Armadillo 16 bit sound sampler

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#490

Author: /G=Owen/S=Smith/O=SJ-Research/AD...
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 21:30

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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?

The Watford ArchiTablet doesn't work either (it claims the tablet isn't
plugged in to the serial port) but Malcolm is going to contact Watford 
about that.

Owen.

Re: Armadillo 16 bit sound sampler

#495

Author: banks_p
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:27

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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

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