11 Aug
2005
11 Aug
'05
8:35 a.m.
This is something we don't hear a lot about on the list.
A lot of it is on-topic, and some of the more obscure kit was based on
fairly common single-board computers of their day. The PPG Wave ran
Flex on its Eurocom II board (powered by a 6809). The Fairlight was
based on two 6809 CPUs.
There was the old Greengate kit that plugged into Apple IIs, and an
editor for the Ensoniq Mirage that again ran on an Apple II.
I don't know what the Simmons SDX used but apparently it was a fairly
common SBC. I know the SDS7 has a 6802 on the CPU board.
Gordon.
11 Aug
11 Aug
9:11 a.m.
Hybrid Arts had a MIDI interface kit for the Atari 8bit line of
computers. Hybrid Arts was brought in and consulted with by Atari
who intergrated MIDI into their ST line of computers and was probably
one of the Atari ST's saving graces vs. the Amiga.
Curt
Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
This is something we don't hear a lot about on the
list.
A lot of it is on-topic, and some of the more obscure kit was based on
fairly common single-board computers of their day. The PPG Wave ran
Flex on its Eurocom II board (powered by a 6809). The Fairlight was
based on two 6809 CPUs.
There was the old Greengate kit that plugged into Apple IIs, and an
editor for the Ensoniq Mirage that again ran on an Apple II.
I don't know what the Simmons SDX used but apparently it was a fairly
common SBC. I know the SDS7 has a 6802 on the CPU board.
Gordon.
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11:36 a.m.
At 08:11 AM 8/11/2005, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Hybrid Arts had a MIDI interface kit for the Atari 8bit
line of computers. Hybrid Arts was brought in and consulted with by Atari who
intergrated MIDI into their ST line of computers and was probably one of the Atari
ST's saving graces vs. the Amiga.
Atari partisan revisionist. :-)
The very first piece of hardware I had for my Amiga was a
MIDI dongle from Amiga Corp. that plugged into the serial port.
It was a handmade, bare, uncased prototype they sent me as a
developer interested in making MIDI software.
Very little glue is needed to support MIDI if a computer's
UART can handle the speed.
- John
12:26 p.m.
John Foust wrote:
Very little glue is needed to support MIDI if a
computer's
UART can handle the speed.
The problem is that even if your UART can (it's only 31250 baud) then
there is no ratio that divides cleanly to give that and other "normal"
ratios.
I made a MIDI card for the PC by replacing the clock generator with one
that *did* divide correctly, and subsequently made another that does
62500 baud for the internal comms bus in my ESQ-1, when the screen
broke. The software to interpret the control codes was a whole other
story though...
Gordon.
15 Aug
15 Aug
2:35 p.m.
Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
This is something we don't hear a lot about on the
list.
Screw computer-controlled musical equipment, I want to hear
equipment-controlled musical computers! For example:
http://qotile.net/dotmatrix.html has the most amazing dot matrix printer music
I've ever heard. His TRS-80 disk drive experiments are also hilarious.
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