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I'm an Italian guy that likes games, programming, designing user interfaces and tinkering with old stuff (especially vintage computers and games). Sometimes I also play the bass guitar. Let's chat if you happen to like those things too!
I've got my MSc in Computer Science in the beautiful city of Venice, studying Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, and right now I work at Flux, where I'm building a next generation tool for Hardware Design.
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Beitrag
Vintage sound chips make cool music, but what's hiding inside of them? Which algorithms are they using?
In the past years I've been dedicating my free time to building emulators for old digital sound chips from synthesizers/game consoles, in an effort to preserve them and make them usable without the original hardware. During this time I went through lots of interesting stuff: silicon reverse engineering, logic analyzers, weird compression schemes, forgotten audio algorithms and more. In this talk I want to share with you what I learned from this process and what's next. Specifically, I will explain how I'm currently reverse engineering a custom DSP from the 90s just by using an Arduino Mega and lots of speculation, and how you can probably apply the same process to other chips as well.