[Coco] Including an SSC (was: CocoSDC)

[Christopher Barnett Fox]

Kandur,

I¹d be interested in the Speech/Sound cartridge if you still have it.

Christopher


On 20141010, 12:08, "Kandur" <k at qdv.pw> wrote:

>Glad, the Tandy Speech/Sound Cartridge is discussed here,
>I have one for sale, if someone is interested.
>http://tinyurl.com/kq3do6u
>
>Kandur
>
>Friday, October 10, 2014, 7:07:44 AM, you wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 6:49 AM, S Klammer <sklammer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Although Darren's CocoSDC is great on its own (I do have one)... since
>>>so
>>> many units are being requested, would it be a thought to try and
>>>include an
>>> onboard SSC and/or Orch90?
>
>> As someone who has extensively studied the internals of the SSC, I
>> would say it is not worth it.
>
>> http://tlindner.macmess.org/?page_id=96
>
>> The SSC is a whole extra computer sitting on the CoCo's bus. The MPU
>> is custom and not available.
>
>> It would be much better (for the software developer) for the PSG to be
>> directly connected to the CoCo. While this would suck for software
>> already written for the SSC. It would make new software more
>> streamlined.
>
>> As far as the Orch-90, that hardware is dead simple. Programs that use
>> the Orch-90 for sound don't usually do much else. The CPU overhead for
>> the device is huge.
>
>> Personally, I would not want the SDC to contain a major change on this
>>run.
>
>> A PSG and Orch-90 card would make a great project for the CoCo
>> development board mentioned elsewhere on the list.
>
>> Footnote: PSG: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_Sound_Generator
>
>> -- 
>> tim lindner
>
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