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Haha, I had a copy of that disk back in the day, but I certainly haven't thought of it in the last 30 years. Thank you for reminding me! While it was a bit of a
by Cockbrand 3y ago
Haha, I had a copy of that disk back in the day, but I certainly haven't thought of it in the last 30 years. Thank you for reminding me!
While it was a bit of a marvel to put an entire pop song onto an 880k disk, the not-so-hifi sound quality was already apparent back then. I guess they forgot to switch off the low pass filter by turning off the power LED.
- wslh 3y agoThank you for teaching us abot the low pass filter! I searched that after your message since I was not aware: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.amiga.audio/c/6wBXmBoOIro https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.amiga.audio/c/6wBXmBoOI...
- Cockbrand 3y agoOn the other hand, I just learned from your link that there apparently were A500s where the low pass filter could not be switched off in software. AFAIR, toggling the LPF in software was already possible in the predecessor, the A1000. Anyhow, coupling the LPF to the power LED (and having a software controlled power LED in the first place) is a very Amiga thing to do. It's one of the platform's many nice idiosyncrasies.