Play

On 28th March 1990 Play was born. The first version just loaded a sample at a fixed frequency and played it through the speaker. It had to be hand crafted assembly code since my development machine was only a 10MHz 286. Version 1.0 was born, with only 440 lines of code, and a 1492 byte executable. Play got a graphical user interface for DOS by April 1990, using libraries all coded in assembler. Later that month I worked on circuits that could do sampling through a A/D connected to the parallel port. Play was given rave reviews by several UK magazines in 1991-2 and was included on magazine cover disks. In 1991, Play was distributed with the Activision game "Leather Goddesses of Phobos II".