In 1996, Greensboro, my roommate Paul hooked me up with a Juno email account. Juno was a special thing then, because it allowed us, without a dialup account, to use his low-powered computer and modem to send and receive email with the world for free. The client software would, at our prompting, connect to the …
Category Archives: Software
T.I.meout
Spinning off from the momentum of my JX-3P decoder, I’m attacking the TI tape decoder project again. Managed to successfully detect the tape dumps and get a bit stream, overcoming all the problems of the first attempt. But decoding the bitstream into program code is going to be harder than I thought. I was hoping …
JX-3P Tape Decoder, Decoded
A month or so ago I mentioned that I was working on a project to decode a Roland JX-3P patch tape dump into a spreadsheet so I could see the internal values of all of the patch parameters. I’m pleased to say I’ve finished that project. I’ve posted a full write-up with source code and …
C Tape
Currently working up a project that I’ve finally gained some momentum on. A year ago I set out to learn C, and my rationale for doing so was to write a program that could take all these computer tapes I have from the various computers I had in the late 80’s and decode their audio …
C Is for ANSI, That’s Good Enough for Me
In a bid to expiate myself, I’m currently reading “The C Programming Language, Second Edition.” Written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Richie, the inventors of the language, this book is the bible when it comes to learning the language. Most modern languages owe their existence to this one. All modern operating systems are primarily written …