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for the benefit of anyone who want's to become aquainted with the 2 voice player (standalone version), then you can download the .asm source here: http://www.roust-it.dk/coco/dragon this has been software timed, so it should work on any coco/dragon there's a couple of example tracks in there and a p...

Yes the player can be used standalone

the XM files can be converted to assembly data using a perlscript (make 2 channel xm files using channel 1/2)

/Simon

OH YEAH !!!!

ALIENS HAVE TAKEN OVER THE COCO / DRAGON

and yes it works on a REAL COCO II !!!!

ok, we did the musical tapeloader thing.... but the performance of that left something to be desired before we could reach c64 SID type levels while loading tape... after alot of headbreaking and back/forth discussion with numerous ppl (thank you John Kowalski for pointing me in the *simple* directi...

Hey guys For anyone who want's to see the 58 byte player that fuels the tapeloader routine, here you go: this is fully pattern based - you can use an XM tracker on windoze to compose for it.... perl converter included here...... *if* you decide to use this, please credit *where* it came from :!: htt...

*IF* this speech cartridge is *ANYTHING* like the tandy SSC then it has a PIC chip in front of the SPO/AY.....

if thats the case, then I have a listing of whats inside that PIC 7040

/Simon

Sorchard

Now we've done it the easy way, we're going to try to do it the hard way and see what we get

YUP !

/Simon

well the AY chip is also stuffed inside the coco SSC (speech sound cartridge).... but tandy did a *bit* of a botch job.... they stuffed it behind a PIC chip.... yes you can access the AY registers directly (not quite) - it's thru 1 address.... you have to poll to see if the PIC is busy... /Simon :-)

WICKED !!!!

but then the cpc has the AY sound chip.... we only have the DAC, so alot more cpu power required...

/Simon

Taking the 58 byte player (serviced every 340 cycles) and another idea, musical tapeload.... I put the idea toward sorcahrd (was hmmm... maybe) - i disected the coco basic rom code (byteload/bitin etc) and presented him with what i had found, over the last 3..4 days we have cooked this: https://www....