[Coco] EVEN MORE 1 BIT MADNESS !!

[Steve]

Art, the advantage is you don't large tables of waveforms to recreate 
the note.  Very handy for a for earlier CoCo 1/2 with limited ram/rom 
space.  The "We got You" from mega-bug used a much smaller data table 
because it was just a one-bit "flip" waveform.

With the CoCo3, we got not only more ram, but larger ROMs too. This gave 
us the space needed for larger data tables for DAC music and sound FX.

Steve


On 1/20/2014 1:21 PM, Arthur Flexser wrote:
> Simon, could you refresh my memory (if you mentioned it before) what
> advantages using the single-bit sound might have over the usual 6-bit DAC?
> Or, are you just looking to establish how decent it can sound and whether
> the processor demands can ever be minimized to the extent that it would be
> practicable to use it in games?  (Which I don't mean in any negative way at
> all--a lot of the fun of a CoCo is trying to push its limits.)  Right now,
> it appears that the DAC has the advantage both in sound quality and
> processor demands.
>
> Art
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