TM>That's a matter of doubt. Remember that using samples makes it a bit
 TM>difficult to use the filter (though not impossible, if the
 TM>sample-player and the SID player are intergrated well enough).
 
 Yep, that's true, there are problems with anything $d018 related,
including the filter probs, plus not being able to fade the
music/on/off.. (unless you stop the NMI routines..). If the sample player
routine could 'read' the sid players registers, and switch the filter bit
on/off as appropriate in its nmi routine, then there would be no probs.
difficult tho! (:

 TM>There's also a hardware modification you can do to 128's and 64C's,
 TM>which will make it into much the same as an older SID as far as samples
 TM>are concerned. I'm waiting for more info though.
 
 Yep, I've heard there are lots of mods to 'fix' the new new 64c's to work
like the original. I've even done one myself - reconnected the reset line
to the serial bus. So now whenever I hit reset, the drives automatically
reset themselves. Before this mod, if the drive locked up for some reason,
the only way to fix it was to on/off the
drive and/or computer, which is a hassle!

 TM>Bloody slack bastard (I can talk ;)
 
 I'll say! When's the mag due? (-: I'll have to get used to macro assembler
first, then I can do some REAL code (: The hacking mags are fantastic - the
article on how the Rob Hubbard routine works was very informative - will
make my 2 sample + 2 sid channel player much easier to write (just rip the
player code (: )

 Btw, I now have 'temporary' INTERNET access! I've sort of been borrowing
my dad's COMPUSERVE account, and getting onto internet from there. Read a
bit of comp.sys.cbm etc. Good to see some 'real' sceners there - bachus/???
(fairlight?) for example.
 Havent figured out FTP or any of the realtime chat though - I dont think
they are available through the compuserve gateway. Stuffed around with all
the compuserve ones though.. There are a couple of compuserve sites with 64
files, so I'll sponge some of them, plus the sites have chat channels as
well (though noone was home..)..  Will keep looking around, only been on
twice so far so probably missed a lot through inexperience..

anyway, chat later!

cya, Strobe/Menace

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