Date   : Mon, 25 Jul 1994 18:23:26 WET DST
From   : Bonfield James <jkb@...>
Subject: Re: Getting my beloved ">"

Chris writes:

>A quick note on the beeps (no, I didn't think it was funny either!) - I 
>think I'm going to use the 'ole Adlib card to emulate the BBC sound 
>chips. I haven't actually done any Adlib programming but I have looked at 
>the documentation a bit and seeing as it is the same sort of thing as the 
>BBC sound chip (although more advanced) I don't see why we can't convert 
>BBC envelope commands into Adlib ones by simplifying them a bit and 
>rounding everything to the right ranges. Any ideas?

No no no! The OS does the envelopes. As such the OS should still do the
envelopes. You should be converting sound chip memory accesses to adlib
commands. Does the adlib support a 'play this until I say otherwise' mode?
This would make things far easier.

       James