Re: Ultima IV music - Mockigboard MP3?

[Blake Patterson <blake@blakespot.com>]

In article <20030421042640.18862.00000652@mb-m05.aol.com>,
 mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote:

> >To answer my own question...
> >
> >http://www.applevault.com/ultima/
> >
> >...seems a 1-mockingboard rig, as far as I can see.  Still...great!
> 
> Actually, it says that the music was "rendered" by a Phasor board,
> which is the musical equivalent of two Mockingboards.
> 
> However, the page also points out that only Ultima V supported
> more than one Mockingboard (six voices).
> 
> -michael


You'd think I'd have read the small title paragraph in full now wouldn't 
you.  :-)  ...but then it seems you didn't either...  A single 
Mockingboard, as the page points out (and the Mockingboard spec sitting 
way back in the dusty recesses of my mind tells me), a single 
Mockingboard supports 6 voices (it has two Yamaha AY-3-8910 3-voice 
sound chips on-board, the same chip but twice in number of that used in 
the TI-99/4A, Atari ST, MSX machines, etc.)  Two Mockingboards, or a 
Phasor (which has 4 of the AY-3-8910's), support 12 voices.  

BUT - I am almost _positive_ that I recall Ultima IV having setup 
options for two Mockingboards.  I never had Ultima V so I can't be 
remembering that.  Hmmm...






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