Re: IIgs peculiarities

[mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Feb 24, 11:33 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> Jeff Blakeney wrote:
> >   To: Michael J. Mahon
> > On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:59:35 -0800, Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>
> >>Charlie wrote:
>
> >>>Isn't there another 128KB of RAM dedicated to the sound generation chip?
>
> >>That's 64K.
>
> > But the Ensoniq is able to deal with 128 KB of RAM connected to it.  I'm
> > surprised no one has done a hardware hack to piggyback the RAM and
> > double the size of the sound buffer.  Imagine the MIDISynth wave banks
> > that could be made with twice as much room for samples.  :)
>
> I wonder if the toolset allows for 17-bit addresses, or the equivalent
> bank-selection bit...

Probably not, but that's easily fixed if the hardware hack is
doable ...