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  1. Posted

    How can I connect my Atari 800XL to my TV's DVD input (Y Pr Pb)?  

     

    When I connect the Video Out signal from my Atari to the Y input, the screen looks only in black and white. :ponder:

     

    Uh, if you only connect to the Y signal, you will only get black and white.

    Y = luma = brightness only.

    Pb / Pr are color components.

     

    Y Pb Pr is a different color space, but can be transformed from RGB, anyway...

     

    You should not connect the Video Out (composite Video (pin 4 on monitor port)) signal to Y, but rather the composite Luminace, pin 1, to Y. Even though the Video out will work, you will see the "color information" as noise on the screen.

     

    I think the best you can do, without a separate chip to convert S-video to Y Pb Pr or to RGB, is to connect the Luminance pin to Y. You will need a chip that can take composite chrominance and convert it into separate color channels....

  2. Posted

    You can deduce it according to the key on PC keyboard you pressed.

    Lower octave: Z... note C, X... note D, ....

    Higher octave: Q... note C, W... note D, ...

    Or you can easy scroll down below the end of song, there active one new empty temporary track (Control+N) and test notes there. After it you have to clear this track and remove it from song, of course.

     

    Thanks raster. This is awesome and very helpful.

     

    I remember my Atari beginnings in 1987-1993 ... all my musics was done in BASIC or later in MAC/65 assembler. Manually writing of tracks TRACK1 .BYTE 121,6,243,8,60,2  (notes, lengths) , song data .WORD TRACK1,TRACK20,TRACK11,TRACK , ... etc..

    You don't guess what making music by this way is toilsome.  ;)  

    So, it's logic, you can't judge RMT's colossal comfort enough. :D  

     

    Oh no, I understand. That is why I and very appreciative of RMT. We can make awesome music with little effort now... because you have put most of the effort into RMT. :)

     

    there will always be a feature request to raster...

    Good requests I was building-in to RMT always. ;)

     

    Keep them coming....

  3. Posted

    I guess it would be possible to add some internal hardware that would allow any accesses to Pokey, Antic, Gtia, PIA, etc show up on the CCTRL address space. Make it configuratable be a $d500 register somewhere and you are set. This is a whole different discussion, though.

     

    This would be most useful for adding extra Pokeys and Antics...if that is useful. :)

  4. Posted

    You could do that, but the point is to make something that doesn't require a hardware mod. I wouldn't stop you from adding a switch. I can see how it could be done with one additional mux chip.

     

    You could also make a PBI device that uses the whole address bus, that way you could decode the additional Pokeys at address $d200 and $d210. As long as you disable reads from the Pokeys on the PBI this should be okay...

     

    However, it is easy to make a modified RMT player that uses the CCTL address space. Other programs could be modified as well.

     

    I would also like to see a dual-sid cart for the Atari, and also a dual-sid/dual-pokey cart. Though, this last one will take up too much space in a cart.... it would be nice.

     

    Heck, you could even do a pseudo-dolby 5.1 channel surround sound cart, but it would take 6 Pokeys! :lolblue: :music:

  5. Posted

    I modified a copy of RMT to play with dual pokeys in the cartridge and it sounds fantastic with headphones. :)

     

    So, when will you have a PCB made? When will a cart be available for purchase and for how much do you think?

     

    This is the fastest I have seen a question go from post to proto-type! :thumbsup:

  10. Posted

    Oh, I don't know... If you built an old 8bit into a dvd player, settop box, or pvr/dvr, and make it so that it is one of the graphics layers (like Closed Caption or Teletext), you would have a nice selling point. Your Settop comes ready with personal, kid-safe computer. Make it so that you can download games and utilities over the internet and you are set!!!

     

    I work making chips for HDTV. Some of the next generation TVs have a fast enough CPU in them, that I thought about porting Atari800 to these CPUs/chipsets. That way I can hack an Atari computer straight into the TV. :)

     

    Well, I may be dreaming, but it is possible.

  13. Posted

    I think someone already build an Atari interface for the SID...was it Analmux?

     

    Anyway, this is pretty much what I thought... I don't think the players, including RMT, use the irq...so it should be easy. I have seen the source code for the RMT player (let me know if I am wrong), so it could easily be modded to look at $d500...

     

    If we put 2 pokeys into a cart and use A7 to select between the two... one at $d500 and the other at $d580, with a stereo jack...It should be easy to do for plug and play :)

  14. Posted

     

    I am still learning, too (in making music ;) ), and I still know what you mean. It's still a riddle for me, why Raster isn't adding "full" Pokey-support.

     

    As with any automation tool, there will be somethings you cannot do, or rather there will be somethings better done manually.

     

    RMT is a great tool and I can make music for the 8bit faster than ever...

     

    there will always be a feature request to raster...

  17. Posted

    Yeah, I thought about using a real pokey, but don't want rip apart another machine. It is a good idea, though.

     

    I suppose it could be wired similarly to the ethercart...

     

    I guess a PBI board could be used if the IRQ is needed...

     

    C

  19. Posted

    Yeah, I know... If I could find a good small business for these old computers, I could make a good living in what TI (my work) throws away around here. Every day you can find some old computer by the trash... crazy.

     

    I would still like to see an 8bit in a PDA formfactor... Even it is just a kid's PDA. Every one of my little cousins or other kids I show the old games to, they can sit and play for hours... You do not need a PS2 or whatever!!!

  20. Posted

    Things like word processing, accounting sheets, cash registers, etc.. should only need to be 8 bit as far as I can tell.

     

    Yeah, you are right... We were on a hugh marketing rollercoaster when they made us believe that we needed to have a faster processor to be better. So, every 3 months you need to buy another computer... thanks intel!

     

    The 8bit can be the brains/CPU behind many applications that do not require processing a vast amount to data in a short time or a bunch of graphics... our 8bit machines could control Scrolling Text signs or be a simple text only TV broadcast... we has a station here that used an Atari 8bit computer to do this. It could be used in restaurants for point-of-sale machines, for

     

    For home use: games!!!

     

    Hey, how about turning the 8bit into a controller for an alarm system or even to control a string of blinking LED lights (for Christmas)... :D

  21. Posted

    Here another try, with a complete notation offset.

     

     

    I like this version very much!

     

    Is there a way to know which note RMT plays when you press a key in "PROVE" mode?

     

    This way I can play a note in RMT and play the same instrument in madtracker to see how much the intstrument needs to be transposed.

     

     

    Thanks I downloaded it!!!

     

     

    The way you did "ecstasy.mod", is quite nice. But I really have problems to recognize it as a "conversion" from an "original" Mod.  

    ... hoping you understand what I am trying to explain.

     

    Yeah, I think so. I wasn't trying to be faithful to the orginal, but give it an 8-bit feel. :) Besides, I am still learning, but there are some things I would like to do but RMT just will not allow it.

  25. Posted

    I think the problem is that each instrument needs to be adjusted for pitch or frequency up or down manually, because there is no way for RMT to know what pitch the original sample was in.

     

    Here is a first attempt to adjust to the correct frequency for each instrument.

     

    Does any know of a good mod player/tracker for windows XP? Mod4win does not seem to work on XP. :(

    12th_new.zip

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