On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Sean Fahey wrote:
On Monday, January 30, 2012 1:45:30 PM UTC-6, Steve Nickolas wrote:Fortunately, a simple beep's all I need.Beep.
LOL.Actually, I'd been thinking of how I could design a "neovintage" computer, and put concepts of various computers into a blender. I figured for a CPU I'd use a 65C02, for video 6847, for audio AY-8910. As far as sound goes that meant the hardware would basically be a Mockingboard mapped to a different address. >:P
I prolly won't be able to design a physical version but I've been trying to design it practically, as in, would this work if the machine were really built with the tech of the time?
Conceptually, though, I could in fact implement it in *software* - just like one would implement an emulator. And if I needed to learn anything in the process, I could rewrite Dapple with the new knowledge too.
Implementing a system beep via the Mockingboard sounds impractical, but against the masterplan it was what I wanted to do.
(BTW, a Fine tone of "69" is closest, afaict, to the system bell. I think 80 sounds better though. And if I could somehow make a "dink" instead of a simple beep that would be nice too.)
-uso.