[Coco] SS/C drivers for NitrOS9

[L. Curtis Boyle]

I don’t remember for sure, but I think you are correct, in that the Sierra driver wrote to the hardware directly. I think I had to patch it to get it to run on the TC-9 (same as Kyum-Gai).

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



> On Feb 6, 2015, at 1:36 PM, tim lindner <tlindner at macmess.org> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Nick Marentes <nickma2 at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>> On 7/02/2015 1:17 AM, tim lindner wrote:
>>> 
>>> Yes. /level1/modules/sspak.asm Under level 2, you'll need to modify your
>>> SSC to work at 2 MHz.
>> 
>> 
>> So someone familiar with OS-9 can replace the sound driver used in the
>> Sierra games to use the SSC drivers?
> 
> No. The driver I mentioned only accepts text. The driver will route
> the text to the Speech processor inside the S/SC.
> 
> Allen mentioned OS-9 has a ss.tone subroutine for generating sounds,
> but I don't know if the Sierra games are using it. The Sierra games
> might be writing to the DACs directly.
> 
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