Re: If you were to put a graphics chip on an apple II card...

[Daniel Kruszyna <dan@krue.net>]

BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com> wrote:
> That's why I'm going for a new music format.  I always though the
> music replayer methodology of using a CPU emulation was kind of BS
> compared to a pure music format the likes of a mod or similar.  I get
> why the msx and speccy music emulators use cpu emulation to accomplish
> the goal, mostly for timing but also because it's easier to rip out a
> music routine than convert the data to a new format.  But I still
> don't agree with it because of its lack of portability.

The purpose of these replayers is to play music that has already been
written as accurately as is reasonable.  In the case of 1bit music, the
CPU _is_ the sound chip. I see nothing inferior about this approach. In
fact, I would love if someone added Apple II support to the
Game_Music_Emu library:

http://www.slack.net/~ant/libs/audio.html

-- Daniel