January 13th, 2016

XM Converter for Squeeker Beeper Routine

Making an XM converter for Zilogat0r’s infamous Squeeker 1-bit routine has been on my to-do list for a long time. I absolutely love the sound of this four channel ZX Spectrum routine and it’s unique synthesis core, but so far the rather cumbersome BASIC editor by Factor6, which was the only available interface until now, has put me off actually doing some music with it. Now I finally got around to making an XM converter for it. It’s based on the 2012 version of the routine (the original having been written back in 2000) and uses a new data format of my own design, which is less memory efficient than the original, but loads faster and allows in-tune tempo changes. Download the converter here.