Comments on: Hacked Floppy Disk Drive Plays Star Wars Music http://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/27/hacked-floppy-disk-drive-plays-star-wars-music/ The Neat Side of the Web Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:47:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: music http://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/27/hacked-floppy-disk-drive-plays-star-wars-music/comment-page-1/#comment-1864154 music Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:02:26 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/27/hacked-floppy-disk-drive-plays-star-wars-music/#comment-1864154 Music exists because people create it, perform it and listen to it. People are living organisms, and biology is the study of living organisms. Music exists because people create it, perform it and listen to it. People are living organisms, and biology is the study of living organisms.

]]> By: marke http://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/27/hacked-floppy-disk-drive-plays-star-wars-music/comment-page-1/#comment-1863376 marke Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:34:32 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/27/hacked-floppy-disk-drive-plays-star-wars-music/#comment-1863376 Heres the Hackware: http://www.haikuware.com/directory/view-details/drivers/audio/floppymidi Heres the Hackware:

http://www.haikuware.com/directory/view-details/drivers/audio/floppymi di

]]> By: MrPumpernickel http://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/27/hacked-floppy-disk-drive-plays-star-wars-music/comment-page-1/#comment-1863308 MrPumpernickel Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:41:58 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/27/hacked-floppy-disk-drive-plays-star-wars-music/#comment-1863308 Or as it is more commonly, and correctly, called "The Imperial March". Or as it is more commonly, and correctly, called “The Imperial March”.

]]> By: Matthew Hall http://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/27/hacked-floppy-disk-drive-plays-star-wars-music/comment-page-1/#comment-1862978 Matthew Hall Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:42:38 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/27/hacked-floppy-disk-drive-plays-star-wars-music/#comment-1862978 This wasn't necessarily hacked: the Macintosh 3.5" drives were variable speed drives - they'd turn the disk slower when accessing the outer tracks so that more data could be written to a single disk (400kB as opposed to 240kB!). In fact, there was even a shareware program for the Mac 128k through the Plus back in the '80s that did exactly what the quote describes - played a variety of songs on the internal drive. -matt This wasn’t necessarily hacked: the Macintosh 3.5″ drives were variable speed drives – they’d turn the disk slower when accessing the outer tracks so that more data could be written to a single disk (400kB as opposed to 240kB!). In fact, there was even a shareware program for the Mac 128k through the Plus back in the ’80s that did exactly what the quote describes – played a variety of songs on the internal drive.

-matt

]]> By: Dennis http://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/27/hacked-floppy-disk-drive-plays-star-wars-music/comment-page-1/#comment-1862972 Dennis Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:23:51 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/27/hacked-floppy-disk-drive-plays-star-wars-music/#comment-1862972 Here's an article about it on the Official Star Wars Blog: http://starwarsblog.starwars.com/index.php/2009/03/25/star-wars-floppy-disk-ii/ Here’s an article about it on the Official Star Wars Blog: http://starwarsblog.starwars.com/index.php/2009/03/25/star-wars-floppy -disk-ii/

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