Sleepy Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 The ABBUC hardware contest 2022 has also started. The deadline for this year is july 31th 2022. Here you can find the rules: 2022 HWC EN.zip 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepy Posted April 19, 2022 Author Share Posted April 19, 2022 The first contribution this year comes from pancio: MIDIcar – independent, easy to use MIDI player/recorder 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 PBI/ECI/BUS always a great choice! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancio Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 12 hours ago, Sleepy said: The first contribution this year comes from pancio: MIDIcar – independent, easy to use MIDI player/recorder Thanks Sleepy for announcement. Now me and my colleague working on good player and (maybe) module for SFX Tracker (from PeBe) with can read data from MIDI keyboard... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MARIO130XE Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 Just a little suggestion.? 1 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panther Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 How do I unsee this?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DjayBee Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 Do you know the flasher-thingy from Men In Black? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panther Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 33 minutes ago, DjayBee said: Do you know the flasher-thingy from Men In Black? That should do it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathy Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 (edited) Hello guys Now all we need is someone who can patch MIDI-Maze (maybe even add in the MIDIcar as an extra option besides "850", "MIDI", etc.) and maybe all the other software written for the MIDI-Mate (compatible) interface. Sincerely Mathy Edited April 20, 2022 by Mathy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancio Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 Hi, I may try to write patch to existing software but I can't found any source code to do that... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancio Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 (edited) The first MIDI music played on MIDIcar: Software designer: PeBe. Edited April 30, 2022 by pancio 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Any chance the software will support the MidiBlaster in the 1088XLD (it uses that same S2 module). I've found one existing player that works on it, but it's rather clunky. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancio Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Hi, I can't promise because PeBe has many tasks to do with MIDIcar at this moment. Maybe I'm wrong but the S2 module feature on 1088XLD is based on SIO transmission - like SIO2MIDI, so it's little bit harder to save time discipline during load/save data and play music... e.g. I heard some delays during play Mission Impossible song... Sending data to S2 based on MIDIcar is very simple.. just three ST(AXY) to register and POKEY is pretty free ? Probably MIDI functionality will be implemented in PeBe's SFX Tracker, it's very likely with feature for SIO2MIDI... 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mytek Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 33 minutes ago, pancio said: I heard some delays during play Mission Impossible song... Sending data to S2 based on MIDIcar is very simple.. just three ST(AXY) to register and POKEY is pretty free ? Those delays had nothing to do with file loading, since the file is played from memory after transfer from the disk. Most likely what you are noticing is that the Midi-CLK is not being used by that player, so is not synced. A good player would sync up with the CLK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancio Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 Thank you for clarification. So it's possible to use CLK generated by PIC for synchronization by using MIDI_CLK connected to SIO_CLK on pin 9 but mentioned player doesn't use it. For me SIO2MIDI was a milestone for Atari8 and MIDI and I'm fascinated how easy may play songs on Atari. Thanks for that! ? When I prototyping MIDIcar I followed your project as well. (music bonus at start - the best!). but during analyze, I decided use only one receive/send register for communication instead mixed PIA/POKEY registers for simplicity. MIDIcar hasn't MIDI_CLK as separate signal - just only serial tick is synchronized with 31250Hz - rests timers being produced on the Atari by software... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancio Posted May 3, 2022 Share Posted May 3, 2022 (edited) Master PeBe made new version of his MIDI Player.... ? Edited May 3, 2022 by pancio 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancio Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 Newest version of PeBe's player can play files bigger than 42KB (to 1MB): 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathy Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 Hello pancio 3 hours ago, pancio said: Newest version of PeBe's player can play files bigger than 42KB (to 1MB): Will it autodetect which bits (PIA) are used? And if the memory upgrade is RAMBO or CompyShop compatible? Sincerely Mathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancio Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 I'm using it with Hias based SRAM module with configuration PORTB 2,3,5,6,7 - it's common access for Antic and CPU for additional 512KB. I asked PeBe for autodetect method... Need to check with u1M but I've it installed in 800XL.. unfortunately, version of MIDIcar using PBi is still in development stage... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancio Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 Memory is detecting automatically by using: https://github.com/tebe6502/Mad-Pascal/blob/master/lib/misc.pas 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancio Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 The Atari8 to Vangelis tribute.. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancio Posted July 16, 2022 Share Posted July 16, 2022 The MCplayer was released... very good stuff! Have fun! parallel, case for MIDIcar was designed: 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pseudografx Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 Oh, I saw this at the party and wondered what it was 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancio Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 Today PeBe released MCPlayer v.1.1 which has a few new features like music progress bar, free memory indicator, help and counter design button. Don't be hesitate when you'll vote for best software on ABBUC Software competition ? Specially for you I prepared short music suite. Have fun! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepy Posted November 1, 2022 Author Share Posted November 1, 2022 After the last ballots were cast live at the AGM, the result is now known: The MIDIcar of pancio was classified by the members in category 2. The ABBUC supports the project with 300 €. Maybe you have heard about another result. The result was corrected from category "4", as announced at the AGM, to "2"! Unfortunately, there was an error on Saturday when entering the ballots cast on site, which caused the contribution to be erroneously classified in category 4. Fortunately, the mistake was noticed during the post-processing of the results. 43 members voted, 27 of them online via the form on the homepage and 16 votes were submitted on site. Congratulations to pancio! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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