Thanks Roman! Looking forward to seeing the Windows version... hope it handles =
larger buffer, I remember looking at the DOS one and it did I think 64K.....

Richard.

 >>  Thanks Kevin! A few people are using my PICsound
 >>  1-bit and 1.5bit system now. Has advantages over
 >>  PWM in that you only need to turn the PIC pin on/off
 >>  at each timed cycle. No PWM timing needed. It also
 >>  gives 8:1 compression compared to 8bit PWM, but does
 >>  need to be run slightly faster, generally works out
 >>  at about 4x to 5x smaller sized sound sample than
 >>  8bit PWM for similar sound quality.

 >>  If you have enough sound storage ram you can get
 >>  high quality sound using 30+kbit/second rates, it only
 >>  takes a few PIC instructions to set the output pin
 >>  hi/lo so even stereo data rates at 22kbit/sec etc
 >>  are easy on a PIC.

 >>  The encoder.exe is Dos based and runs on most dos/w95/w98
 >>  pcs with some fiddling (needs 1024/768 video).
 >>  Now this project is getting more popular I *have* started
 >>  work on a Windows version of the encoder, should be
 >>  done in a week or so. :o)
 >>  -Roman


 >>  Kevin A. Benedict wrote:
 >>  >
 >>  > Hi Richard,
 >>  > I saw people recommend Olin's Hal project,
 >>  > but, you also might want to consider Roman Black's
 >>  > Pic Sound page at http://www.romanblack.com/picsound.htm
 >>  >
 >>  > ~Kevin
 >>  >
 >>  > >How can you make nice tones or sounds on a small speaker connected to
 >>  one pin?
 >>  > Is this possible? Square wave tones are very harse and not very musical.
 >>  I would
 >>  > like to have sounds kind of similar to bleeps and blurps found in Las
 >>  Vegas
 >>  > gambling machines.

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Thanks,
Richard Sloan
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