[Coco] Music without hardware

[John Kent]

I recall an FFT program published in Byte Magazine for the 6809 back in 
the 1980s.
Does anyone have a copy of that ? I might still have the magazine in the 
book shelf.

John.

On 21/03/2012 11:49 AM, John Kent wrote:
> 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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