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>In article <Pine.BSI.3.96.970828195504.7812B-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, you wrote:
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>>That's right. I suppose if you generate the waveform on the fly that even
>>simple sound hardware like the Apple II will suffice.
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>Heck.. if you're generating the waveform on the fly you could probably do
>it with Timex-Sinclair ZX-80. ;) As long as there's 1-bit available
>for sound you should be able to do it.
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>And speaking of generating the supercharger waveforms on the fly...
>I recall once we were speculating about adding a "save game" capability to
>the 2600 games that didn't use codes by using the 2600 to generate a
>supercharger waveform that could be saved to tape.
I bet that would only work if you could somehow get the program to generate
a waveform for itself. A self-copying program, if you will.
If the 2600 could put out a Supercharger signal, it would be proof that any
machine could.
Kevin Horton used a Z80 program to generate a Supercharger waveform with
one bit. The signal doesn't even have to really be sound, just a binary
signal. That's all a square wave is: 01010101.... This means, if one is
so inclined, one could send out the signal through a joystick port.
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