-hard plAYer- 8 bit tunes hardware player

Kimberly Lau — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:00:35 +0000

For people who miss the golden age of Atari music, you can recreate the magic of 8 bit music with the -hard plAYer-. [Tolaemon] put a lot of thought and work into this hardware player. From the AY-38912 programmable sound generator, which used to be in old computers like the Atari or Colour Genie, to working with the YM file format, each piece is put together with the utmost care. [Tolaemon] also provides his design, firmware(ZIP), and parts list so that you can make your own hardware player.

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XT to AT keyboard adapter

Will O'Brien — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:46:00 +0000

If you dig the older switch based keyboards, you’ll like this. As a favor to a friend, [Bob van Loosen] built a small converter using a pic16F84 to make an XT telex keyboard usable with modern AT style computers.

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-hard plAYer- 8 bit tunes hardware player

XT to AT keyboard adapter