Date   : Tue, 12 Oct 1999 18:01:00 +0100
From   : "Fraser, Colin J" <Colin.Fraser@...>
Subject: Re: Music 5000

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edwin Carter [mailto:ecc25@...]
> Sent: 12 October 1999 15:25
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Subject: [BBC-Micro] Music 5000
> 
> I've recently come back to the BBC world (having found with much joy a
> live & well BBC community!!).  I've successfully transferred 
> files and run
> emulators etc. but the one thing I'm missing is any way to make use
> of Music 5000 stuff on a PC.
> 
> Does anyone know of any software out there?  E.g. perhaps an emulator
> add-on, or some way of converting to midi format 
> (unfortunately, I don't
> have a Music 2000 which I guess would do the job via a midi 
> cable...) ?

If any emulator writers want to add Music 2000 midi support to their
emulator, I can provide the address mapping and hardware details.
This might be a fun addition to an emulator - you could use Ample to control
midi synths.

The M2000 is just 3 6850 acias - so the code to emulate them should already
exist and would just need to pass data bytes on to a PC midi output. M2000
software doesn't make use of the midi input afaik.

Music 5000 emulation would be possible, but a much bigger deal. It is a
fixed program, pipelined DSP, implemented mainly in discrete 7400 series
logic.


Colin f