I think this is something that totally deserves to be seen, I've never seen something like this in my life before . I don't know if you've seen this before, but I was totally stunned!
Enjoy!
Re: Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:10 pm
by NickJohnson
You can usually do something like that as long as you have direct access to the motors in the hardware. Floppy drives' stepper motors have been programmed to play songs, and if you connect an amplified audio signal to the coil that controls the movement of a hard drive read head, you can turn it into a pretty nice speaker. I've never seen it done with a printer though - they're definitely loud enough to begin with .
Re: Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:16 pm
by Combuster
Beyond words, really.
Re: Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:13 pm
by NickJohnson
Hmmm... I bet you could write a nice sound driver for a floppy drive/printer/hard drive/CD drive. It might require single tasking though, or some sort of ingenious ISA DMA hack to make it work without constant attention. Something for the next 512-byte OS contest, perhaps?
Re: Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 12:51 am
by qw
Did you see the computers this guy is using? Eighties home computers! Unfortunately, they get a little out of sync with eachother after a few minutes. I'm a drum player; I really can't hear that. Nevertheless, an impressive piece of work!
Re: Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 8:25 am
by 01000101
That's just... pure awesomeness.
Re: Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:42 pm
by gravaera
^ Yup. Quite remarkable. Wonder how much time s/he put into that thing...
Re: Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 7:32 pm
by Troy Martin
Wow.
Holy crap.
Mighty bajeebus.
Yipes.
Cool.
Re: Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix
Re: Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:57 am
by gravaera
^^^ Non-Prorammers rarely ever understand what makes us light up. We're a very peculiar breed. One of the most interesting topics I ever saw, and which almost shocked me was this thing from stack overflow:
I was surprised how many of those behaviours I myself had been exhibiting without even knowing it was somewhat ... related...if that's a good word, to my hobby.
Re: Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix
Re: Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:18 am
by Andr3w
Creature wrote:I think this is something that totally deserves to be seen, I've never seen something like this in my life before . I don't know if you've seen this before, but I was totally stunned!
Enjoy!
Yes, it's awesome!
Hobbes wrote:I'm a drum player; I really can't hear that. Nevertheless, an impressive piece of work!
Yes, I hear that too. I'm a piano and a sax player
Re: Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix
Re: Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 8:50 am
by Solar
Hacks like this were not as uncommon in the 8-bit times as you might think. Hardware protocols for peripherals were usually readily available, even included with the hardware, because there were too many platforms around to provide drivers for all of them. The peripheral manufacturer relied on the platform vendor to implement the drivers - and people hacked the protocols to implement faster drivers, or - playing music.
I still remember fondly that C64 program I had, which would play the USA national anthem on the 1541 floppy hardware...
. I don't know if you've seen this before, but I was totally stunned!
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