Nectarine
Infamous OneLiner
mirrorbird
(22:51:34)
are AWFUL little tape/disk drives. i want to see this. in reality. i had one! and that didn't fucking work. i want to see 63 real microdrives in a "workgroup"
edlinfan
(22:51:26)
omg ages since I heard this
mirrorbird
(22:51:05)
this was the story of no possible user. (also why stop at eight? i see. RAM.) i am curious though. this is one area that hasn't been properly emulated or explored. another is: you can technically set up a network of up to 63 (i think) microdrives. which
mirrorbird
(22:50:28)
speccy 128 basic allows you to write PLAY "...","...","...","...","...","...","...","..." you think: what can this possibly mean, my sound chip only has 3 chans. then you get a fucking home studio and it all changes
zoner
(22:48:56)
bah, USB is just fancy serial port
mirrorbird
(22:45:49)
"you can plug anything into anything" (this isn't true bird, that's why we had to invent USB. and vacation travel plugs.) YKWIM
mirrorbird
(22:45:17)
who wasn't specifically a musician already
mirrorbird
(22:45:10)
end of the day you can plug anything into anything. (ha ha, that's why the speccy 128 supported MIDI. actually i think they just saw the Atari as their main rival, who ever used bloody MIDI)
edlinfan
(22:44:16)
Hah, that'd be' a step up from an AY-like, certainly
mirrorbird
(22:38:30)
i dunno how 'authentic' it is -- there was a thing would let the speccy play MODs, but when you have basically an amiga in a box, is it a speccy any more
