Tandy 1000RL Christmas Medley

[test540va]

Can you please play Cannon.sng File ? That was the first time I ever heard Cannon, on my Tandy 1000. So beautiful. Please do it ! I saw the file on your computer.

[Aithershine99]

And thus Vocaloid was born XD

[KartSeven1]

@vwestlife 5:02

[KartSeven1]

@vwestlife We wish you a merry christmas at 6:40

[dentunes]

Funny stuff. It says in the key of C using sharps yet it is in the key of F using flats lol.

Brings back memories of my old Tandy 1000SL. Awesome vid.

[16mmDJ]

The reproduction of the piano sounds surprisingly accurate to what some pianos sound like.

[SlimeTron5000]

do you know the title of the second tune after 'deck the halls'?

[16mmDJ]

@SlimeTron5000 yeah, it's "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"

[thecooldude9999]

that thing boots a LOT faster than your ibm pc

[Pinwormx]

Wow. I used to work for Radio Shack during college.

[Lachlant1984]

Are you going to keep this video up for next Christmas? I really love the different sounds the Tandy 1000 produces, it reminds me very much of those musical Christmas things you see in shops, I actually have a plastic model of a house with Father Christmas sitting on top of it, Father Christmas moves his arms and head around and the thing plays Christmas Carols that sound very much like this Tandy 1000.

[SlimeTron5000]

what is the second song

[KartSeven1]

@SlimeTron5000 God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

[RetroGamerVX]

Wow, you should take that thing on tour, it's awsome :o) Quite a fast machine too :o) I want one of these for the ultimate geekmass :o)

[Quaker763]

How I miss old sound cards that would play tones SLightly different to how they were meant to be played. Ahhh good times

[NJRoadfan]

Sounds like a glorified MOD player to me. Impressive that a sub 10Mhz can mix that many voices in realtime.

[Vinylrecordsneverdie]

Sound like a Nintendo game. Merry Christmas!

[Yarach]

what job do you have? I am just wondering.

[compactc9]

Considering how basic the sounds are, that really does sound pretty good, pretty good for 1987.

Merry Christmas

[umajunkcollector]

MS-DOS, GW-BASIC, autoexec.bat, config.sys to load DOS drivers, copying BASIC programs from magazines. I kept an old Packard Bell 486SX for running DOS and Win3.1 stuff. The only remnents of my Tandy days are a CGA monitor and a green screen monitor with composite RCA input. I may still have the dot matrix printer in the attic too. Old obselete confusers are fun to mess around with - DOS and BASIC are like riding a bike. Deskmate was funnage too, I actually liked it back then.

[lenoat702]

@umajunkcollector if they could pirate hardware the computer industry would be doomed

[TheDanielHolt]

That thing boots faster than any computers today, hah

[allboutk]

3:20 synth mania

[sk7ca]

totally AWESOME! :D love it!!

[lenoat702]

that was the fastest boot ever!!!!!!!!!!

[umajunkcollector]

@lenoat702 MS-DOS was great! Willie took Winders from Apple, and his DOS from UNIX. But I think he did invent Microsoft BASIC? btw, the mouse was a XEROX reject, that Apple took. IF it weren't for software piracy and copycats, Willy and Stevie would most likely be geeks working for BestBuys. heh heh heh I gotta give um credit for making the transition from main frames to home PCs back in the late 70s. DOS and BASIC ran on less than 640K-RAM and 360K floppies! Gigabyte that - GUI geeks?

[darkmagelover]

one guy is a hum bug

[thecooldude9999]

12:00:00 am its christmas

[englsprogeny]

Nice!

[umajunkcollector]

I bet WMG doesn't bust Tandy songs!!!

Waz that Deskmate? heh heh heh

[vwestlife]

@umajunkcollector Yes, it's DeskMate 3.04.

[umajunkcollector]

@vwestlife At least RadidioShackeroo did not COPY Apple's Winders like a certain billionaire did, and they gave it FREE with their confusers unlike Mr PAY me for the latest versions Willy boy.

The 1000 series was not 100% compatable with the XT/AT IBMs. RS had their proprietory thang going (like Apple). So Tandy was an innovator with their trash80 stuff - kewl stuff too. I had some of their early laptops, like the Mod 100, the 600.and the FT1400, Also had the opriginal 1000 and 1000HX.

[umajunkcollector]

I had many of RS confusers. The CoCo (Color Computer) series was a Commie, Apple, and Atari compeditor. I had the Model 10, and some CoCo's with lots of periferals. I did not have any of the Trash 80 Models (I, II, III, or IV). When they finally cloned the IBM stuff, I had many of their model 1000 series. Their stuff was good quality too. They were over priced, but the junk tables had super bargains. I got my 1stTandy 1000 system for around 2K$ (sale priced) in mid 1985. Freenet at 300 baud!!!

[bakonfreek]

whats a .sng file look like on a modern PC?

[vwestlife]

@bakonfreek It's similar to a MIDI file, but not compatible. The SNG file tells DeskMate which notes to play and which instruments to use. You could also record your own instrument sounds using the Tandy's microphone input.

[bakonfreek]

@vwestlife wow, people in the 1980's could do more than my dad ever told me was possible

[Dell0304]

isn't medly a food? =)