[Coco] SirSound project update

[Allen Huffman]

> On Mar 6, 2018, at 1:54 PM, Jim McClanahan <jim30109 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

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.

> 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.

		— A