Porting MDFourier to PowerPC Macs

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There’s a recurring question in my life which never seems to find a proper answer: “Why?” Thanks to a certain someone on Twitter, I got the itch to get my hands on a PowerPC Mac and while browsing the various wikis and websites about vintage macs, I already had in mind what I was looking … Read more

Compiling static binaries on macOS

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How do you compile static binaries on macOS? You don’t. Thanks for reading.   In other news: on Linux you can easily compile static binaries because, as you might be already aware, most software on Linux is open source. That’s not the case on macOS because there are some system libraries which are, obviously, closed … Read more

Playing Dariusburst on a Mac Mini M1

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Since I’ve bought my 49″ Philips ultrawide screen, I’ve been unable to play the only game that I’m aware was specifically made for a 32:9 aspect ratio: Dariusburst. Back when I was using 4 monitors (2 vertical at the sides, a big central one and another smaller one at the top center) with my Mac … Read more

Adding a battery to backup SRAM in the Yamaha MU15

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There’s nothing more disheartening than working for an entire week on a track and then finding out that your sound module completely forgot all of the settings of the various instruments you carefully altered, layered and assigned a certain effect to (oh right, all the various effects settings are gone as well). Of course, that … Read more

Unlocking Yamaha’s XG System secrets

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Yamaha XG

I honestly think that Yamaha XG is one of the most underrated MIDI systems ever made. It got the bad stigma of being just a “better General MIDI” box (isn’t that the case with Roland GS as well?) without people realizing how flexible and powerful this system is. And not just for playing back MIDI … Read more