[Coco] Including an SSC (was: CocoSDC)

[Nick Marentes]

I've asked Darren some time ago if he could add code to the SDC to allow 
the use of the already included microcontrollers for sound.

And while it technically could do it, he said that he had used up all 
the available I/O pins for the SDC itself.

I would have liked to see some way of having a header included that 
could allow a daughter board add-on that contains another 
microcontroller with RAM of it's own for storing and playing sound samples.

The idea is that software would load various digital samples into the 
controller's memory and then simply tell the controller which sample to 
play. The sound would play with no 6809 CPU intervention and it would be 
mixed in with the existing 6-bit CoCo sound via the SND connection of 
the CoCo bus... just like the SSC.

Unfortunately, looking at the CoCoSDC, when mounted into a FD502 disk 
controller case (as mine is), there is very little room for any 
daughterboard in there.   :(

Nick


On 11/10/2014 2:02 AM, S Klammer wrote:
> Understood and would agree.  Just thought an addition of this nature, even
> if it were just a set of headers for a daughterboard, might have made it
> just that much more awesome :)
>
> Shain
> On Oct 10, 2014 10:57 AM, "Zippster" <zippster278 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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