I've got a vintage MIDI synthesizer with the exact same CPU as the M100. (Korg Poly800) This is actually the reason I bought the T102 I have, as a platform to learn 8085 assembly. It is absolutely fast enough to process MIDI. The protocol was designed for and proliferated on computers of this era.
In the Tandy's case, the hitch is really getting the UART to go the right speed. Last time I tried, no combination of timer/divider settings would get it close enough to 31250 Baud. On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 5:19 PM Bert Put <b...@bertput.com> wrote: > Hi Ken, > > I highly doubt the M100 could handle such a protocol but the first thing > I thought of was MIDI; that is *the* electronic standard for defining > and playing music. Again, not sure if the M100 has the horsepower to > parse or play music from MIDI, but it was just a thought. > > (belated) Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year! > > Regards, Bert > > On 12/28/22 14:59, Ken Pettit wrote: > > Hey gang, > > > > I was trying to use the Linux based tools I wrote to create something a > > little more advanced than WCCARD.BA. It turns out getting the M100 to > > orchestrate a piece that is a bit more expressive is more challenging > > than just entering the notes from sheet music. It's pretty amazing how > > much interpretation an artist imparts that isn't on the page when > > actually playing / performing! > > > > Seems like to get a similar affect, I would need to extend my little > > sheet music parser to include expressive components in addition to just > > raw notes. Makes me wonder how programmers developed music for the M100 > > back in the day when the M100 was the only computer they were using. > > > > Ken > -- Disclaimer: Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental. Any resemblance between the above and my own views is non-deterministic. The question of the existence of views in the absence of anyone to hold them is left as an exercise for the reader. The question of the existence of the reader is left as an exercise for the second god coefficient. (A discussion of non-orthogonal, non-integral polytheism is beyond the scope of this article.) Thanks /usr/games/fortune
