Re: Cinematronics sound board behavior...

> It's quite a bit more primitive than the 8051. I believe the 8051 has
> a 16 bit pointer (The 'dptr'?) that can be used as a data stack, not

Nope. The stack is internal RAM only unfortunately iwht amaximum of 256
bytes.

> to mention a separate stack pointer, the ability to address external
> memory (RAM and ROM), a von neuman architecture that allows for easy
> access to data tables in code space. It can easily handle a "C"

Uh... the 8051 is Harvard, not Von Neuman.

> >buffer. The only reason that's done now is because that's what all OS's
> >want. A simple add+add+add+add+add/clip would work nicely (and does, I
> >might add).
> That's what I figure and what it sounds like Clay was planning on
> doing. If you start with smaller samples you can avoid the 'clip'.

You still want to clip anyway, though. If you have your samples at around
95% of maximum it works out great. Just don't do the add and divide
approach.

-->Neil

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Received on Wed Jun 23 16:14:15 1999