"Market" for old macs?

Jim Leonard trixter at oldskool.org
Thu Dec 1 17:34:29 CST 2005


Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>>>Neither really. The original Mac sound hardware had four *synthesis* voices,
>>>which could be fed a waveform and act as a primitive wavetable synthesizer.
>>>This produces four-note polyphony.
>>
>>I don't know what you consider to be 'original Mac', but the Mac+ sound 
>>hardware was a pulse-width modulator loaded from a spare byte in the 
>>video RAM area at the end of each video line.
> 
> I think we're looking at this from different angles. I'm looking at it from
> the view of what the Toolbox offers for music playback and synthesis; it
> seems you and Jim are actually talking about what the Toolbox is driving.

Yes.  I'm primarily a software tinkerer.  I don't design the hardware but I 
sure love to make it do things it wasn't originally intended to do :-)
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