Re: Ultima IV music - Mockigboard MP3?

["Hidehiko Ogata" <hog@aqu.bekkoame.ne.jp>]

Rubywand wrote:

> > I've always wondered: is it feasible to implement
> > a pseudo Mockingboard emulator for IIgs, so that any access to AY chip
> > registers would be translated and redirected to those of Ensoniq chip
> > (i.e. no app-specific patch)?
>
> On a real IIgs, that would require a hardware mod plus firmware or
> software to intercept and deal with Mockingboard address accesses. Probably,
> you'd end up adding a controller. I don't think it would be a simple mod.
>
> The easiest hardware mod to get Mockingboard sound is adding a
> Mockingboard. (Making one from scratch is not too hard.) A patch to GS System
> might solve problems with old software compatibility.
>
> 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. ;)

(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".)
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