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by TmEE co.(TM)
Tue Dec 19, 2006 5:02 pm
Forum: Sound
Topic: I made a discovery...
Replies: 32
Views: 26754

Stalepie, you didn't know that Stef is the author of Gens ? Anyway that HDD eraser was a great one !!! My computer class teacher freaked out when she saw it !!! :D :D :D Also I uploaded the sources for WAVPLAY and 960 color test on my site. I also updated GBMD (no blank screen with 6-button controll...
by TmEE co.(TM)
Tue Dec 19, 2006 2:17 pm
Forum: Megadrive/Genesis
Topic: Genny and 3D
Replies: 138
Views: 96410

Mistakes... 256px would have been better, but then it would not look and feel like Duke on PC I guess...
by TmEE co.(TM)
Tue Dec 19, 2006 2:16 pm
Forum: Sound
Topic: I made a discovery...
Replies: 32
Views: 26754

FM sound are analogue and therefore cannot be measured in Samples/Sec. But if it could it would be a lot for sure. FM synthesis is something I like, especially from MD !!!
by TmEE co.(TM)
Tue Dec 19, 2006 2:11 pm
Forum: Sound
Topic: I made a discovery...
Replies: 32
Views: 26754

I don't listen techno much, but I do listen metal, and if developers really want, they can produce quite metal guitar sounds, just listen Thunder Force 4 or Contra Hard Corps !!! RR series doesn't have so good guitars.
MCD has something SNES audio chip like thing inside.
by TmEE co.(TM)
Tue Dec 19, 2006 2:08 pm
Forum: Sound
Topic: how can i do music on megadrive?
Replies: 288
Views: 548603

Trackers don't have to do techno music. For example go to my site with MSIE or OPERA and listen the tune on index page. It is metal like something made with a tracker.
by TmEE co.(TM)
Tue Dec 19, 2006 2:06 pm
Forum: Megadrive/Genesis
Topic: Sega2.doc is enough, Really?
Replies: 23
Views: 21172

Yeah, I get that. Maybe I should put name tables into my PC games too... on MD they work really well.
by TmEE co.(TM)
Tue Dec 19, 2006 2:04 pm
Forum: Sound
Topic: how can i do music on megadrive?
Replies: 288
Views: 548603

Currently I'm messing with the RGB output of my MD2. RGB from the VDP not from the connector behind the system.
by TmEE co.(TM)
Tue Dec 19, 2006 2:03 pm
Forum: Sound
Topic: I made a discovery...
Replies: 32
Views: 26754

You're right !!! Good sound matters a lot, too bad that many todays games have not so good sound (read: music, sfx are quite OK).
by TmEE co.(TM)
Tue Dec 19, 2006 1:57 pm
Forum: Megadrive/Genesis
Topic: Sega2.doc is enough, Really?
Replies: 23
Views: 21172

Yeah, thats logical, more data to process means more time for processing therefore less time for "do whatever access time"
by TmEE co.(TM)
Tue Dec 19, 2006 1:55 pm
Forum: Sound
Topic: how can i do music on megadrive?
Replies: 288
Views: 548603

I'm just a crazy progmaholic hardware guy :wink:
by TmEE co.(TM)
Tue Dec 19, 2006 1:54 pm
Forum: Sound
Topic: I made a discovery...
Replies: 32
Views: 26754

Lack of FIFO sucks, but no one has complained about it and why to complain now ? For a while I was thinking of adding DACs to Glass Breaker MD cartridge, but then again, DACs with Enable signal were quite expensive and all the chips I would have have to use wouldn't fit into the cartridge AND none o...
by TmEE co.(TM)
Tue Dec 19, 2006 1:45 pm
Forum: Sound
Topic: how can i do music on megadrive?
Replies: 288
Views: 548603

Duke3D has definately z80 sound engine because when I overclocked z80 in my MD2, the sound quality increased a lot and that shows z80 does the sound. It is done @ 5KHz because I "listened" ROM dump from my cartridge and it sounded at correct speed when the sample was being played back @ ~5KHz
by TmEE co.(TM)
Tue Dec 19, 2006 1:34 pm
Forum: Sound
Topic: I made a discovery...
Replies: 32
Views: 26754

There are no FIFOs as far as I know, from all the Yamaha FM synths datasheets that I've read, I haven't seen any FIFO stuff. By sending 4 samples I meant: wait before write, send sample (do last two 4 times), wait in a delay loop, go all over again. This increases performance as 3 sittings in a dela...
by TmEE co.(TM)
Tue Dec 19, 2006 1:24 pm
Forum: Sound
Topic: how can i do music on megadrive?
Replies: 288
Views: 548603

Re: how can i do music on megadrive?

Pascal wrote:I'm pretty sure the, Z80 won't have the guts for a mod player, specialy that you'll have to mix in software all channels (and mixing is a killer)
Actually I think it is possible on z80, as in Duke3D there are 4 channels mixed together.... @ 5KHz
by TmEE co.(TM)
Tue Dec 19, 2006 1:22 pm
Forum: Sound
Topic: I made a discovery...
Replies: 32
Views: 26754

You certainly can !!! The method is read byte, play it, wait a little in a loop and start all over again. I you play several bytes and stay in a loop once, you'll get performance increase but the sound might get funny then. Once I had 16 to 8 bit conversion in the program too. I guess if you mix, it...