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from: Michael J. Mahon
date: 2009-02-23 17:33:34
subject: Re: IIgs peculiarities

Jeff Blakeney wrote:
>   To: Michael J. Mahon
> On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:59:35 -0800, Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> 
> 
>>Charlie wrote:
>>
>>>Isn't there another 128KB of RAM dedicated to the sound generation chip?
>>
>>That's 64K.
> 
> 
> But the Ensoniq is able to deal with 128 KB of RAM connected to it.  I'm
> surprised no one has done a hardware hack to piggyback the RAM and
> double the size of the sound buffer.  Imagine the MIDISynth wave banks
> that could be made with twice as much room for samples.  :)

I wonder if the toolset allows for 17-bit addresses, or the equivalent
bank-selection bit...

-michael

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