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Generate AM Radio Broadcasts With Your Monitor

Posted by chrisd on from the makin-some-music-via-the-db15 dept.

tessellation writes: "Tempest for Eliza is a program that uses your computer monitor to send out AM radio signals. You can then hear computer generated music in your radio." Here is your big chance to disrupt free thinking radio programs in your neighborhood.

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  1. Re:this reminds me... by FuegoFuerte · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Actually, quite a few of the games for the TI-86 have music. Mario does, and I believe Tetris does also. (at least the versions I had). I've since gone to the TI-92+, and haven't tried it with that. On the 86, I heard rumors that you could tune it with an AM radio, but you could also plug headphones straight into the data port (with an adapter to go from the 2mm to the 3mm plug) and hear the sound great. Someone actually wrote a program to play music that way, though you can't fit much music into the memory on the 86. Pretty crappy quality too. You can probably still find the programs and info on ticalc.org or somewhere. It's been a couple years, so I don't remember where I first found out about it.

  2. FWIW by adolf · · Score: 5, Interesting

    While the instructions say to use a shortwave radio tuned to 10MHz, I found that a regular broadcast-band AM radio worked fine. Just chop a zero off of the frequency, and tune in somewhere around 1000. (1030 was what my tuner said, at the point where the "music" was most plainly heard).

    Spooky stuff, this.

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