Atari Punk Console: Difference between revisions

The original circuit, called a "Sound Synthesizer", was published in a Radio Shack booklet: "Engineer's Notebook: Integrated Circuit Applications" in 1980<ref name="enica">[http://www.jameco.com/jameco/pressroom/punk.html Engineer's Notebook: Integrated Circuit Applications], Jameco</ref> and later called "Stepped Tone Generator" in "Engineer's Mini-Notebook – 555 Circuits" by its designer, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Mims Forrest Mims].<ref name="emn">[https://web.archive.org/web/20130822030621/http://feenelcaos.org/wp-content/upload/Forrest-Mims-engineers-mini-notebook-555-timer-circuits-ra.pdf Mini-Notebook], Radio Shack - archived</ref> It was named "Atari Punk Console" (APC) by Kaustic Machines because its "low-fi" sounds resemble classic Atari console games from the 1980s, with a square wave output similar to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600 Atari 2600]. Kaustic Machines added a -4db line level output to the circuit which was originally designed to drive a small 8-ohm speaker.