In article , you wrote:
>In article <3.0.1.32.19971018161505.0071b6e0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, you wrote:
>>>Anyone got any information on how exactly activision implimented the
>>>pokey chip in the Pitfall][ cart?
>>
>>AKAIK Pitfall II does not use the pokey chip. It uses volume samples.
>>The chip inside the cart just takes a value out of it's sample ROM at
>>a given rate and masks it into the same normal ROM address everytime.
>>That way the program can read the value from there and put it into the
>>TIA's volume register without wasting too much time of the scanline by
>>calculating which sample value to read next.
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>Doh! But I wonder if an internal Pokey Mod would still be possible for the
>2600.
>
>Or if there's a way to duplicate the effects of this custom activision
>chip internally.
>
>Writing to the TIA sound on each scanline would give you what?
>192 x 60Hz... 11.52KHz sample rate... not too bad for a 2600.
>
> CRACKERS
> (Hmmmm from hell!!!!)
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