Re: Color Burst (was: A question about the PSG & samples)

1999-02-10 Thread Laurens Holst
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Jan-Lieuwe Koopmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Datum: dinsdag 23 juni 1998 8:15 Onderwerp: Re: Color Burst (was: A question about the PSG & samples) :Yeah, for example the V9938's color burst registe

Re: Color Burst (was: A question about the PSG & samples)

1999-02-10 Thread Jan-Lieuwe Koopmans
Alex Wulms wrote: |Are there any more undocumented features in the PSG, the MSX1 VDP and any |other chips used in the MSX which all programmers and other MSX fans should |be aware of? Yeah, for example the V9938's color burst registers... Some people say they are useless and some say they use it

Re: A question about the PSG & samples

1999-02-10 Thread Alex Wulms
] But this does not apply to the square wave generators. When you ] write a 0 to registers 0 and 1, what's happening is that you TURN OFF THE ] OSCILLATORS. Since the PSG uses active low logic, the signal on the output ] is set to "1" and don't change with time. Cool! After having been an MS

RE: Color Burst (was: A question about the PSG & samples)

1999-02-10 Thread Egor Voznessenski
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998 17:45:21 +0200, Erik Maas wrote: >Here are some idea's about the color burst : > >As far as I know you can adjust the color burst phase with it. >(Carrier that is send for a small time during horizontal sync to be able to >demodulate the color information) >If you have a RGB c

A question about the PSG & samples

1999-02-10 Thread Laurens Holst
--- I replied to a message in the newsgroup, but I'll post it here too. --- jrh heeft geschreven in bericht <6min86$h77$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... :You don't need any noise emulation, in fact on a real MSX both tone and :noise generators :are shut down when speach (or other digital sound) is generated

Re: Color Burst (was: A question about the PSG & samples)

1999-02-09 Thread Erik
Jan-Lieuwe Koopmans schreef: > Alex Wulms wrote: > > |Are there any more undocumented features in the PSG, the MSX1 VDP and > any > |other chips used in the MSX which all programmers and other MSX fans > should > |be aware of? > > Yeah, for example the V9938's color burst registers... Some peop

RE: A question about the PSG & samples

1999-02-09 Thread Erik Maas
onday, June 22, 1998 11:28 AM To: MSX mailinglist Subject: A question about the PSG & samples --- I replied to a message in the newsgroup, but I'll post it here too. --- jrh heeft geschreven in bericht <6min86$h77$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... :You don't need any noise emulati

Re: A question about the PSG & samples

1999-02-09 Thread Ricardo Bittencourt Vidigal Leitao
On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Alex Wulms wrote: > Are there any more undocumented features in the PSG, the MSX1 VDP and any > other chips used in the MSX which all programmers and other MSX fans should > be aware of? > Sean Young's page (www.msxnet.org) has a description of a undocumented MSX1

Re: A question about the PSG & samples

1999-02-09 Thread Ricardo Bittencourt Vidigal Leitao
On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Laurens Holst wrote: > === How to replay samples via the PSG??? === > You have to use an undocumented feature of the PSG. When you select a period of 0 in the register 6, the noise produced is just like the noise when you select 1 in this same register. Bu

Re: A question about the PSG & samples

1999-02-09 Thread Egor Voznessenski
Erik Maas wrote: > The MSX-Audio is not only capeable to play 4-bit ad-pcm automaticly, but this can be > done for 8 bit pcm is too. Not many people have used this feature, takes two times > more memory for the same time and samplerate. (PCM is better than ADPCM) How? I studied Y8950 data shee

Re: A question about the PSG & samples

1999-02-09 Thread Egor Voznessenski
Kari Lammassaari wrote: > >> The MSX-Audio is not only capeable to play 4-bit ad-pcm automaticly, but > this can be done for 8 bit pcm is too. Not many people have used this > feature, takes two >>times more memory for the same time and samplerate. > (PCM is better than ADPCM) > > > >How? > >I st

RE: Color Burst (was: A question about the PSG & samples)

1999-02-09 Thread Erik Maas
probably not very usefull. (Software that is monitor/TV dependant Who want's that?) Greetings from Erik Maas -- From: Laurens Holst Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 4:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Color Burst (was: A question about the PSG & samples) --

Re: A question about the PSG & samples

1999-02-09 Thread Kari Lammassaari
>> The MSX-Audio is not only capeable to play 4-bit ad-pcm automaticly, but this can be done for 8 bit pcm is too. Not many people have used this feature, takes two >>times more memory for the same time and samplerate. (PCM is better than ADPCM) > >How? >I studied Y8950 data sheet but don't rememb