Microbee 1-bit music

[bushy555]

Hi All,
My first post!

I'm from the VZ20/300 scene - over the past few years I've been dabbling in porting over quite a number of the ZX Spectrum 1-bit music players to run on the VZ. About a week ago I had thought to try to get one working on the Microbee. A week later and I now have about 40 various bits of music from different ZX authors.

https://github.com/bushy555/microbee_1-bit_music

Some do sound a lot better than others - I have tested each in an old version of MESS. Most source code should be there should anyone wish to go further dabbling.  So far I have just been assembling them to 100h as .COM files.
I have been in touch with Alan - he was/is going to place a disc image with some of these into this fourm's software repository. 




Here are a few examples :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jil6W1oLxzo        Lets Go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU2Qv_bwOPg    Standing Wave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF3dtUdJbnc      Catching Up


cheers
Dave

[Under4Mhz]

Nice work. Having looked into writing my own 1-bit music player, I know how impressive these engines are. These 1-bit players push the limits of what's possible. I enjoy listening to them (on youtube)

If I could make a suggestion, I like having a Makefile in a project like this (being a unix programmer). That way I can build a project I've cloned and get right into using it. You do have the com files there which may be enough. I'd even suggest uploading a disk image with all the files on it, so we could try it straight away on an emulator.

[ChickenMan]

 You do have the com files there which may be enough. I'd even suggest uploading a disk image with all the files on it, so we could try it straight away on an emulator.

I've already done that, see ZX Spectrum 1-bit music tunes now for the Microbee on Disk (microbeetechnology.com.au)

[bushy555]

Added Shiru's 11-track 2023 Earshaver 1-bit album.
Assembled to .COM files to autorun/autoplay in MESS (thats all I have available to test)
Sounds great within the Emulator.
Located at the same Github location as posted above.

[ChickenMan]

Fantastic, thanks for those. I also have a few you issued later a couple years back so will put them all on the 3rd disk for all, like the original set you produced.