recurBOY firmware update v3.0.0

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i have been living mostly offline lately and not posting much anywhere, but want to make more of an effort to share underscores updates here and elsewhere in the near future… including creating a thread in this category for each of the products we offer…

right now tho i want to share the release of recurBOY firmware update v3.0.0 - you can find the full release notes and link to download the new image here…

theres also a video walk-through of new features up on videos.scanlines :

besides bug fixes this release also adds:

  • renaming of existing screens and a new SETTING screen where many things can be configured
  • support for folder navigation in all content screens
  • new TEXT OVERLAY mode with live input from usb-keyboards
  • support for hot-plugging usb-drives / usb-midi-controller / usb-keyboard / usb-capture cards while program is running
  • and more
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Wow, great work on this!

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Cool to see a major update on this!

I hope this isn’t an annoying question (dangerous start to a sentence :joy:) but is there any chance the text overlay could be ported to recur?

I’ve been eyeing old character generators but they either fetch too high of a price, or have sketchy compatibility. If recur would do it instead, that would be a great alternative. Makes me wonder how hard it would be to find a font to match the late 80s VHS fonts.

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all good - happy to answer questions

but im not actively updating recur at the moment so no plans to add this there. although the backend/code between the two are very similar so it wouldnt be too hard to port it and both codebases are open… (i could be talked into looking into it further if someone wanted to commission the work from me tho…)

i found this font that matched the video titler i used to create trashpalace logo…

and also have another standalone project in the (early) works that could be another alternative