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In article <ARM200-921219213022-6DAA049D*@MHS>, /G=Owen/S=Smith/O=SJ-Research/ADMD=INTERSPAN/C=GB/@mhs-relay.ac.uk writes:
> Today I upgraded a friend's A310 (4MB RAM, ARM3, Watford ST506, Acorn SCSI 
> + CDFS, IOTA Scanner, Watford ArchiTablet) to RISC OS 3.10. Most things 
> work fine, but one thing that doesn't is the Armadillo 16 bit sound 
> sampler. According to Malcom, Armadillo went out of business some time ago 
> so he can't ring them up to ask them about it. The symptoms are that when 
> starting !Highnote, you either get a total machine hang, a "Branch through 
> zero at location &3812CA4", or an "Internal error". (You have to start it 
> in mode 12 to even get this far.) Does anyone know what the problem is, 
> how to fix it, or know of anyone who might know? Has any other company 
> picked up the rights to the Armadillo kit?

   If I have got things right the problem is more than likely the removal of
read track from the ADFS_DiscOp functions. Highnote wants to read some hidden
track data (around track 80-81 odd) that gives it it's crucial branch table
to the rest of it's code.

   Personally I would go in favour of getting new sound sampling software.
Highnote is old Arthur software and has a few 'quirks' that make it very
irritating to use.

   At any rate if your friend has email access could you get him to email me
please? The only person I know of who has this kind of sampler is not email
connected and I'd like to get a few details about that sampler to support it
in some sampling code I am working on. (For those who want to know yes I am
going to support the Elektor sampler too. Just as soon as I get the code
sorted out for it I'll email you again about it.)

   Philip