[Coco] SirSound project update

[Jim McClanahan]

Run it on an ESP8266 and we can telnet into it over WiFi. :-)

I have a "real" floppy controller and drive for an old CoCo 1I have,
but haven't been ambitious enough to try it out yet. I have a CoCo 3
on the way and was planning to use Drivewire with it. (The floppy
controller is one of the original ones that is only compatible with
the CC1 because of voltages on the cartridge port, so I couldn't use
it on the CC3 even if I wanted to.)

Part of me likes the idea of being able to cross develop from the
Drivewire server, but I started off in 1980 with a 6502 editor and
assembler loaded from cassette on my OSI C1P (after a lot of hand
coded machine language work) so even EDTASM+ from disk looks like a
pretty elaborate development system to me. :-)

Thanks,
Jim


On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 2:58 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
>> On Mar 6, 2018, at 1:54 PM, Jim McClanahan <jim30109 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> This looks really interesting, not just for the CoCo but as a way to
>> put audio on other homebrew single-board systems. The only bad thing
>> is that it would conflict with using Drivewire on the serial port.
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> If you are using Drivewire and OS-9, you can use the PC as a MIDI device. It’s not simple to do from BASIC, though. That’s always been the issue with all the cool things Drivewire can do - internet, MIDI, etc. Unless you are an OS-9 user, you can’t really use ‘em.
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>> I'd definitely be interesting in giving the Jr. a go when you feel
>> like it's ready. Gives me a reason to order a few more nanos. :-)
>
> Or any other Arduino. The Jr. uses the tone() function. I even found an alternate library that allows volume control of tone(), so I’ll see about using that. That will restrict which boards can use it, though, since the library had a list of which ones can support the trick.
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