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Hello all,

I've been programming the ATtiny2313 to generate
monophonic, square wave beeps (you could call it
'music' with a bit of imagination). The code was
based mostly around the delay function.

I'd like to try polyphonic audio now- still using
simple square waves. As the time needed per
calculation is now variable and/or the wave forms
more complex, I can no longer count on the delay
function. So instead, I wanted to make the code
interrupt-driven.

However, I don't seem to manage to get even nearly
enough interrupts per second to generate audio.
I would need about 16000 interrupts per second.
The ATtiny2313 is running at 8 MHz. Is the 2313
simply too slow for the task? Surely if a lowly
286 could feed audio to a DAC, the ATtiny2313
should be able to handle the load as well?

Best,
Marc