[Coco] Speech/Sound Cartridge Emulation just added to MAME

[Ron Klein]

Hi Tim,

Congrats, sir!  I am so happy this got accepted into the MAME.  It's great
to have another piece of Coco nostalgia preserved in emulation for all to
enjoy!

Thanks!

-Ron


On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 9:31 AM, tim lindner <tlindner at macmess.org> wrote:

> The MAME that will be released on June 28th (0.187), will include a
> new slot device that allows everyone to emulate the S/SC with the CoCo
> drivers.
>
> If you compile MAME on your own, you can test it out now by
> downloading the official source:
>
> https://github.com/mamedev/mame
>
> This is something I've been working on for a long time. But I'd first
> like to thank a few people who helped:
>
> 0. Nathan Woods - for his tireless work on the CoCo drivers in MAME.
> 1. Frank Palazzolo - for dumping the ROM in the PIC-7040 (neé TMS-7040).
> 2. hap - for writing the TMS-7000 microcontroller core.
> 3. Joe Zibiciak - for all his work on the SP0256 speech chip reverse
> engineering and emulation.
> 4. Couriersud, RBelmont - for the AY8910 Programable Sound Generator
> emulation, a long time core in MAME
>
> The new ROMSET can be downloaded here:
>
> http://www.macmess.org/downloads/coco_ssc.zip
>
> It contains the masked ROM from the microcontroller and Speech chip.
>
> To activate the slot device, put the ROMSET in your ROMs folder, and
> "insert" the S/SC into the expansion port like this:
>
> ./mame64 coco2b -ext ssc
>
> Using it with a floppy disk controller will require a Multi-Pak (just
> like real hardware):
>
> ./mame64 coco2b -ext multi -ext:multi:slot3 ssc -flop1 SSC.dsk
>
> The floppy controller is automatically in slot 4 so you don't have to
> specify it.
>
> Here is a link to a disk image of sample programs:
>
> http://www.macmess.org/downloads/SSC.dsk
>
> Here is a list of programs that use the S/SC:
>
> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Speech/Sound_Cartridge_(26-3144A)
>
> And here is the link to my page about this device that includes
> everything I know about it:
>
> http://tlindner.macmess.org/?page_id=96
>
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