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>The development of the core program, buzz.exe, was halted on October 5, 2000, when the developer lost the source code to the program. It was announced in June 2008 that development would begin again, eventually regaining much of the functionality.

djmips•20m ago

Sounds like a real bad day.

skrebbel•3m ago

Yeah it was pretty spectacular. The author was a bit paranoid, had never shared his sources with anyone or backed them up anywhere or version controlled them to a remote SVN server or anything like that. And then his hard drive failed and Buzz development was over. IIRC there even was a community-organized crowdfunding campaign to fund some fancy data recovery company to try and revive the hard drive so he could get the sources back (not sure if this ever turned out happening).

rollulus•35m ago

I think “simulate” would’ve been a more accurate word than “build”.

bandrami•33m ago

It warms my heart to see the 303 getting a renaissance

kennyloginz•26m ago

This is cool, but I would personally find an og iMac and install rebirth.

bowsamic•21m ago

It’s a nice demonstration of this software but it really sounds very little like a 303

stagas•6m ago

Try tweaking the accent multiplier to .1 from .5 - you can get there but it requires a lot of value tweaking. There's no singular TB-303 sound, but the components are there.

torusle•10m ago

The fun thing was the Roland Sync. You could sync up all the TB-303, TB-909 and all the others with a 5-pole DIN cable. The sync was badly implemented. It lagged, it had latency.

However!

As soon as you cabled all together their imperfections added up and they started to groove like nothing that has been heard before.