Re: Ultima IV music - Mockigboard MP3?

[Exegete <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com>]

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

Sorry, but the TI-99/4a used, strangely enough, a TI chip, the same one 
that was found in the IBM PCjr and the Coleco ADAM.

However, that chip also had three voices and a "white noise" generator.

The book, The Custom Apple & Other Mysteries, has everything you need to 
make your own sound card, including some software to run it. All (?) you 
need to do is find a source for the AY-3-8912 sound chip.

Roy

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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