Originally published at: Custom device just plays the Monkey Island theme on a PC speaker | Boing Boing
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The best monkey island song
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It’s too bad that those greeting card modules can’t be reprogrammed. (Of course, if they could, pranksters would have a field day.)
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First off, nice hack. This is an impressive hack, and I like it a lot!
It just kind of amuses me that the ATtiny85 is a 20MHz 20MIPS chip… while it’s kind of intentionally hobbled by it’s architecture and limited RAM for it’s intended market, it’s actually a faster chip in terms of MIPS than the original game was designed to run on. 
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I dunno. Sounds like the MT32 version is the definitive version. I played it on mac, though.
Which Monkey Island is this from?
looks like curse, 3rd in the series.
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You are correct. I love 1 & 2 for their own reasons but the hand drawn animation and voice acting for the 3rd game was a joy to experience.
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Thanks! Monkey Island 1 had a huge impact on me when I played it as a kid (12ish), but it wasn’t until recently that I actually beat the dang game. I had to give the discs back to the kids that owned it and just never came around to it again. I had an HD remake on my desktop with the same animation (or similar animation at least) and voice acting that I played through earlier this year. Still love just how ridiculous that game is 
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The 4th one which was done in 3D is… very rough. It has some good gags occasionally but entirely worth skipping. 1 thru 3 are pretty solid.
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I think I’ve mentioned this before, but when we got married we made mix CDs instead of having a DJ or a band. We used the main theme from Monkey Island as the bridge from pre-dinner to dinner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6dVIQt_cSE
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That’s some spectacular hacking.
I built a sonic sabotage device using the ATTiny85 and this tutorial for encoding the audio, which is quite a bit simpler than the Monkey Island route:
I used it a la Burroughs to subliminally influence people in my town through a repeated word playing back on the hardware I built.
It’s getting closer to being able to play the whole game on your key fob-sized 386-equiv PC.
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