Koalamin 20

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malcontent
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Koalamin 20

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Here is a project, which is a spin-off of a C64 project I've been working on for a while, that allows you to control the sounds of the VIC-20 with the Koalapad. For unexpanded machines.

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http://sites.google.com/site/malcontentsgames/koalamin

I am not a musician, so I don't know if this can be used as a true instrument, or if it's just a neat sound toy, but I have seen my C64 version (watch for it soon!) used to play along with SID tunes successfully.

Alas I have not been able to play with it on real HW, so I don't know if the jitter will make it useless (or make it awesome!), but hopefully I can get some feedback. The relatively recent versions of VICE (2.4+) have koalapad emulation, but with vanilla 2.4, you can fake it with paddle emulation if you have to.

Source included, comments appreciated.
Last edited by malcontent on Mon Jun 20, 2016 1:43 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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RobertBe
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Re: Koalamin 20

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Oh, very interesting! I will try it out.

But will it play the theme song from Dark Shadows? ;)
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