TI Forth music demo – The Little fugue in G Minor

[dphirschler]

I forget how to load the music demo that comes with TI-Forth. I am sure somebody here remembers it. I want to hear “The Little Fugue In G Minor” again. It’s so impressive.

While I am on the subject, does anybody remember the Forth demo put on at the user group meetings (by TI folks?) showing off the TI-Forth hardware and the 12 music voices? And each voice was represented by a colored rectangle on the screen. I remember being blown away by that demonstration, and I could not wait for Forth to arrive. And then when it did, it was only a diskette and a manual… which was still cool, but not 12 voices of music cool. And the music demo was standard TI 3 voice + noise, with no colored rectangles representing the voices.

All that being said, the music demo with TI-Forth is still so impressive. Anyone remember the command to launch it?

Darryl

 

[ti99_forever]

That demo sounds like it included a FORTI sound board. It had a composer/player written in Forth. And it also had rectangular blocks of color for the voices.

It had 12 voices as well. The card had 4 TI (FORTI?) sound chips, same make as in the computer.

[+Ksarul]

That's exactly what that was--the FORTI card uses four TI sound chips and is programmed in FORTH. I have one, and it is an awesome TI peripheral. Very few of these seem to have survived, even though it was sold as a kit by one of the user's groups in the Northeast (using bare boards they bought from TI) for several years after TI pulled out of the market. I've only seen one of them sold on eBay in the last 15 years--and I bought it, as it was the first one I'd ever actually seen.

[dphirschler]

Ksarul, I'd love to see a demo of that. Any chance you could make a video and upload it to YouTube?