[Coco] Speech/Sound Cartridge Emulation just added to MAME

[David Ladd]

Tim,

That is great news for sure :)  Great job on making this happen and for all
the hard work you had to go through to get it done.  This will for sure
live on as another hurdle tackled in the CoCo hardware packs to emulate.

All I can say is from me.  Thank you TIM!

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On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 9:31 AM, tim lindner <tlindner at macmess.org> wrote:

> The MAME that will be released on June 28th (0.187), will include a
> new slot device that allows everyone to emulate the S/SC with the CoCo
> drivers.
>
> If you compile MAME on your own, you can test it out now by
> downloading the official source:
>
> https://github.com/mamedev/mame
>
> This is something I've been working on for a long time. But I'd first
> like to thank a few people who helped:
>
> 0. Nathan Woods - for his tireless work on the CoCo drivers in MAME.
> 1. Frank Palazzolo - for dumping the ROM in the PIC-7040 (neé TMS-7040).
> 2. hap - for writing the TMS-7000 microcontroller core.
> 3. Joe Zibiciak - for all his work on the SP0256 speech chip reverse
> engineering and emulation.
> 4. Couriersud, RBelmont - for the AY8910 Programable Sound Generator
> emulation, a long time core in MAME
>
> The new ROMSET can be downloaded here:
>
> http://www.macmess.org/downloads/coco_ssc.zip
>
> It contains the masked ROM from the microcontroller and Speech chip.
>
> To activate the slot device, put the ROMSET in your ROMs folder, and
> "insert" the S/SC into the expansion port like this:
>
> ./mame64 coco2b -ext ssc
>
> Using it with a floppy disk controller will require a Multi-Pak (just
> like real hardware):
>
> ./mame64 coco2b -ext multi -ext:multi:slot3 ssc -flop1 SSC.dsk
>
> The floppy controller is automatically in slot 4 so you don't have to
> specify it.
>
> Here is a link to a disk image of sample programs:
>
> http://www.macmess.org/downloads/SSC.dsk
>
> Here is a list of programs that use the S/SC:
>
> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Speech/Sound_Cartridge_(26-3144A)
>
> And here is the link to my page about this device that includes
> everything I know about it:
>
> http://tlindner.macmess.org/?page_id=96
>
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