Some chip suggestions

[The-Beesh-Spweesh]

PSG:

• Atari POKEY
• Watara Supervision APU
• T6W28 (mildly-enhanced SN76489)
• GBA APU
• VERA (Commander X16)

Wavetable:

• 2C33 (FDS)
• Konami SCC / SCC+
• VSU-VUE (Virtual Boy)
• SPGY-1001 (WonderSwan)

FM:

• YM2413
• OPL 1/2/3
• MSX-AUDIO

Sample:

• RF5C68
• S-DSP (SNES)

[freq-mod]

OPL3. There is no proper tracker with UI that isn't boomer MS-DOS cr*p, that is understandable/stable. And OpenMPT is waaay to limiting.

[mlfatr]

"Boomer, heh?" ;)

[freq-mod]

SCC (5ch wavetable, 8-bit) would be a neat addition too, in the future obviously

[The-Beesh-Spweesh]

SCC (5ch wavetable, 8-bit) would be a neat addition too, in the future obviously

There's already the PC Engine chip, which can imitate the SCC the best. (except it has a lower wave depth, but oh well)

[freq-mod]

Imitation is a one thing, but SSC isnt really PCE. SCC shares waveform between ch4 and ch5, and wave depth really makes a difference (IMO). I could say PCE imitates Wonderswan chip good enough 🤷‍♂️

[djmaximum17]

can we also have the Watara Supervision's sound chip?

[Ultraprogramer]

wow i loved the idea to have the opl1 chip on furnace ( since there is no opl1 tracker anyways )

[thearchivalone]

For the Wonderswan, there is the official Homebrew SDK called the Wonderwitch (can be found on Archive.org). I haven’t messed with it yet but I’d love to see support for the WS. Note: The WonderWitch is sort of like NetYaraoze was for the PS1 where it was developed to make making homebrew easier but may or may not work with real hardware in the traditional sense without some funky workarounds.

[tildearrow]

I have turned this issue into a list to make it easier for me to track.

[mrparn]

I'm an MSX enthusiast and I'd like to use Furnace to make music for real hardware. Of course, if you look at what kind of music hardware is supported by MSX you'd find a ton of options, so at first I'd suggest using only the most common ones: OPLL and AY-3-8910 are already available, and I think MSX-AUDIO (Y8950, which is basically OPL1 + 1 ADPCM channel) and SCC would be very nice additions.

[freq-mod]

Please add at some point YMZ280B support. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_YMZ280B
It is well emulated, supported by VGM, used in one arcade in conjunction with OPL3...

[asiekierka]

Regarding WonderSwan: It is important to note that the hardware does not actually operate at 60Hz (although Fire Lancer, a homebrew game, does change the display timings to run at around that frequency). Under default conditions, it operates at (12000 / 159), or ~75.47Hz.

[The-Beesh-Spweesh]

can we also have the Watara Supervision's sound chip?

I just added it as one of the tasks.

[tildearrow]

Removing from milestone as I have not considered Supervision for 0.6 (yet).

[BTTFdude]

Would it be possible to add support for the sound chip used in the Commodore Plus/4 (aka Commodore 16) in the future? The computer uses the TED for sound (2 square channels with one being able to switch to noise). This would fall under a PSG, and the link to programming info on the TED (Text Editing Device) is below:

http://plus4world.powweb.com/plus4encyclopedia/500024

[tildearrow]

TED is finally here

[The-Beesh-Spweesh]

Now that the Supervision PR has been merged, this long-standing issue may finally be put to rest.

[Ktupser]

can tilde arrow add the watara sound chip
if not can he add the magnvox odeeysey 2 sound chip

[The-Beesh-Spweesh]

The Supervision is present in the current dev build. Odyssey² is not available yet.

[Ktupser]

okay im downloading him now

[Ktupser]

and the atari jerry is also a good idea

[YaIiya]

Atari Jerry is like GBA, only has a left and a right channel. All sound is processed and streamed to the chip by the cpu. вс, 26 янв. 2025 г., 11:35 PM Ktupser ***@***.***>:

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[freq-mod]

No it doesn't. Provide source stating otherwise.

Tempest 2000 uses 4 channels, as it's music is in Amiga MOD format. Should we implement all Atari Jaguar softsynths?

[Ktupser]

freq mod youre talking about how many sound channels are used in a soundtrack not what the sound chip can do when pushing the limits of the chip
The AY-3-8910 can do duty cycles when pushing the limits of the sound chip
and the SID can do samples when pushing the limits of the sound chip

[YaIiya]

Excuse me for my rudeness BUT. those channels are software, not hardware. Any chip can do more channels than it has, with enough effort.

[Ktupser]

thats true

[YaIiya]

Which means that you have to add both the chip and make a custom software mixing engine.
Which automatically means Atari Jerry doesn't just have 16 channels, but as many as the engine allows and as long as you have free CPU tine to do all the mixing job.
You can pretty much just throw a bunch of Generic PCM DACs together and done