> However, I think it's great that people today still want to dig in and learn > hardware register level programming, even retro style. > > Programming sound chips in those days was a total riot - F.U.N. I really wish things were as simple today as they were in those days. That's were I think the RPi and similar projects fail; they are fully fledged 32bit computers with modern architectures. Programming them barebones is possible, but I can guess it's more difficult than it's worth. Retro style makes it for a cool learning experience. > There's the question of what you are interfacing these chips to. > Embedded MPU? PIC chip etc? > Or PC driven? For experimenting these days you'll probably need > something like a USB kit like a Velmann kit. > Of course you can stick with the original computer like the C64. > Even interface an IBM to it, so the C64 acts as a command-driven > 'sound server'. > > F.U.N. Actually the c64 deserves it's own special place in my list. When I get to hold one of them, it will be to program it within it's machine code monitor, or maybe find some way to actually type on my PC. Learning the assembler and the registers seems hard enough to add making an interfacing kit (but then there is the possibility that learning the register leads me to better understand how to interface it...). _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
