[Coco] SSC

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

also doubling to clock will double the PSG pitch.


On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Willard Goosey <goosey at virgo.sdc.org> wrote:

> On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 06:01:42PM +0200, Simon Jonassen wrote:
> > Have any of you guys ever programmed for the SSC ???? (speech sound
> > cartridge)
>
> It's pretty easy to make it talk, even from BASIC.  There's example
> code in the manual that Tim just gave a URL to.
>
> I've never done anything with the AY chip.
>
> It should be mentioned that a hardware fix is required to run the
> SSC at 2MHz. (Something about generating a -5 voltage from the Q clock
> or something dreadful like that.)  See
> http://webspace.webring.com/people/vt/theother_bob/coco_page/ssc_mod.htm
> (and hit "stop" when the actual page loads or it'll get stolen from
> you :-(.)
>
> Or even better:
> http://aaronwolfe.com/robert.gault/Coco/FAQs/SSC_hack.htm
>
> There is also a driver under OS-9 (included in NitrOS9) for the
> SSC. The descriptor is /ssp and the driver is sspak.dr but it also
> only talks to the speech chip.
>
> Willard
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