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Yeah that's true, i can't argue against I'm just pointing to that it would been possible, just if they wanted to make it that way, samples n all... but the programmers were lousy as said, soo many bugs in some games... the programmers yave evolved since

Oh my god, im so in love with Random Voice IV right now, its so good T_T

was a great gaming time!

16bit is fascinating

Samples should have played back in IRQ's ofcourse, like those demos do. Game creators weren't that good with samples.. you know

but hey, that's why the 16 bit era was so fascinating - faster machines, parallax scrolling, samples in realtime, no sprite flickering, many more sprites at once, more colors, better synthesizers/music chips, more samples in realtime, bigger sprites, more

see Turrican game. Ingame NO MUSIC AT ALL. but we have a very nice game!

yeah in a game there are too many variables that have to be checked in realtime...... no CPU left for samples in realtime etc

but also: the use of memory. Well, most games didn't engage all of it. Hm: Space Taxi comes to mind, but that game even halts for the times when it is to playback samples. Just a lousy programming, most of those.

didn't know about it back then, of course not.

Yeah, gotcha, i think i don't know any (PWM or osc based) samples in any game. Probably someone else knows.. well i know the reason: game makers wanted the most CPU for their games, too often their code was not just optimized at all for that or they...

or show me a game that does that

c64 not capable of that - parallax scrolling, all sprites at once, 2 joysticks, and sampling on SID in realtime

i slept 8 hours, yeppo!

..which is not a problem even, as VIC can switch the graphics memory bank in just one (or two) CPU writes per frame

and i mean NOT the title or credits screen but ingame

ok then show me a game with lotsa samples on c64

Hehe. Anyway.. in fact that's not the case, VIC chip does the collision testing and joysticks needs only one read for each stick. The CPU is more engaged to what is actually happening at screen, and which ratio: 50 Hz, 25 Hz, 16,7 Hz screen updates...

My first samplers were indeed trackers. I never had a AKAI S1000 sampler or so. But since I use trackers I'M spoiled sample-wize.

2. i am VST-Sample Lib-spoiled, so sampled stuff on C64 doesn't impress me, as it would in 80s/90s

age, I mean in a gaming environment, with 2 joysticks and enemy collision and much more it's mostly impossible to utilize samples in realtime

The sampled stuff (plus SID channels) starts at 4:00 onwards... hehe... 100% CPU, no?

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Now if you want to avoid that 12kHz sampling tone, you can apply the bandpass or lowpass filter to cover all those channels. The outcome is the approx of those pulses, as should.

and now... the SID registers can be updated while those 3;samples are playing. PWM, pulse width modulation. And pulse width is 12 bits of accuracy in SID equipped in stock c64 aand... that means, SID can buffer 3 samples. Requires 3 times less CPU irq's

make it _-_-_-_ using 3 channels, synchronized to timing like this, the max output of 4kHz is now 12 kHz!

amiga 500 also has synthesizer. AM synth iirc.