Robert Jonsson wrote:
Hi friends, Just wanted to share this amazing video of a c64 doing realtime effects that has been passing through the interweb today. The effects are quite spectacular for a machine that old and limited but I think perhaps the most amazing thing is that they managed to compress 2 minutes worth of Tom's Diner into 26kb of data, if I read the the white paper correctly. A video demonstration here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDrqBYkco-Y A white paper here: http://www.livet.se/mahoney/c64-files/Cubase64_White_Paper_by_Pex_Mahoney_Tufvesson.pdf Have only skimmed it yet but looks very interesting. Ofcourse there is always the chance this is a hoax but I sure hope not :)
Don't know about that one, but the first digitized audio recording I ever heard had been digitized on a C64. "Why Can't This Be Love?" by Van Halen.
Modern folk might not be aware of it, but the C64 had an 8-bit parallel port that connected directly to the CPU. With Forth or Assembly code, you could read that port in real time and store it in memory. I don't remember what the max sample rate was ...
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