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Music Using Floppy Drives

Posted by samzenpus on from the bachman-burner-hardrive dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Can't say I've seen many things that are more geeky than this: 4 floppy drives on a computer playing Toccata & Fugue based on MIDI input. It's a YouTube only video at the moment, but due to great response, the author is going to create a website detailing how he got it to work."

6 comments

  1. Meh. by Forty+Two+Tenfold · · Score: 1

    Try "Sabre Dance."

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  2. Cool. by webmistressrachel · · Score: 1

    This is great, however, the first "big chord" - e flat minor, I believe (I do actually play the organ and that chord is a bitch to play!) cannot be reproduced properly with this many drives, as it takes all ten fingers to play! Nonetheless, this is great, and gave me plenty of giggles! Roll out the site, Mr. Floppy Organ!

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  3. w00t. by ElectricTurtle · · Score: 1

    Fucking sweet. This should have been on the front page. Sure as hell would have been in /.'s first years.

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  4. music from old hardware by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    this dug up some hazy memories of a program for a Commodore 1541 floppy drive that made it play a tune

  5. C=64 had it also by DZign · · Score: 1

    I remember something similar back on the Commodore 64.. there was one demo that also controlled the cpu in the diskdrive to let it generate music.

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  6. I remember this... by EmagGeek · · Score: 1

    ... from the last 5 or 6 times it was posted to Slashdot.