I've heard of such things being done on the Atari 26000, mega drive, master system, etc., but has it been attempted for the PC Engine? Would it be possible?
to do what exactly? making music with its sound chip?
possible is almost everything.
It's possible. I've talked about it before. I could probably rewrite a Parse/Play PSG thing I did awhillllle ago to act as a live-playing library for it.
You'd just need someone who wants to dick around with the expansion port enough to make the hardware.
Ooh, now this would be interesting. Playing some chip tunes through a Roland MT32 or Sound Canvas.
I was thinking about it the other way, where you use MIDI in to control the PCE with an external device.
Going out would be a bit more work probably
A MIDI in box would be kinda cool, but it'd take an EE guy to make a board and/or UART.
I added live note playing to my PCMgine program a few months ago via a 6-button pad, so adding MIDI would at least be more possible now.
Quote from: ccovell on 04/28/2014, 05:39 AMA MIDI in box would be kinda cool, but it'd take an EE guy to make a board and/or UART.
I added live note playing to my PCMgine program a few months ago via a 6-button pad, so adding MIDI would at least be more possible now.
Yeah, the only person who ever sort of said it'd be doable/possible is Charlie, but I doubt it's really a priority lol.