FlexibleFactory

After writing an article for FlashBrighton about audio and Flash, I spent a while messing around with audio synthesis in Flash. The project has become a modular, xml powered synth engine, but has lost quite a lot of momentum recently. So instead of a grand launch, I’m going to release in bits and bobs, going back over early wins on the project. Here’s a Flex prototype that I wrote not long after releasing the initial article over a year ago.

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One weekend in November last year, I decided to port the wonderful Sinclair ZX Spectrum of olde to Flash using the Flex SDK, Flash Develop + an eclipse plugin from OSFlash which does the donkey work of porting Java to Actionscript.

I never blogged about it at the time because let’s face it, blogging is hard work and takes up valuable time. But now someone else has released one I am being urged to bring mine into the light of day.

The ZX Spectrum was my first computer and was given to me by my father at the age of around 11. It therefore has a very special place in my heart.

I started with an open source implementation of the ZX Spectrum written in 1997, Jasper 1.1 by Adam Davidson & Andrew Pollard.

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