Convenience; how many people would have dug out a special cable (if they had one) and speakers to listen to Ken's Xmas card...
m On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 8:21 PM Gregory McGill <arcadeshop...@gmail.com> wrote: > I realize that, but since it sounds like a very small potato.... why not > hook up speakers to the cass out like my model 3/4 does > > On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 4:04 PM Mike Stein <mhs.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I think we're trying to use the internal beeper like the PC, PET etc. do >> >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 6:23 PM Gregory McGill <arcadeshop...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Why don't you play it out the cassette port like the other trash80s do? >>> >>> On Thu, Dec 29, 2022, 7:57 PM Ken Pettit <petti...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On 12/29/22 6:46 PM, MikeS wrote: >>>> > There's quite a bit of 1-bit music out there for the PC, PET and >>>> other systems that only had a speaker, some of it remarkably good; should >>>> be possible to use similar techniques and even the same sound files on the >>>> M100. >>>> >>>> I actually tried playing a 1-bit audio file (that I recorded) last >>>> night >>>> on the M100 using a small ML routine I wrote. I could tell it was a >>>> person talking, but couldn't make out any of the words. I think the >>>> piezoelectric device the M100 uses as a "speaker" just doesn't cut it. >>>> At least I believe that is the problem. >>>> >>>> Ken >>>> >>>> > Re MIDI: there was a project years ago to use an M100 as a MIDI >>>> sequencer; IIRC the baud rate was 'close enough'. I cobbled together an >>>> interface for a proof-of-concept and it seemed to work OK; never went >>>> beyond that though ;-( >>>> >>>> Yeah, I was kinda wondering / thinking 1.7% error might be close >>>> enough, >>>> but not having any MIDI devices, I have no way to test it. >>>> >>>> Ken >>>> >>>>
