Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!pawl!kudla From: kudla@pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: synth sample Message-ID: Date: 28 Feb 91 15:56:48 GMT References: <16700@milton.u.washington.edu> <1991Feb19.154420.18799@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1991Feb25.125747.6411@news.nd.edu> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Lines: 18 In-Reply-To: treesh@ircsun1.helios.nd.edu's message of 25 Feb 91 12:57:47 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: jec406.its.rpi.edu >>>>> On 25 Feb 91 12:57:47 GMT, treesh@ircsun1.helios.nd.edu said: > it sure did completely freek me out! I would like to see an Apple ][, > or any computer for that matter preform the same trick!! Actually, I'm typing this at work on a PC terminal program which runs in the background when you want it to (and even beeps), but I'm also using a 386SX and about 2m of ram. Then again, my Amiga has very little trouble playing music in the background, if you can really call it "background" :) Seriously though, interrupts are very handy and I think they were a real boon to music on the 64... -- Robert Jude Kudla Memo to myself: do the dumb things I gotta do.