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- From: kimble@mistral.co.uk (Nick Macro)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.psion,alt.music.techno,alt.music.hardcore,comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Subject: Work In Progress
- Date: 3 Apr 1996 06:07:24 +0100
- Organization: None whatsoever.
- Sender: nick@kimble.mistral.co.uk
- Message-ID: <4jt12c$867@kimble.nexbri.org.uk>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: l56.mistral.co.uk
-
- My psion 3a's microphone is broken. How an I fix it?
-
- While I am in the case, is there a modification that Psion can
- recommend that gives me headphone out and microphone in, as I feel
- that the Psion 3a rather lacks these.
-
- Pulling .wve's off a remote PC does not work real time, and a 4 min
- techno track as a .wve takes up the whole Psion 3a! A mod file player
- would be nicer, but I am stuck at the moment on getting 4 tracks of
- amiga sample audio through one channel. Its not impossible. I would
- do some work on wavmod (the mod stands for modify not
- Sound/Pro/Tracker module which is very nice, but samples is not
- enough, expecially as I have broken the microphone and so cannot
- sample. Idiot I am with a sharp instrument.
-
- What is needed is an analog synth with digital filters. I am going to
- look into porting sapphire<sp> to the Psion 3a from Unix. This renders
- a digital filter pipeline into a .wav.
-
- I have been doing lots of FFT frequency plots on 'mxv' on linux of all
- my favourite acidcore tracks. I think the noise I like, the 303 noise,
- gives the following time/frequency plot:
-
-
- f/Khz
-
- 0 3 6 Event/Sequence/cubase
- +---------------+
- 0| \=\ | ---- portamento up noise
- | \=\ |
- 1| |=| | ---- end portamento
- t/s | |=| |
- 2| /=/ | ---- portamento down noise
- | /=/ |
- 3+---------------+
-
- Any ideas/clues for a hopeless acidcore fiend?
-
- Kids love Psion 3a's. The keyboards are just perfect size!
-
- I have been copying each Psion 3a 2M file system incarnation into my
- home directory. Anyone interested in having these on the net
- somewhere as a sort of online running 'Nick's Psion cache directory'
- sort of thing. So far I have:
-
- Sound development:
-
- Piano - Cheesy beepy piano thing
- musipoc - Cheesy two voice melody thing
- wvemod - Sample editor, like Protracker on Amiga or mxv on Linux
- Very very nice.
- lots of fun samples
- sapphire - When compiled up with smallc, hardcore non-realtime
- digital signal processing and synthesis.
-
-
- Sound Potential:
-
- bab.wve - 1.7MB of babdobelin.mod from aminet mods techn, wicked,
- loud and digital all the way down to the Psion 3a speaker
-
-
- Kiddies games (keeps them quiet!): Only beaten by gamelan.
- bunnies - Clone of original ZX Spectrum Platform & levels
- tank - 3d tank duel, seriously good 3d like elite
- stigma - quite state of the art arcade game
- tron - two player, amazing fun
-
-
- Program development (just dreaming)
-
- Small C - Nice.
- revtrans - to reverse engineer others OPL and rip bits out
- docs - from Psionics, system calls
- assembler
- disassebler
- Small C decompiler - using j2c from java as template.
- macro processors
- shells
- window managers
- tighter RPC - IPC - TCP/IP - NFS - device binding with Linux Box/Internet
- Entire GNU/Linux command set and window managers
-
-
- My current theory is that the 2M of Psion RAM is just the local cache
- of all the packages I have on the Linux box, and hence the Internet.
-
- RCOM is very very nice the way you can access ALL Psion drives on PC
- and, best of all, all PC drives from the Psion using REM:: . That
- wasn't expained very well. Now what I want is to be able to reach
- whole Linux file system from Psion. Then I can NFS link
- sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk to the Linux box, and hence to the Psion, and get
- files off the Internet into the Psion FROM THE PSION something like:
-
-
- REM::/mnt/sunsite/pub/psion/devel/*
-
- or
-
- cp /mnt/sunsite/pub/psion/devel/* /psion/mnt/LOC::M
-
-
- Wow, that would be sexy. Getting closer to Java all the time.
-
- Anyway, any sign of the TCP/IP stack? Unix compatible C compiler?
- Terminal program? Modfile player?
-
- Insidentaly, the reason freeVT sucks is that is doesn't have
- Xmodem/Ymodem support. Upon reading the manual in Psionics it says
- that Xmodem/Ymodem is built into the EPOC OS as layers on a device
- driver, so it shouldn't take much to get it working. Sort it out, eh?
-
-
- Why has nobody given me a copy of the SDK yet, warez style? Go on, I
- can't afford to buy it, not on 35 pounds a week Giro (the Psion was a
- gift) and the newsgroup is full of people just begging those with the
- compiler to 'O please compile up something you powerful rich people
- with the means of production.' You might even get some java/Psion
- crossover ported stuff.
-
- Come on Psion INC/PLC/Mega Corp, you are inhibiting the development of
- the Psion with your petty profiteering. I will get a copy of the C
- compiler one off someone else, anyway, but it would be a nice gesture
- on your part. ? How many copies have you sold? Give it and info away
- for free or Linux / GNU / Sun / Java / The-Whole-Damn-Internet will
- laugh and leave you behind, despite the best efforts of all these nice
- folks.
-
- Do you even read your own newsgroup?
-
- Yours Nick Macro
-
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