Subj : Re: Big nostalgia hits
To   : Bob Worm
From : boraxman
Date : Fri Nov 24 2023 21:29:17

 BW>  > Years ago, I found a YouTube channel where someone has made a setup he 
 BW>  > the "Floppotron", which plays music with floppy drives.  He has a bunch
 BW>  > floppy disk drives connected to a computer that uses software to engage
 BW>  > floppy drives' motors to produce various tones, and it looked to me lik
 BW>  > software can load a MIDI file and play it with the floppy drives.
 BW> 
 BW> I remember that, yes. The first few of those seemed really well done, a
 BW> lot of effort put in to remake tracks around the limitations of the
 BW> medium. Then I ran into more videos years later which included stepper
 BW> motors and played multiple tones at once. It just seemed like analogue
 BW> audio was being fed into the motors, not so much art to it, kind of
 BW> spoiled it for me.
 BW> 
 BW> Maybe I'm just grumpy.
 BW> 

There was another channel where a Dot Matrix printer was used to make music, including the track of E1M1 of Doom.  Can't remember what channel, but if you search for dot matrix doom e1m1 I'm sure it will come up.

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