Sound and Music Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/category/sound-and-music/ Electronics, Computing and Videogame History! Sun, 13 Dec 2020 19:40:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 http://paleotronic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-keyicon-1-32x32.png Sound and Music Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/category/sound-and-music/ 32 32 146320098 Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro Christmas Returns… Again! http://paleotronic.com/2020/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns-again/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns-again/#respond Sun, 13 Dec 2020 19:06:25 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=15904 Did you miss it last year? Well, here’s another chance to check out Paleotronic’s 12 years of Retro-Christmas, a series of 12 mini-mags looking back at consumer electronics covering the years 1980-1991. It was the [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns-again/feed/ 0 15904 Chip to be Scared: the BBC Radiophonic Workshop http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/14/chip-to-be-scared-the-bbc-radiophonic-workshop/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/14/chip-to-be-scared-the-bbc-radiophonic-workshop/#respond Wed, 14 Oct 2020 01:14:01 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14812 As a child born in the seventies and who grew up in the eighties one of my biggest memories is of the long running BBC science fiction show Doctor Who. It was pretty much always [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/10/14/chip-to-be-scared-the-bbc-radiophonic-workshop/feed/ 0 14812 The Yamaha CX5M Music Computer http://paleotronic.com/2020/09/28/the-yamaha-cx5m-music-computer/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/09/28/the-yamaha-cx5m-music-computer/#respond Mon, 28 Sep 2020 04:41:23 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14398 By 1983 the consumer was spoiled for choice when it came to purchasing a home micro-computer. Apple, Atari and Commodore all had their own systems in the mix, along with those from smaller companies. With [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/09/28/the-yamaha-cx5m-music-computer/feed/ 0 14398 Kill a Happy Face: The Mayhem of MIDI Maze, the first FPS http://paleotronic.com/2020/09/28/kill-a-happy-face-the-mayhem-of-midi-maze-the-first-fps/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/09/28/kill-a-happy-face-the-mayhem-of-midi-maze-the-first-fps/#respond Mon, 28 Sep 2020 04:32:02 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14391 In the previous two issues of Paleotronic I have written about RPG games, their origins, the games credited with being the first of their kinds on home computers in the RPG video gaming category. Midi [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/09/28/kill-a-happy-face-the-mayhem-of-midi-maze-the-first-fps/feed/ 0 14391 From the laboratory to the arcade: Computer Music http://paleotronic.com/2020/09/28/from-the-laboratory-to-the-arcade-computer-music/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/09/28/from-the-laboratory-to-the-arcade-computer-music/#respond Mon, 28 Sep 2020 04:18:34 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=14384 There are five senses: touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing. Computers have always been tactile – you have to touch them in order to use them (at least until relatively recently.) You can twiddle knobs, [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/09/28/from-the-laboratory-to-the-arcade-computer-music/feed/ 0 14384 Build a No-Slot MIDI Interface on the Apple ][ Game I/O Socket http://paleotronic.com/2020/07/05/build-a-no-slot-midi-interface-on-the-apple-game-i-o-socket/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/07/05/build-a-no-slot-midi-interface-on-the-apple-game-i-o-socket/#respond Sun, 05 Jul 2020 03:44:57 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=13180 In today’s world of plug-and-play peripheral devices, it is difficult to understand the fundamentals of what is happening at the lower levels.  How does the computer connect to the device?  How does it communicate with [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/07/05/build-a-no-slot-midi-interface-on-the-apple-game-i-o-socket/feed/ 0 13180 The Amazing Amiga http://paleotronic.com/2020/01/18/the-amazing-amiga/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/01/18/the-amazing-amiga/#respond Sat, 18 Jan 2020 03:11:17 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=10278 The Amiga represented an evolutionary leap forward in computing’s creative potential. While colour computer graphics were not a new invention, the Amiga provided a video mode capable of displaying 4096 colours – previously unprecedented in [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/01/18/the-amazing-amiga/feed/ 0 10278 Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Returns! http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns/#respond Sat, 14 Dec 2019 07:30:00 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=9703 Did you miss it last year? Well, here’s another chance to check out Paleotronic’s 12 years of Retro-Christmas, a series of 12 mini-mags looking back at consumer electronics covering the years 1980-1991. It was the [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/14/paleotronics-12-years-of-retro-christmas-returns/feed/ 0 9703 A microM8 update and a glimpse into the future of Paleotronic http://paleotronic.com/2019/05/27/a-microm8-update-and-a-glimpse-into-the-future-of-paleotronic/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/05/27/a-microm8-update-and-a-glimpse-into-the-future-of-paleotronic/#respond Mon, 27 May 2019 02:13:51 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=4596 The latest update to microM8 adds a few new features and fixes a few outstanding bugs. Platoterm support Mockingboard enhancement Original Apple II and 13-sector disk support Compatibility improvements Taking microM8 (and Paleotronic) into the [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/05/27/a-microm8-update-and-a-glimpse-into-the-future-of-paleotronic/feed/ 0 4596 The Theremin: Sounds from Outer Space… and the future http://paleotronic.com/2019/05/04/the-theremin-sounds-from-outer-space-and-the-future/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/05/04/the-theremin-sounds-from-outer-space-and-the-future/#respond Sat, 04 May 2019 06:27:01 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=4363 It was 1927, the height of the Roaring Twenties and America had well-and-truly shaken off the yoke of Victorian conservatism, embracing more liberal social and artistic norms. The relatively recent technologies of audio amplification and [more...]

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