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@cjs I am sorry but you are the first user that ended up on my ignore list, so whatever you are trying to communicate to me - hold your breath, I don't care. Have a good day.

Again, this is exactly an example of this nit-picky line of argumentation: so I said "formal software quality measures" and for me this implies "proper documentation". You say documentation is not "formal" - big deal! It's the same argument. Again, read between the lines, try to understand the...

@cjs Well, you make a lot of assumptions and broad generalizing statements (which, in this broad- and boldness, I have only heard from very junior developers). Some of your assumptions that are IMHO unjustified: your opinions and criteria represents what GitHub developers want and need in...

@cjs, ok, so a couple of comments. First, thanks, so it boils down to and I agree - but that's why I started this thread, because I consider it unfair. Some people benefit from it, but not the original author. Like I said - if you use a FreHD, or any other piece of hardware / software and...

I think you are obsessing over the wrong aspects. But everybody is entitled to an opinion! I appreciate your opinion.

Sorry guys, I shared the German version earlier. But I meant to share the English version: Impressions from the workshop:

Well it's nice to be in such a comfortable and secure position in your career that GitHub repos don't matter and that you have the choice to flag these companies, rather than the other way around, good for you:) I think you are right - but it also largely depends on where you apply "as a...

I think https://musictech.com/guides/essential-guide/history-of-trackers/ Gets the attributation wrong. The first tracker was the 1986 Sound Monitor for the C64 by Chris Hülsbecks https://www.namelessalgorithm.com/computer_music/blog/soundmonitor/ I myself probably implemented the world's...

Right they can be terrible indeed. Amiga 500 I also had some very bad damage to the traces from battery, but was still able to bodge wire them.

I really hope that nobody is using "irreparable " (such a thing does not exist! ;)) M1 boards and scrapes them for chips to be plugged into replica boards... after all, we should try to preserve old hardware. I personally never came around a retro computer whose board was the problem, really. So...

That's such an interesting statement... as if designing the IO interface would have anything to do with the complexity of operation that the peripheral performs (also, it needs drivers and what have you!) It's like saying making a car is easy cause you only need to get the steering wheel...

Thanks all for the discussion. Correct, I don't intend to rant about anything - these are just my humble opinions and it is not meant as confrontation or something you should feel a need to comment on, so please don't get angry with me ;) Everybody is entitled to an opinion, and this is mine...

Yeah, TD, Depeche Mode, many more... Klaus Schulze was a buddy of Wolfgang (see 2nd video), and he used the PPG as well: https://www.soundonsound.com/people/klaus-schulze-digital-analogue-conversion Wolfgang Palm's original PPG wavetables are still used nowadays - for example, in Waldorf's...

A hugely successful and influential pioneer from Hamburg, W. Germany (my original home town!) was / is (!) Wolfgang Palm - with the PPG Wave and Wavecomputer, he literally invented digital wavetable synthesis. All the programming was done in Motorola 6800 assembly, without C compiler! His...

I guess in the sheer amount of number of components, for sure - but that's more of a "busy" kind of work that does not require any advanced (software or hardware) engineering skills or advanced understanding of the TRS-80 architecture, IMHO. That's why I am saying that novel designs are on a...

Here is a question - how come that extremely popular projects like FreHD https://github.com/veco/FreHDv1 - literally, hundreds of FreHDs out there! - are hugely outnumbered in the number of Github Stars by PCB replica projects such as https://github.com/RetroStack/TRS-80-Model-I-G-E1 I am...

Thanks for the kind words, @rootboy - glad you like it. Please consider contributing HEX files for the Microprofessor to the Github repo. Cheers, Michael

OK, only one left :)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/355650725594

No - it's an Epson S1V30120 board from MikroE. https://www.mikroe.com/text-to-speech-click Emic-2 uses the same chip and firmware though: https://global.epson.com/products_and_drivers/semicon/products/speech/voice/sla/s1v30120_sample_sw.html I basically re-implemented the Emic-2 using the...