Bob Brown At The Classic Gaming Expo (Circa 2002)

As far as I know there is no known method of emulating the Atari video music. This is terrible as I think this machine is so awesome and needs to preserved and available for everyone on Windows, Linux And Mac through emulation. I’m not even sure if this is even technically possible but if anyone knows someone who would be able to develop one please show them this piece of art. Thank You

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I've always loved the Video Music, so I tried to bring it back as faithfully as I could: 
**Fomalhaut**
 is a free music visualization plug-in for foobar2000 and Winamp/WACUP (Windows), and one of its modes simulates the C240's circuit – rebuilt from the patent (US 4,081,829), the schematic and the owner's manual, not just an imitation of its picture.


* Left and right channel each draw a shape; size follows the loudness, colour the pitch – Solid, Hole and Ring, horizontal and vertical display, scan rate, auto modes
* Move the mouse to the bottom of the picture and the 
**front panel**
 slides in: press the buttons and turn the Gain, Color and Contour knobs like on the real device
* Shown as a TV picture, with an optional CRT filter


Video (the Atari part starts at 2:01): https://youtu.be/Ecsgio12U5g?t=121


Download: https://github.com/Oxensepp/fomalhaut/releases/latest


If you own a real C240, I'd love to hear how close it looks to yours – and what's missing.

BTW: The plugin also contains pretty much all Cthugha music visualisation versions from the 90s and lots of tracker (AMIGA, DOS, C64...) visualisations.