Mockingboard emulator (was: Late night musings...)

[jefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

geoff@seeker.the-hermes.net (Geoff Weiss) wrote:

>I know that the forementioned software is available (more available 
>with the 1WSW garbage added than in original form).  Yes, someone
>hack the software to get the Mockingboard emulation routines out.
>But, any Mockingboard-compatible programs would have to be rewritten
>to use such a driver and not access the Mockingboard hardware
>directly.

>Am I not making any sense?  Apple II Mockingboard software was written
>to access a slot-based Mockingboard.  Any Mockingboard software
>would have to be rewritten to use the Ensoniq chip.  Hacking the
>MDIdeas Christmas Demo will result in the drivers to make the
>GS Ensoniq communicate like a Mockingboard.  There still needs to be
>a way for the Mockingboard software to see the drivers.  Mockingboard
>software was not written to see software sound drivers.  Hence, to use
>the Mockingboard->Ensoniq driver, you will need to rewrite any 
>Mockingboard-compatible software to use a sofware sound driver.

The original post of this thread was musings about making an 8 bit
Apple II emulator for the IIgs.  That way, the IIgs could make 8 bit
programs THINK there was a Mockingboard in a slot and route that
information to the Ensoniq to produce the sounds.

Besides that, I believe there were patches put out for the Ultimas to
allow the Mockingboard music in them to be played through the Ensoniq
on the IIgs.  This technique could also be applied to other
Mockingboard aware software.