Timeline for Commodore 64 noises during loops, flash load and others
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| Oct 27, 2022 at 9:18 | comment | added | Alan B | Another example is Richard James aka electronic music pioneer Aphex Twin who at age 11 produced sound on a Sinclair ZX81, a home computer with no sound hardware: "I played around with machine code and found some codes that retuned the TV signal so that it made this really weird noise when you turned the volume up" | |
| Oct 21, 2022 at 17:40 | comment | added | Geo... | Ahh, found it, it was at Homebrew - digibarn.com/collections/movies/digibarn-tv/… | |
| Oct 21, 2022 at 17:35 | comment | added | Geo... | I seem to recall an anecdote from Levy's book Hackers about an early blob of code someone wrote that played some tunes on a transistor radio when held close to the computer. It might have been at Homebrew, or maybe earlier with the PDP - I don't have the reference, but it's a famous "Holy-Cr4p!" moment in computer history. | |
| Oct 21, 2022 at 15:19 | comment | added | Organic Marble | "This led to people making programs to loop at various rates to play tunes out of the radio." Indeed, in 1977 I and a friend toggled in the Star Wars theme on a homebrew computer using just such a program. We played it over a nearby AM radio, recording it on a cassette player. I've still got the clip. We had to enter the program using front panel switches in BCD, least significant digit first. There was no storage, if you kicked over the power cord, all gone. | |
| Oct 21, 2022 at 10:59 | vote | accept | rexkogitans | ||
| Oct 20, 2022 at 13:57 | history | answered | Justme | CC BY-SA 4.0 |