On the topic of music and not retro gaming, here's a new piece of software called AcidBoutique, a music production tool for the Commodore Amiga created by solo developer wintermute303. Built in the developer's spare time with the help of AI, this software squeezes the authentic sound and feel of two iconic electronic instruments—the TB-303 bassline synthesiser and the TR-808 drum machine—onto a classic 40-year-old Amiga 500 with just 1 MB of RAM or more. Instead of relying on rough approximations, the software is the result of reverse-engineering, running the genuine logic of the original hardware in real time on the Amiga's Motorola 68000 processor so that every slide, accent, and drum hit behaves just like the real deal.
It is the kind of studio setup bedroom producers would've probably liked to have had back in the 1990s. Because of copyright restrictions however, Amiga users will need to supply their own original 303 and 808 ROMs to get started, with full instructions tucked inside the manual. Priced at roughly the cost of a single cup of coffee, wintermute303 is offering the tool to the community in hopes that a little support will help fund future updates for this music development tool.
- Thanks to Rochabian and thedaemon letting me know, you can find MAME tr303.zip and tr808.zip by googling it.
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