Music! | Classic retro game for the Commodore PET Computer (1980)

MUSIC! is a fun little program where you can play melodies on the PET keyboard, record them, and save them to tape or disk to play back laterk. The PET displays the notes you play on a musical staff drawn in PETSCII. As you play each note, the computer counts time and tries to make a reasonable guess at notating the rhythms you play.

The PETSCII notation is clever but ultimately the notes are ugly and that detracts from the overall aesthetic presentation of the program. While the timed note-entry feature is quite novel, it's hard to get the PET record precisely what you want to hear.