Re: problems with soundsmith

[irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <1993Apr16.151204.8811@ifi.unizh.ch> gudat@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (gudat henrik) writes:
>Now that we're talking about the 64k limit: why does every company
>release a memory expansion board but nobody an Ensoniq DOC RAM card?
>
>The chip was designed to support 128kB, and the GLU got a bank select
>bit. Is it really that hard???

Actually the GLU itself has no bank-select bit, but the DOC does.  The main
problem is that on ROM 3 machines all chips are soldered, and the GLU is at
a 90 degree angle from its ROM 1 position.  Thus, boards would either have to
be a mess of clips or be ROM-specific (ack).  And there's the problem of making
the '816 see the extra 64k since the GLU doesn't have a select bit.


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