Re: Ultima IV music - Mockigboard MP3?

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Hidehiko Ogata writes
> 
> Rubywand wrote:
> 
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> >
> > For now, it's simpler to modify existing Mockingboard applications as
> > needed to work with a Mockingboard plugged into a IIgs.
> 
> Erm, it would be the easiest and simplest yes... but come on!  Don't you
> think it would be *neat*? (I'm a total sucker for brilliantly silly
> over-engineering job, a la Wile E. Coyote. ;)

     Those are, indeed, neat. Did bunches back in our KIM days; plus quite
a few on our trusty II+. One of the more cool was adding a way for
the II+ to have several new display modes for mixing Text and graphics--
like you can put the Text at the top, intermix lines of Text and
graphics, have a large block of Text, ... . All of which are, naturally,
non-standard and, so, only useful for in-house programs.

     A very neat and fairly simple mod was the one which absolutely
forces the Text displayed beneath graphics to be monochrome. (No more
'rainbow' Text.)  It requires adding a clamping transistor across the Color
control of the monitor, though.

     Anyway, modifying a IIgs to use it's sound system to act like a
Mockingboard for all standard MB software would (as far as I can tell) be
a new level in over-engineering.


> 
> (Mmm... there seems to have been a home-brew MMU project by a C64 guy.
> Anything similar for ][?  The page seems to be down
> (http://home.hccnet.nl/g.baltissen/74ls612.htm), but you can read it off
> google's cache by searching for "74LS612".)
> --

     Thanks for the link (it's working again). The site has some pretty
interesting projects.



Rubywand