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Amazing project. I remember having a C64 program that would play a tune using the 1541 disk drive.

• einr 4y ago
  See also: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=89362 https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=89362 -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zprSxCMlECA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zprSxCMlECA A demo, including music and graphics, written for the 1541 disk drive -- no, it is not a C64 demo, it runs entirely on the 1541 (which has a 6502 CPU and some amount of RAM in it)
• anyfoo 4y ago
  I remember that. There used to be all kinds of warnings about possibly damaging your drive and what not, that, retrospectively, were mostly overblown. But I guess the computer magazines of the time (almost my only source for this stuff back then) didn't want any liability in the rare case when. I also fondly remember one program that made the drive's red access LED pulsate really softly on and off. Not only was I blown away that the drive can do that (I didn't know what pulse width modulation was back then), LEDs were still somewhat new enough at the time that I might not have seen a softly pulsating one before. It was really pretty.
• vintermann 4y ago
  LFT, a Swedish demoscene guy fairly well known on HN due to his impressive exploits, has some lower key projects as well. One is for playing live music on the C64, and in this video he hooked up a 1541 as well: https://youtu.be/mbhQ36bd870 https://youtu.be/mbhQ36bd870
• jansan 4y ago
  Yes, it was "My Bonnie is Over the Ocean". We played it only once or twice because we were afraid that this could break the disk drive and there just was no money for a new one :)