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FM-1 firmware · v0.9

fm1-boardwalk

A seaside arcade of music games: ring tower bells, name notes by ear, play songs on falling tiles and win prize tickets.

Made by
Charles Vestal
Released
October 28, 2026
Install
On GitHub
Scan
Scanned, nothing harmful found · Oct 31 What we checked
Last checked
October 31, 2026

What fm1-boardwalk does

  • Boardwalk turns the FM-1 into a seaside arcade of eighteen music game cabinets you walk between.
  • OCT− and OCT+ or SELECT move along the row, PLAY steps up to a cabinet, and HOME walks back out.
  • Inside a game, PLAY starts and stops a round, the keys play it, and KNOB 1 picks the level or mode.
  • Games cover ear training, rhythm and melody: name notes by ear, find a chord's notes, play back rhythms and songs.
  • The Bells cabinet rings change ringing methods including Plain Bob, Grandsire, Kent Treble Bob and Cambridge Surprise.
  • Each game keeps its best score, and finished rounds pay tickets for playing well and on harder levels.
  • Prizes you trade for sit on the boardwalk's rail, and two of them change the boardwalk itself.
  • Over USB, Boardwalk tells the FM-1 Screen Reader the cabinet in front, each game's screen and its knobs as they turn.

Its modes

Boardwalk
Walk the row of cabinets with OCT− and OCT+, set the sea with KNOB 1 and the cabinets' tunes with KNOB 2.
Prizes
Trade your tickets for sixteen prizes laid out on the white keys, pressing PLAY to make the trade.
Striker
Ring the bell by striking as the swinging pointer passes the mark you were asked for.
Moles
Whack moles as they pop up from the keys, turning a good run into a tune.
Balloons
Hold a key to pump a balloon and let go on the ring before it pops.
Tiles
Play songs on falling tiles, including Ode to Joy, Für Elise and Greensleeves.
Gull
Fly a gull through the pier's posts by flapping, holding to climb, or singing your height.
Ducks
Shoot a gallery of ducks by playing the note each one quacks.
Teacups
Tap on the waltz's beat to spin your cup as it keeps speeding up.
Fortune
Ask Barnaby Brass a question in notes and get an answer in a tune and a card.

What Les checked

fm1-boardwalk v0.9Scanned October 31, 2026

What we checked for

  • The file is exactly the one its author published
  • It's the same file we saw when this release first came out
  • It opens cleanly as an FM-1 firmware, nothing damaged
  • It doesn't show up on your computer as a keyboard, mouse or other input device
  • It doesn't show up as a USB drive or network adapter
  • Its text mentions no computer command tools, like PowerShell, Terminal or a download command

What we found

  • MIDI and audio, as expected

StatusScanned, nothing harmful found

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