RE: Sound Chip

2007-05-09 Thread Geoff Winkless
David Brant wrote: I've been looking at the Coupe Technical Manual and noticed that the Sound chip ports are write only. So how did the demos show the sound volumes? Because the demo is writing the volumes out in the first place. Geoff

Re: Sound Chip

2007-05-09 Thread Colin Piggot
Hello, I've been looking at the Coupe Technical Manual and noticed that the Sound chip ports are write only. So how did the demos show the sound volumes? Yes, the SAA1099 is write only. To get fancy volume bars and frequency bars etc in demos, you just keep a note of the values that you OUT

Re: Sound Chip

2007-05-09 Thread Andrew Collier
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:40:42PM +0100, Colin Piggot wrote: To get fancy volume bars and frequency bars etc in demos, you just keep a note of the values that you OUT in your music routines to the soundchip's volume and frequency registers. I'm not sure if the compiled e-tracker player

Re: Sound Chip

2007-05-09 Thread David Brant
- Original Message - From: Andrew Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 12:42 PM Subject: Re: Sound Chip On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:40:42PM +0100, Colin Piggot wrote: To get fancy volume bars and frequency bars etc in demos, you just

Re: Sound Chip

2007-05-09 Thread Colin Piggot
Just done some digging about with the e-tracker player. For a tune compiled at 32768 (which is where i've always compiled a tune for so it can go at the start of any page), after each call to 32774, the SAA1099's register data for the soundchip can be found at address 33747 onwards. What the

Re: Sound Chip

2007-05-09 Thread David Brant
- Original Message - From: Colin Piggot [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 4:25 PM Subject: Re: Sound Chip Just done some digging about with the e-tracker player. For a tune compiled at 32768 (which is where i've always compiled a tune

Re: Sound Chip

2007-05-09 Thread Edwin Blink
From: David Brant [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you type: snip Comet will NOT come up with an error Like Andrew said Comet is a two pass assembler During 1st pass no errors are generated. Any undefined symbols on pass two will cause a error. Using undefined symbols in ORGs or in EQUs will cause

Re: Sound Chip

2007-05-09 Thread David Brant
It was just interesting that it did not trap the error. - Original Message - From: Edwin Blink [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 7:31 PM Subject: Re: Sound Chip From: David Brant [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you type: snip Comet will NOT come up