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From: warren@ssc-vax.UUCP (Warren Kring)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Garbled Voice, Creating Icons For Programs
Message-ID: <406@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 10:29:05 EST
Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.406
Posted: Tue Dec 10 10:29:05 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Dec-85 04:34:35 EST
References: <632@caip.RUTGERS.EDU>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA
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George Musser Jr. writes...
> 
> My note responded to S.S. Barer's observation that narrate/translate produce
> garbled voice when ABasiC is in 80 columns mode.
> 
> I've found the distortion -- which sounds vaguely like a record played
> too slowly -- doesn't always occur when ABasiC is in 640x200 mode.
> Generally (though not always), it happens when I've got a background task
> running, I'm low on memory, or when I've just run Mandelbrot or the audio
> demo.  Perhaps the 68000 and/or sound chip are bogged down with
> "something else".
> 
> The apparent fact that one task can grab onto a piece of hardware and not
> let another task use it effectively (e.g. audio demo not letting narrate/
> translate work) seems to contradict the whole idea of "virtual terminals".
> Each task is supposed to think it has its very own 68000.  The audio demo
> (i.e. the power chord toy) shouldn't harm ABasiC when it's not active.
> 
>                                            George Musser Jr.

I had noticed this problem with the garbled voice when in the 80
column mode, but was able to make it half acceptable by changing the
parameter that controls the "quality".  By lowering this value, the
sound was less like from the bottom of a fish tank.  However, after
putting it in the 40 column mode, it sounded great!  Why???  does
the 80 column mode take up more of the bus or what?  I've also
noticed that in the 80 column mode the backspace, arrow, etc. keys
are slow, and if you hold them down long enough, they'll just go
over everything until their buffer is empty. Is this only a problem
with AbasiC, or will everything in an 80 column mode have the same
problem?

Warren Kring
Boeing Aerospace Co.
Seattle, Wa

"When you least expect it... expect it."




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