[Coco] Game Master Cart demo

[Allen Huffman]

> On Jan 9, 2018, at 12:17 PM, mike at borncoco.com wrote:
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> I posted a short demo of the Game Master Cart on YouTube if you're interested.
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> [ https://youtu.be/mGaaDpZ-M3c ]( https://youtu.be/mGaaDpZ-M3c )

Nicely done, Mike. It’s very reminiscent of the VIC-20 sounds (no ADSR), and using the volume to produce decay. In my VIC-20 days, I created many programs just doing sound effects.

When I get one of these, I expect I’ll dig out my old VIC-20 code and port it ;-)

It was good to hear just tones. I may be the only one who doesn’t care for “chip tunes.” There has always been a certain feel to music from the C64 SID days, and then, later, the type of music the NES/Genesis/etc. did. But outside of chip tunes, those sounds just don’t show up in mainstream music (though I bet theirs some genre like techno, dubsmash, etc. that involves this type of music).

I was working on a BASIC port of my Arduino C code that drives the same chip. BASIC wasn’t as rock solid on the timing, but not terrible. I look forward to hearing what folks come up with once these are out in the wild.

		— A