Deep Dive: Audio Bus Architecture
Centralising modem, line, backend, and peripheral audio in a single bus system, and why fewer hops beat fancy decoupling.
6 articles tagged with "audio"
Centralising modem, line, backend, and peripheral audio in a single bus system, and why fewer hops beat fancy decoupling.
How a deadpan text adventure about mild chaos became the BBS system's most extensively tested game—79 tests, procedural honk audio, and a migration ending instead of game over.
Shipping the TI CC-40 backend with authentic CALL commands and audio, plus a full IVR phone tree system.
Floppy, hard drive, and cassette peripherals with Kansas City Standard encoding, plus a peripheral audio bus that makes the machine feel physical.
When 300 baud isn't enough—simulating faster modem handshakes with phase modulation, training sweeps, and the controlled chaos of negotiation audio.
Implementing the 1962 modem standard that made 300 baud dialup possible—FSK modulation, Goertzel demodulation, and the two-band trick that keeps full‑duplex honest.