dr.blowfins

September 30, 2005

All I know is, It does not work proper on secam machines.Because a secam version is not availlable.Thats the point in france and other countrys.

September 17, 2005

Hi there!

Having the 2600 receive MIDI would require using a fairly fast opto isolator along with two resistors. I'm not really sure what the purpose would be, since the 2600 would be very hard pressed to do ANYTHING while awaiting MIDI input. Each bit of MIDI data is 38.18 cycles, and while awaiting data the 6507 must poll at at least twice the bit rate.

Part of my plan for this was to add a little chip that will parallelize the MIDI data, feeding a whole byte at a time to SWCHA.

It may be possible with some horribly bloated code to keep a screen display going while receiving MIDI data, but even just maintaining vertical sync would be difficult.

No display is required at all. You hit a key on the keyboard, the VCS plays it, that's all.

Then, once one does all that, what does one have? A crummy two-note polyphonic instrument which can't even play in tune. What's the point?

Ask those guys buying the Synthcart. It's a synthesizer that can generate audio output. Of course oldskool elektro musicians and ancient synthesizer collectors want to have stuff like that. Must be the musicians version of those weirdo people that still play 8-Bit games

Greetings,

Manuel

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