revst/ring-device-emu

Sound device emulator.

I have a ring device that holds 16 melodies and produces a 'Mean ;-)' Meander sound.

Device is composed with a few microchips, the most important of them are two:

КР1012ГП3 - Generator of the upper tones of the tempered scale.

КМ573РФ2 - N-MOS ROM (2Kx8) 16Kbit = 2048bytes of music data. (Only 1024kb is used.)

I decided to unsolder N-MOS ROM for better needs, like reparing of old computers,

and also to dump a musical data from N-MOS ROM to file (ROM.BIN).

In place of N-MOS ROM an temporary buttons were soldered to create some kind of musical instrument.

(See images IMG_20220501_090701.jpg and IMG_20220501_091021.jpg)

Next I want to write a program for a dumped musical data listening.

And to use a Triangle (And colored Triangle) sound form instead of Meander.

Clean Triangle:

/ \ / \

Colored Triangle:

/ | \ | /

КР1012ГП3 can produce 32 tones, an multimeter was used to take a frequency readings.

Each byte of ROM.BIN data contains a 8 digits that can be interpretated as:

D0 - frequency select

D1 - frequency select

D2 - frequency select

D3 - frequency select

D4 - frequency select

D5 - 1-Interrupt with Pause / 0-No Actions

D6 - 1-No Actions / 0-Low Octave

D7 - 1-No Actions / 0-Stop

Place a ROM.BIN next to compiled RING.EXE for correct execution.