Comment by 🤠 shaved_yak

Re: "Anyone working on any non-CPU projects?"

In: s/FPGA

That's a neat format! I hadn't heard of it before. It doesn't really fit with my project though, since I'm going for more of a joke rather than anything practical. I thought the idea of storing a modern digital music format on an old analog one then intentionally ruining it with effects that make it sound like a tape again would be funny. Kind of like a musical successor to Tom7's reverse-emulated NES.

I'll be keeping an eye out for DCC equipment though... That would be cool to play with.

🤠 shaved_yak [OP]

Jan 08 · 4 months ago

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🤠 shaved_yak [OP] · Jan 08 at 20:50:

stack: oh, maybe I didn't explain it well. I'll be starting with a normal, high quality audio file and not original tape music. I'll be storing it digitally on the tape, and the digital data can be denoised because of the quantization.

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🤠 shaved_yak:

Anyone working on any non-CPU projects? — Most hobbyist FPGA projects that I've seen are homebrew CPUs or emulators for old computers or game platforms. They're cool projects and a rite of passage (I've got my own too), but I'm curious if anyone is working on anything totally different. My current project is an attempt to take audio off a cassette tape, decode it as digital data, then treat that as a stream of mp3 data and decode it on the fly - playing music without the noise, high-freq...

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