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Dialer's Lab

One timeline of everything we publish — newest first. Field notes, feature write-ups, and game logs in the order they went live.

  1. Field note

    What chainDRiVE Hoped to Support vs. What It Can Actually Do

    The honest accounting: what we hoped to read and write, what shipped, what is import-only, and what turned out to be impossible.
  2. Field note

    The Wonderful World of Audio Codecs

    Mainstream, obscure, and the ones we wrote ourselves — from MP3 and Opus to PlayStation ADPCM, plus what chainDRiVE supports and what we want to try next.
  3. In development

    Building Bulletz Radio Chat: An Australian Edition

    How we were contracted to build a custom Australian distribution of Global Chaos CB Radio. Now on Google Play, iOS planned.
  4. Concept

    Rebuilding Sound Effects on Vintage Sound Chips

    Re-synthesizing digital audio as PC speaker, Sound Blaster 16, Sega Genesis, and NES sequences that chase the original's spectrum.
  5. In development

    chainDRiVE's Format Support Grows Up

    A wider, more honest codec bench — and the effects coming next: compressor presets, multiband, voice isolation, EQ presets, and maybe SBR restoration.
  6. In production

    KAOS-FM Gets a Real Station Stack

    Shows, Prankcast live cut-ins, archive plans, and a public Icecast stream for any player.
  7. In development

    Codec Depth, chainDRiVE, and CHAiNAMP

    Multi-codec decode/encode/playback work — and spinning CHAiNAMP into a Winamp-inspired standalone player.
  8. In development

    Why Audio Transcoders Still Matter

    Customization, sound engineering, and batch conversion — built for chainDRiVE.
  9. In production

    Faking AM & FM in Web Audio

    Why our radio simulation should feel like a cheap bedroom radio — not a lossless CD player (built for KAOS-FM, now in chainDRiVE).
  10. Concept

    Morse Code & Live Translation Subtitles

    Upcoming for GCCR: Morse on channel, plus browser-language translation captions.
  11. In development

    Kill Ratio Dev Log #3 — Solo offline, sharper pixels

    Play without a live server, cleaner frame, hazards that finally read as pools.
  12. In development

    Kill Ratio Dev Log #2 — Procedural arenas go live

    Fresh indoor arenas each round, retro crunch, and a HUD that lives in the game world.
  13. In development

    Kill Ratio Dev Log #1 — Starting from scratch

    Clean-slate arena deathmatch for the browser — first playable scraps and real captures.
  14. Concept

    Scanner Command Center Channel

    Listen-only world scanners with lightning, outage maps, and optional public cams.
  15. Field note

    Blind Server, Don't Ask Don't Tell

    End-to-end delivery through a relay that doesn’t ask who you are or hoard what you said.
  16. Field note

    When Slow Clients Almost Melted the Radio

    Live audio stays current when mobile networks fall behind.
  17. Field note

    Making iOS Safari Keep the Channel Open

    Background tabs, silent playback, and parked listening recovery.
  18. Field note

    Character Voices on Device

    Voice Puppet and other personas — without a native app install.
  19. Field note

    We Stopped Pretending Web Apps Can Be Zoom

    Why keyed radio beats conference-call design for CB culture.
  20. In production

    Real Push-to-Talk in a Browser Tab

    Half-duplex keyed TX/RX, cooldowns, channel rosters — not Zoom.
  21. In production

    Classic Mode for Operators

    Strip chaos UI; professional radio feel for serious keyed use.
  22. In production

    Parked Listening on iOS

    Keep the channel open when Safari wants silence.
  23. In production

    Voice Puppet

    Character voices converted locally before TX.
  24. In production

    Broadcast-Grade Audio

    Per-key loudness matching, ear protection, and broadcast-style playback.
  25. In production

    On-Device Safety Gates

    On-device screening before Feed posts go public.