Re: [M100] M100 Audio / music

2022-12-29 Thread Ken Pettit
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

Re: [M100] M100 Audio / music

2022-12-29 Thread MikeS
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. Re MIDI: there was a project years ago to use an M100 as a MIDI sequencer;

Re: [M100] Merry Christmas

2022-12-29 Thread Ken Pettit
Hi Jason, Thank you! I'm glad you liked it. Sorry for the delayed response, this email ended up in my SPAM folder for some reason. Ken On 12/25/22 6:46 PM, Jason White wrote: Thank you for the fine Christmas “Card” Ken. It was very well done. Merry Christmas to All! J White Sent from

Re: [M100] M100 Audio / music

2022-12-29 Thread Alex ...
You also couldn't use the UART and the buzzer at the same time given how this machine is wired up. Hmm. Honestly, I figure it's at least possible to write a decent monophonic music tracker program for the M100's internal speaker. Throw in a fast arpeggiator for chords like they do to save

Re: [M100] M100 Audio / music

2022-12-29 Thread jonathan.y...@telia.com
Hi All, Even midi has it's shortcomings though the stream can sound OK if you ignore the actual structure of what is shown on sheet music. I play a fair amount of Swedish folk music, and the notation on paper is really just a convenient notation, and the real music doesn't actually sound like

Re: [M100] M100 Audio / music

2022-12-29 Thread Ken Pettit
On 12/29/22 6:56 AM, Alex ... wrote: 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

Re: [M100] M100 Audio / music

2022-12-29 Thread Bert Put
Thanks Alex, I'm more than happy to stand (sit?) corrected. :-) And if anyone can convince the M-100 to talk at 31250 baud, it would be Ken LOL Regards,Bert On 12/29/22 08:56, Alex ... wrote: I've got a vintage MIDI synthesizer with the exact same CPU as the M100. (Korg Poly800) This

Re: [M100] M100 Audio / music

2022-12-29 Thread Alex ...
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.