[Coco] Music without hardware

[John Kent]

This was on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Radio National 
Big Ideas program back on the 20th Feb:

Blinded by science

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/blinded-by-science/3839938

It's the Fairlight CMI designed by a couple of guys in Sydney.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairlight_CMI

The first version was based on the 6800, but latter versions used the 
6809 and 68000.

My brother and I worked on a 4 voice wave table music program for the 
6809 back in the 70s or 80s based on a program for the 6502. We used an 
8 bit DAC (MC1408L I think) or possibly two.

John.

On 18/03/2012 12:42 AM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
> I have only one surviving recording from Quaver. I'm sure there are 
> many out there, but this is the only one I have, a little demo that 
> came with the program:
> <http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/music/mp3/autonica/god-rest-ye-8bitter.mp3> 
>
>
> There is a manual in a notebook that shows version 2.1 with pencil 
> changes for a version 2.3 that I believe was distributed in the last 
> days of Green Mountain Micro. Amazing that I can't remember anything 
> about this code, but overall it was my best program ... AND was 
> self-modifying to give it speed and the ability to interpret the 
> waveforms! Totally bad form and SO not relocatable. :)
>
> Dennis
>
>
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