30 September 2012, 11:28 | #1 |
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4 individual outs for Paula
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Can anyone enlighten me. Was there ever an amiga fitted with paula that could output each sound to its own channel. Instead of two left and two right? SO have 4 outs and 1 sound each. I have owned a 500/600/1200 and none of these could. But then I wonder did any of the tower version have this option? Or did they not use Paula? |
30 September 2012, 11:34 | #2 | |
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I seen a hack on aminet long time ago which works on any amiga model...but I can't post the link I can't remember now also you can get 4:1 sound on winuae if your soundcard support it |
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30 September 2012, 12:21 | #3 |
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You won't get 4 physical channels from Paula. All Paula chips are internally the same.
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I got really excited about the for a second!! Dam it!!
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01 October 2012, 00:30 | #6 |
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this looks interesting
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01 October 2012, 00:46 | #7 |
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Yeah, it's a shame Commodore didn't think of this. Having 4 outputs would be dreamy.
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i found Lasermax software which has some modification details of an A500. maybe this is of interest : http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=842590&postcount=35
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Thanks for that m,an, I for got I had asked this question some time ago! http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=53213
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no problem, i saw your posting, so the doublepost. if this is the correct modification, then its time for some more hackery
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I don't think so, the diagram does not in any way mention the Paula chip, then again, I am not very good at reading electronic diagrams. Perhaps someone with a better idea can give this a look and tell us how it works. From the words of experts I would assume this isn't possible at all with Paula.
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01 October 2012, 14:01 | #12 |
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the manual mentions the pangolin lsd modification, which can be used with LaserMax. so both modifications must have something in common.
well, maybe rkauer can solve the puzzle. Edit: Amiga 1200 Modification Project - added link at the older posting. Last edited by emufan; 01 October 2012 at 14:50. |
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As you can see, it's only taking the positive pin off each capacitor. It's not splitting the audio into 4 channels, otherwise there'd be 5 cables instead of 3. I suppose what that Pangolin QM8 card does is allow you to control more than one laser or have more parameters, by using 4 signals instead of two.
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01 October 2012, 16:39 | #14 |
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yes, i saw this too. i had some hope for the box itself, but it also only got 3 connectors - it was the budget solution.
the qm8 paula-socket adapter on the other side must be relative simple, other wise i cannot explain, they didn't release any picture of this device on their website. Edit: "The QuadMod32 is a four-layer computer using a 40 MHz Motorola 68030 microprocessor, and 4 or 16 MB of memory." - maybe the amiga version wasn't that simple then - QM32 is the windows version Edit: Jumper of the QM32 the messageboard might be worth a closer look. maybe still someone there, who was using such amiga qm8 solution. Edit: Pangolin's QM32 website shows the whole card. Last edited by emufan; 04 October 2012 at 01:02. |
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correct, the basic version just dc-couples the regular left/right outputs and adds some offset/level adjustments..
what the qm8 does is more of a mystery, though.. it seems it would make more sense to use a dedicated dac extension board instead of replicating paula with a 4 channel output modification.. maybe the qm32 has an 68030 in order to run their amiga software directly on the board |
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i made a posting at pangolin message board. perhapbs we can get some information that way
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Call me a charlatan, but I've always felt the Amiga sounded at its best in mono
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Amiga miss independent channel positioning for Left and Right - this probably double size PWM circuitry and at developing was simply abandoned. however there is plenty of not used bits in AUDxVOL registers so this kind of extension can be added now... Second modification easy to implement should be channel modulation by channel - this can be used or to double sampling frequency or double resolution - still without redesigning DMA architecture. |
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06 October 2012, 15:34 | #20 |
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According to the Paula pinout so does it only have two sound outputs, so you cant split them into four.
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