#WeekOfPatching ⨯ #OldComputerChallenge day 2
uneasy SuperCollider chords clocked by network pings 👽
- MacTCP Ping on the PowerBook 160 sends out ICMP pings over the network
- pingtrig, my pcap based program, captures them on the EeePC 900 and converts to OSC https://codeberg.org/pulu/pingtrig
- SuperCollider (also on EeePC) runs a state machine based chord pattern with synth parameters modulated by statistical properties of the ping timing
#Macintosh #VintageApple #RetroComputing
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