[OLPC India] [Sugar-devel] TaalPulse

Nagarjuna G nagarjun at gnowledge.org
Tue Aug 3 23:50:50 EDT 2010


On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>
> On 03.08.2010, at 19:01, Sameer Verma wrote:
>
>> Found TaalPulse, a squeak-based VM:
>>
>> "A three-in-one lehra machine for the student of hindustani (northern
>> indian) music. Plays lehras (cyclical melody), thekas (rythmic base)
>> and tampura (drone instrument) all at the same time. Runs on desktop
>> PCs as well as PDAs. "
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/taalpulse/
>>
>> Has anyone tried this on the XO-1 (or 1.5)?
>
> Great find! Just tried it on an XO-1.5 - works fine:
>
> * downloaded TaalPulseImage-1.1.zip using Browse activity
> * resume zip from Journal, it opens in Etoys, choose "Extract all to...", choose /home/olpc (*)
> * run Terminal
> * type "squeak" (**)
> * TallPulse window opens
> * Squeak complains about a missing source file - click cancel at the bottom
> * click triangle to play
> * to quit, press ctrl-c in Terminal
>

It works great.  thanks for the link.  My son will enjoy it.

--
GN


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