> Is someone planning to create a multigame PCB like
> Clay's Sega that would piggyback on the motherboard like BB's daughter
> card already does? (Looks like I must have missed that part of the
> discussion...)
>
That was pretty much what my original trolling was about. Wanted to see
if I should be working on hardware or if someone else already had it in
the works. My impression was that nobody was really doing the hardware
yet....
> ps - I still think the Cine universal sound card is a better place for
> everyone's efforts. But who am I to say...I'm essentially whining
> instead of doing, eh?
>
I'm voting for a generic sample-player board based on a cheap DSP. I'm
inclined to use the Analog Devices 21xx series since they're cheap; have
a $90 eval board with stereo autio in/out on it already; have a friendly
assembly language; and basically make a 3-chip system (DSP, EPROM,
CODEC). Just get good quality samples and let the DSP mix and play
whatever is needed. The same design would work for Sega, Cinematronics,
whatever... (Samples aren't the best, but if anyone was adventurous you
have a 33MIP DSP at your disposal to do something better. ;-)
-Clay
Received on Fri Mar 20 11:07:06 1998
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