the video so take a look and find out :)
@@tubesockor lol ok I will watch the whole thing
This is also basically how programmers made music on the zx spectrum. Like most of the ti calculators, it has a z80 processor, but no dedicated sound chip. At least the zx spectrum has a built-in speaker already lol.
👍What cable link did you used? Can I use an arduino? I have the TI82 with version 18.0 Thanks.
I used a regular TI Silverlink USB cable. Haven't tried it myself but there seems to be a project "serial2ti83" on Github that emulates a Graylink using only an Arduino Uno and a jack connector. ROM 18 should work just fine, it is one of the common ones.
Happy you liked it :)
@@tubesockor Yeah ! Very good work ;)
Просто охуеть как круто!!!))
Should also be mentioned that you shouldn't hook this up directly to a bare speaker since you'll destroy the serial port trying to drive such a low impedance load (best to plug it into amplified speakers with line in impedance >1kOhm).
I destroyed my first casio calc's serial port because of that mistake many years ago (for just simple beep boops)
Otherwise awesome project!
Absolutely, ”plug in to a speaker” was really just a simplification in the explanation. I always connect with line in. Glad you liked it!
Hi, where can i find a 2.5to usb cable compatible to the TI82
It is called TI Graphlink USB cable, sometimes I’ve seen it is called ”94327”.
@@tubesockor thx
There is a way to get sound out of a ti-82 without any hacks/mods special software or plugging it into anything. It’s not GOOD sound or anything like this though.
Not sure what you mean here, the only way to get audio out is to run assembly language hacks like HoustonTracker or similar. Maybe thinking another calculator?
@@tubesockor It's not audio out, it's sound. I guess it could be considered "responsive sound"? I'm not an engineer lol. I haven't owned a Ti-82 in a looong time, but it's a simple trick. All you need is the calculator itself, an installed game and an open monitor (speaker, not screen). I like to use breakout or something with a lot of quick movement, not something text based. Tetris would probably work! So load up the game, turn on the speaker, volume up, put the calculator right up against the speaker, and you should get the sound of most of your actions and button presses coming through the speaker! If I remember correctly, it's just one tone of bleep, so yeah, very primitive, but it's a funny trick!! lol
Ah haha, some kind of interference - seems a bit hard to control :)
@@ddespair Ah, some kind of interference? Fun :)
Brilliant programming but it's very distracting having you moving the calculator around while it's playing.
Hehe, some feedback has been that they want more of that - can't please them all :)
@@tubesockor OK. Unlike some Presidents, I will bow to the will of the people. Move that thang!