Re: My Mockingboard Clone

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

TomCh wrote:
> On 3 Aug, 22:02, "Polymorph" <polymo...@a2central.com.remove-gu3-this>
> wrote:
>
> > I do plan on either doing a little programming, or trying to convert
> > some music from other AY enabled machines of the era.
>
>
> This is what I did some years ago, when I ported the Spectrum128
> Cybernoid1&2 players to 6502/Mockingboard:
> http://www.tomcharlesworth.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Cybernoid.dsk
> (Sorry it's a ProDOS 8 .dsk requiring a 65C02 - I will add the DOS 3.3
> version)
>
> Unfortunately it doesn't work properly on real h/w... it only works
> well on emulators (AppleWin and Virtual][) - proving our emulation
> isn't perfect! And I never found the time to debug it on real h/w (my
> guess is I'm hitting the 6522 too fast). If you are interested in the
> code for this, then let me know.

I guess this makes the 6502/65C02 difference moot!  ;-)

But ProDOS works fine on 6502 systems as long as it's not a
version 2.x ProDOS.

-michael

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