I’ve got one last night with The Roaming Speccy, so why not a little music? Matthew Desmond has implemented the Mozart Lives project as originally published in the March 1983 issue of Your Computer magazine. It’s an AY-3-8910 sound card for the ZX Spectrum, along with procedural music generation software based on systems that were first popularized in the mid to late 1700s! There’s lots of little extras in this episode too: don’t miss the Dalek appearance near the end, for example.
Links:
Roaming Speccy Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVrbovsBzZ1QXNYXBqOEQtBNRKfdF4DGJ
The charity that the Roaming Spectrum will eventually be auctioned off for:
https://www.thebefriendingscheme.org.uk/
Matt’s ZX project repo: https://github.com/FactorOfMatt/sinclair-zx-psg
Matt’s website: https://factorofmatt.com/
Your Computer magazine: https://archive.org/details/your-computer-magazine-1983-03/page/n61/mode/2up?q=dice
ZX tap-to-wav: https://github.com/raydac/zxtap-to-wav
Ken’s Speccy Canadian Road Trip: https://youtu.be/V4fKGPyvSP4
Wikipedia articles I mentioned:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musikalisches_W%C3%BCrfelspiel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC_circuit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Instrument_AY-3-8910
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Index:
0:00 Mozart Lives: AY-3-8910 for ZX Spectrum
3:05 Loading Minuetz: from TAP to Real Speccy
11:04 Running Minuetz without sound card
14:08 Running with sound card & external speaker
17:02 With sound card and headphone jack output
19:01 Gamble with the dice?
25:57 Predict the fall of the dice?
28:53 ThunderCon – Dalek’s favourite computer?
30:22 Thanks!
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