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Wed, 04/15/2009 - 9:05am
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Bill Loguidice
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Dedicated circuits
Calibrator wrote:
Jeri Ellsworth wrote:

There were cool circuits name "Scream" and "Crash". :)

Were they for sound generation?
I only heard two sound effects in the videos and their names would fit... :-)

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Calibrator

Yeah, I think so. I think every graphic and sound effect was stored like that. Pretty straightforward approach and I'm surprised that even when microprocessors became ubiquitous, there wasn't the occasional use of dedicated circuits for certain things like that (though of course that's assuming they could be mixed). Though of course as far as I know, they did...

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