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• How Does Ada's Memory Safety Compare Against Rust?

  A comparison of how well Rust and Ada prevent the most common memory-related software errors.
  2025.01.17 |

  Tagged as:

  • Ada
  • Programming

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• Introduction to Reverse-Engineering Vintage Synth Firmware

  A gentle introduction to reverse-engineering vintage synthesiser ROMs using the Ghidra disassembler.
  2024.03.18 |

  Tagged as:

  • DX7
  • Musical Equipment
  • Reverse Engineering
  • Synthesizers

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• The Identity of The Sanctimonious Kid

  Exploring the historic background of Jack Black's 'You Can't Win', and investigating the identity of The Sanctimonious Kid.
  2024.02.27 |

  Tagged as:

  • Non-Technical

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• How Far Back in Time Can I Take My Website's Design

  A look back through web-browser history, as I test my site against the browsers of the past.
  2023.05.07 |

  Tagged as:

  • Programming
  • The Small Web

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• Hacking the Yamaha DX9 To Turn It Into a DX7

  A brief account of hacking the Yamaha DX9's firmware ROM to make its functionality more closely match the DX7.
  2023.04.10 |

  Tagged as:

  • DX7
  • Musical Equipment
  • Programming
  • Reverse Engineering
  • Synthesizers

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• How the Yamaha FM Synth Cassette Interface Works

  A technical overview of how the cassette interface used in Yamaha's FM synthesisers encodes, and decodes patch data for external storage.
  2022.09.28 |

  Tagged as:

  • DX7
  • Musical Equipment
  • Reverse Engineering
  • Synthesizers

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• Yamaha DX7 Official Technical Analysis

  A chance discovery on eBay has surfaced some of Yamaha's original technical documentation for the DX7 synthesiser.
  2022.03.20 |

  Tagged as:

  • DX7
  • Musical Equipment
  • Synthesizers

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• Yamaha DX7 Firmware ROM Disassembly

  A brief update regarding the reverse-engineering of the Yamaha DX7's firmware ROM.
  2021.12.25 |

  Tagged as:

  • DX7
  • Musical Equipment
  • Reverse Engineering
  • Synthesizers

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• Yamaha DX7 Technical Analysis

  An introductory technical analysis of the Yamaha DX7, detailing some of the known information about the synthesiser’s engineering.
  2021.04.23 |

  Tagged as:

  • DX7
  • Musical Equipment
  • Reverse Engineering
  • Synthesizers

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• Giving Ada a Chance

  An in-depth look at the Ada programming language, its history, and what it has to offer developers today. As well as a fistful of my humble opinions.
  2021.01.13 |

  Tagged as:

  • Ada
  • Programming

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• Casio CZ-101 Review

  A review of the Casio CZ-101 synthesizer, from the charitable perspective of someone with experience in ugly, digital noise: An industrial musician.
  2020.09.01 |

  Tagged as:

  • Musical Equipment
  • Synthesizers

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