We did that at Update Computer Club at Uppsala University back about 1992-1994 for an exebition. It was fun, and the machines was old already back then. 🙂
TRANS: Some washing machines are also currently playing tunes. But it's the effect of "more" available memory for the program to attract a potential buyer.
There is a music compiler/player program that takes in a fairly simple music description that represents the notes within sheet music, churns out the note lengths and frequencies in memory, then jumps to the player portion to generate the notes in real time. If you search for DECUS 8-804 online, you can see a PDF that describes the program pretty well.
We did that at Update Computer Club at Uppsala University back about 1992-1994 for an exebition. It was fun, and the machines was old already back then. 🙂
That is just brilliant! Love your work
popcorn is such an awesome tune it even sounds good played like this with a 1-bit sound output, kudos to you and the pdp-8!
sounds like something i’d hear in a megaman level
I used to work on those in the early 80s Reuters news service used PDP eights up to like 10 years ago
TRANS: Some washing machines are also currently playing tunes. But it's the effect of "more" available memory for the program to attract a potential buyer.
I have a pdp8-L myself. Looks like I found a new reason to fire it up again.
Pdpcorn
This is awesome
Awesome!
Superb.
Very epic!
Super Cool!
Bravo.
Nice
Can we get the code, please? We have one that's being powered up slowly..
Sure I’ll mail you rolls of paper tape Fortran code
@@tylerdean980 I'll help with the programming (not coding!). FORTRAN, COBOL 67, AND PL1 are the only compiler-level languages I remember.
Is that a Hammond model A in the background?
What exactly does the computer do? Is it forming the sounds according to external input, or is it playing content of its memory?
There is a music compiler/player program that takes in a fairly simple music description that represents the notes within sheet music, churns out the note lengths and frequencies in memory, then jumps to the player portion to generate the notes in real time. If you search for DECUS 8-804 online, you can see a PDF that describes the program pretty well.