The CoCo could only generate one tone at a time bu...

2009-10-14T15:13:51.101-04:00

The CoCo could only generate one tone at a time but if you oscillated the tone fast enough you could fake it well enough that your ear couldn't really distinguish the fact that it was changing so quickly. The end result was really impressive.
---- Not true. I wrote a 4 voice polyphonic music engine with a note editor, all done in assembler, called "Music Box." It was sold by Prickly Pear. You could choose one of 4 timbres for each voice, however this didn't work as it came from Prickly Pear because of a bug. One little byte with a wrong value.
The sound went through the 6 bit DAC originally put there by Radio Shack to record data on a tape recorder.

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