Turns out I was half right. And less than half wrong.

Check out the soundtrack (slightly arranged) starting with track 21 of the 1987 album "パソコン・ミュージック Jesus / Gandhara / Wingman 2" [BY30-5169] archive.org/details/paso...

NHK Sound Effects Collection 5: Shopping, Construction, Amusement Park (1990) NHK効果音集 - 5 - 商店街・工事・遊園地

I was asked about using crc32 to identify files corrupted with initial zero bytes, since I'd written crctrunc back in 2019 to (slowly) match zeroes at the end. I finally got around to it, here's crc-init-trunc. As a bonus it's also vastly faster at crctrunc's job. github.com/hcs64/crc-in...

NHK Sound Effects Collection Disc 4 of 10: Telephone, Clock, Kitchen, School (1990) NHK効果音集 - 4 - 電話・時計・台所・学校

As the saying goes: tough, the tough go saying.

NHK Sound Effects Collection - 3 - Frogs, Crickets, Cicadas, Horses, Dogs (1990) NHK効果音集 - 3 - カエル・虫・セミ・ウマ・イヌ

Keep Honking, I'm Reticulating Splines

Herd is now finally out. Available as a physical game and as print files. Physical version is also part of the Letibus Bundle for 10% off. There are 100 free community copies of print files on Itch.io. blazgracar.com/herd

Working on the tracklist for my Wikipedia concept album 1. Controversy 2. Fictional character biography 3. Demographics 4. Exile on Saint Helena 5. In popular culture 6. See also (hidden track) References

Raeder - Programming In Pictures (November 1984), page 99 archive.org/details/Raed...

the fate of the ellipsoid remains uncertain

NHK Sound Effects Collection: Disc 2: Waves, Rivers, Birds

NHK Sound Effects Collection: Disc 1: Wind, Rain, Avalanche (1990)

I acquired two more NHK Wild Birds CD-Gs! Here's Volume 4, Waterside birds (水辺の野鳥編). 46 birds in 70 minutes, check it out on the web: hcs64.com/VOG-YC4/

Happy birthday! For me it's the OoT crash debugger tcrf.net/The_Legend_o...

It's been 30 years since the launch of CD Extra! These audio CDs have special features for computers, hidden from CD players in a 2nd session. Initially it was called "CD Plus", as in this mid-1995 Sony demo. The name was soon changed, but the Blue Book standard kept a CDPLUS directory for metadata.

I acquired two more NHK Wild Birds CD-Gs! Here's Volume 4, Waterside birds (水辺の野鳥編). 46 birds in 70 minutes, check it out on the web: hcs64.com/VOG-YC4/

Ran across an interesting early CD+G technical document, from "AV Technology on Display", December 1985: "Toshiba Corporation: Putting CD Graphics into Practical Use". Has some good technical info and a rare aside about Line Graphics www.cieri.net/Documenti/Do...

That's the last time I'm suffering through another Topaz on Towpaths project, my next app will use Tourmaline on Two Legs

Reading this write-up on Daniel Temkin's upcoming esolang book, I learned of the author's amusing Olympus language, expressing programs as prayers to ancient Greek gods: danieltemkin.com/Esolangs/Oly... I remembered an ambitious idea for an educational programming game: gashlin.net/blog/pages/2...

The soundtrack for Super B-Daman Battle Phoenix 64 is an enhanced CD, but though the obi makes a big deal of the MIDI content, the data track contains only a single Standard MIDI file. I collect N64 soundtracks but hadn't heard of this one until I spotted an auction last year.

Ingi Game Theme Music CD-ROM (인기게임 테마뮤직) includes vocal tracks and BGM for four games published in Korea by SKC Softland: Ant Man, Blue Chicago Blues, Dark Side Story, and Eclipse. Track 1 is a DOS CD player program, with a cool feature to show graphics from the games: youtu.be/JKl5XQCTCN0

While Avex Trax would later include Enhanced CD content in many releases, this 1994 compilation "Avex Dance Vol. 1" is the only one I found using CD+G. Mostly it's slowly scrolling artist bios and album covers, with occasional neat effects like this fractal palette cycle: youtu.be/8u3zKPIbza0

I'm always on the lookout for unusual uses of CD+G, this is the most unique yet: CDG Palm Reading, a 3 disc set showing hand diagrams, explaining the fortune telling interpretation. Imagine a market with enough CDG players where this would make sense instead of a CD and book, or a PC CD-ROM.

A nice selection of photos for a soothing half hour of rhythmic waterwheel clanking and light BGM. I now have 6 of the 10 CD-G discs in this series, earlier mentioned here bsky.app/profile/hcs6...

First blog post in a while, how I encoded Bad Apple!! to CD+G for a karaoke machine gashlin.net/blog/pages/2...

Kaizen: A Factory Story is now available on Steam! Build assembly lines to make toys, electronics, appliances, and more in 1980s Japan. Impress your bosses with your innovative solutions. store.steampowered.com/app/2275490/... Look out for weekly bonus puzzles coming your way soon!

If you've played any game by the developers at Coincidence Games (nee Zachtronics), you'll have some idea of what's in Kaizen: A Factory Story: A free-form puzzler about programming little machines to build stuff. bit.ly/3TYHXff

Out of context screenshot from Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No. 2 CD+G (Warner New Media 15029)

This is the Subcode R-W Test Disc from Kenwood, CD-T03, an hour long exercise of CD Graphics functionality. I picked it up because I noticed it listed a test of LINE instructions, and I'd been looking for an example of the very obscure Line Graphics mode. That's just one of the cool things on here!

I made a small update to my letter puzzle Fitting Words, should improve the early progression. hcs64.itch.io/fitting-words

2025 is the 40th anniversary of Japanese CD manufacturer Memory-Tech. This two disc set from May 1995 commemorates the 10th anniversary. The gold disk 1 is a unique Deutsche Grammophon classical compilation. Disk 2 is a reissue of Kitaro - Silk Road Best. (Just audio CDs, for a change of pace!)

Sansyusya had a long series of CD Books, combining print with audio, often language lessons. This 1990 release of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 is the only one I've found with CD Graphics. Bad colors and dithering, Zoom System Service would improve, but good use of partial updates and scrolling.

I found something endearing about this CD+G BGM series from 1996. 10 discs, each a half hour long with some stock photos, soothing sounds, and light music. A neat effect: Fade out is at the start, not end, of tracks, so if you skip mid-track the old image fades out, avoiding a sudden cut to black.

This is a 1993 mini CD+G promoting Japan's approach to the 1994 World Cup. There are two songs with lyrics, and a good deal of information about the tournament history and schedule, with text, infographics, and narration.

In 1994 Casio made a series of 3 instructional CD+Gs to go along with the KT-90G keyboard, which had a built in CD Graphics player. This version features "Let it Be", the other two have children's songs and enka. Palette animation is used to highlight the keys in sync with the music.

This 1993 NHK CD has more than bird songs and narration, it also includes illustrations and info in CD+G graphics. I set up a web player where you can see and hear all 31 birds in this volume: hcs64.com/VOG-YC2/

Soft Pop 231, a 1990 CD-BGM from Philips Background Music Systems. These include a CD-i menu with play controls.

@cabel.panic.com As I suspected it's a cut down version of the Ver. 1.0 CD-G Test Disc, 14 tracks and just over 2 minutes of test tones and patterns. No CD+EG. But they did at least add a scrolling title screen in track 2. Thanks @cdrom.ca for bringing these to my attention!