TM>Hmm, I thought that it resetted the note playing, ie: it would go
 TM>through the ADSR loop again? I could be wrong.

 Don't think so. I'm pretty sure I set the attack/decay to 0, so it just
turned the note off.

 TM>Hmm. Have you tried this on a new SID? That feature/bug might no longer
 TM>be in service...
 
 No, havent actually. It could work, god knows what else they have changed
on the new sids. Will get back to you on that one (:

 TM>Well, that ain't so hard. Search through the code for a STA $D418, and
 TM>find out where it's getting that value from. Most SIDplayers will have
 TM>an ORA before it, to put the volume level and the filter level in
 TM>together. All you need to do is put this exact code into your sample
 TM>player.

 Yeah true, not too hard I suppose, unless there are more than one $d418
'poke'. Well as you seem to be the sid player expert, why dont you go
through some of the common ones & find them out? (-:

 TM>I have them seperate, as sometimes I don't which to lose any code
 TM>that's in the drive... ie: when I was testing my IRQ loader, I would
 TM>send something to the drive, reset the computer, then look at drive
 TM>memory via the AR monitor.
 
 Cool, well I doubt I'll do that much, so it doesnt affect me. I can always
just cut the wire (: Could even put in a toggle switch to make it nice
& flexible.

 TM>I'm considering putting another 24 LED's in to reflect the status of
 TM>the Address and Data busses... Though I think all I'll get are
 TM>flickering lights :D. Also, a few switches for ROMH, ROML, GAME, IO/1,
 TM>IO/2 etc.
 
 Yes, I think all you will see are lots of lights that appear to be on
continuously, unless your eye can catch things that are changing at a
million times a second (-: As for ROMh etc, you might as well make a cart
daughterboard, and put all that stuff on.

 TM>Oh yea of little faith... ;)
 
 Well, considering Epic has been 'almost finished' for literally 1 1/2
years, I have reason to be skeptical (: (sp?). Thank god TBH cant read this
echo, else I'd be a dead man (-:

 TM>Ok, it's not well documented, and I only have JCH's V15 (I think), and
 TM>DMC 1.2 (or 1.3 if you include my mods :). I reassembled them myself.
 
 Source doesnt really worry me, its more -how- the different effects work,
and what they are. The ultimate would be to create a player which includes
all known effects (well all the ones worth using anyway). One effect I
havent heard much is a slow pulse width sweep, ie one that takes about 5 or
6 seconds to do one cycle. you here this kind of effect in many techno
tracks (ie real ones, not sid!).

 TM>Well, I'd like that actually. I want a good player, and none of the
 TM>ones I have cut it...
 
 I might do a simple track/pattern player soon, just for samples. As there
are practically no effects you can do with a sample, all it is is 2 bytes -
sample #, and pitch. Might make the high bits of the sample # represent
'loop' (note stays on), and possibly 'vibrato' (about the only effect you
could to with a sample, ie sweep the frequency up & down). The loop
isnt too hard, the replay NMI routine instead of turning the note off when
it reaches the end, just restarts it. Anyway, will work on that one..
 In fact you could probably use the whole high nibble of the sample # for
effects, as you are not likely to have more than 16 samples per cannel
(samples eat memory)

 TM>Ok, but let's try and finish it first, eh? =) Hey look! An actual
 TM>Menace Utility!
 
 Yeah, well as you say, we have to finish it first (: If we can make the
sid & digi patterns 'compatible' then you have it made.

 TM>Eeek! What a mess! Oh well, not exactly what I'd call FTP, but hey...
  
 Yeah, well I'm not going to do it unless I am truly desperate, and its a
file I just HAVE to have. I've subscribed to 'hacking' mag, hopefully that
will work ok. (as long as it is sent in a message as text, its not a
problem - limit for messages is 2million or something chars (: )

cya, Strobe/Menace

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