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Alright, with that I was able to load the program (no autotyping S1000 but whatever). Now what? I can move around in the menu. INIT and EXIT do something. I gather Q should exit from the menu, but nothing happens when I press that. No other keypress seems to do anything. Overall the program is extremely sluggish, barely reacting to keypresses. Is it the prog itself, or the emul? Before starting klavesin, it's pretty responsive though.
Will have to sit down again with this in a couple of days, when I have more time.

I don't have a working Windows anymore so need to find another way. Managed to get the machine to work in MAME. However, that will only accept tape images. Any idea what would be needed to convert klavesin to the appropriate tape format? And how to load it? Otherwise I can inject the bin into memory via the Lua console, but that'd be a bit tedious and I'd need to know the load address.

Does register 177716 do anything else besides driving beeper/tape? Otherwise it might be quite easy to fake some pcm on the machine.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say. If you want you can write in Dutch, then I'll translate.

Hoi Crisis, welkom Weren't you also experimenting with beeper sound on 16K/contended memory a while ago?

I think the approach is interesting. It could indeed produce very compact data. In theory Bintracker could support such a format (though at this point it's still missing various required bits here and there). The interface would not reflect the data structure at all though. It'd still be just a normal tracker interface and then conversion to the actual format would be done by the compiler/optimizer. I even have reasonably accurate scale/mood recognition working, though it's just a very simple proof-of-concept at this point.

One problem I see though is that this format optimizes for a certain style of writing the music. Someone who doesn't care about time signature and/or mood might not benefit from size savings as much. Then again, the chance that someone is going to write dubsteb with that thing isn't that high I guess.

Wow, these sound really good.

What's your idea regarding a new song data format? Sure, 16K is pretty big I think generally it's not necessary for beeper data to be super optimized, though. Usually things compresses quite well with common compressors (zx7, apack, etc).

From what I remember of my experiments back in the day, there is no noticable benefit to distributing the 1s like this, except for many consecutive 1s - eg. 11101110 is sometimes a bit cleaner than 11111100. I'd say it's not worth spending extra CPU cylces on, though.

Part 10 is actually a bit outdated, in part 12 you will find a better synthesis method that can also be adapted to PCM playback. In a sense, the same caveat about consecutive 1s applies to that, though, e.g. having two 3-bit outputs will be cleaner than having one 4-bit output, but having one 4-bit output saves 24 cycles...

In any case there are some interesting effects that can be observed in this regard. This is because the expansion of a speaker diaphragm isn't linear, so at volumes >50% it will react differently than <50%. So far nobody has been able to really make use of that, though.

@Shiru: Oh wow, that whole bit about Mr. Murray totally escaped my attention. Yeah, deffo uncool, but on the other hand it clearly says more about them than you guys.

Btw what's your approach for going below 245 Hz limit? Right now I'm toggling CB2 in direct mode via a Timer 1 interrupt, but I'm thinking there's got to be a better way. Also, the Raeto C West book mentions using the Timer 2 high-byte in conjunction with the Shift Register, but this doesn't appear to work. Am I missing something here?

@Tufty: Mr. Murray = The 8-bit Guy

Aha! Then there's a good chance TI-Connect is actually corrupting the ht2.8xp file. Could you try installing it with TiLP instead?

Well. TI is 6 MHz, vs Spectrum's 3.5 MHz. So it's not possible to port this engine as such. On the other hand, the rra/out/rra/out... trick I'm using in many newer ZX engines is not possible on TI (because bits must be set in a specific way when writing to the "beeper" port - so before each OUT there must be an AND+OR). So Spectrum can do some funky tricks that TI can't.

Also welcome aboard @tuesockor, great to have you around and thanks again for the awesome video!

I think good candidates would be Phaser3, Squat, Pytha, SqueekerPlus, PhaserX, and probably SquatE (have not tried it, but sounds very promising). zbmod engine if you're *really* bored

mp3 seems incorrect, the notes of the lead melody should be continuous.

Ha, looks like you've got quite the collection of beeper engines on the VZ now.
I do listen to beeper in the car but I really wish it was as warm and sunny over here like in the first vid, haha.