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First, I have to say that my EM address will change in the
next weeks. I don't know for sure what it's going to be, but
no need for haste...
A lot of people replied my letter about the R register
(flash trivia: did you know that Spectrum programmers thought
it was a "secret register"? I'm not kidding and have no idea
where they got that notion...) The use of it as a random number
generator is obvious (if not read too often, of course). Setting
it up, though, seems a dangerous operation on some computers...
Maybe it could be used for... Crashing the computer? Genetic
algorithms with real random mutations? Some kinds of computer
artwork...?
Maarten ter Huurne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) replied:
>> (...) can SCC memory (or registers, whatever you call them)
>> be read? (...)
> The instrument data (#9800-#987F) is read/write.
> The other registers (#9880-#988F) are write only.
> (...) If you want to know more about the SCC, mail me. Right
> now, I am digging deep into Konami's replayer routines (...)
Oh no, not again, write-only registers! No, no, I'm okay...
Really... Just let me take a deep breath... (Sigh...!) So, I'll
have to keep track of what the SCC playback routines are sending,
isn't it? Hum... That's the same with the MSX-Music... So, my
game music player (Yawara) will really take some time to be able
to play SCC musics...
Thanks for the offer of help, but I won't need it, by now.
I have some Konami SCC routines already disassembled, found the
"interface entries" (the routines that, like a BIOS, allow the
program to send data to the IC) and... and dropped the whole
thing for more "urgent" matters... My turbo R was TV-less for
the past year, but now I'll be able to set it ready to breakout!
Hope I can release a new version of Yawara soon...
Anyway, thanks for everybody that took the time to read my
letters seriously...
... Cyberknight, in the winds of change...
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