Jornada 720/728 sound card type?

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On 4 Jan 2005 20:22:27 -0800,
johnw_94020@yahoo.com (johnw_94020@yahoo.com) wrote:
> What is it? I'm running NES CE and it has problems playing a games
> music and sound. The audio is very clunky. Perhaps the commercial
> emulator will fix this or perhaps it will not. I wont know until I get
> back to a high speed connection. Perhaps the problem lies with the
> Jornada 720 sound chip?

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No. The problem is that the empty space between your ears has rotten
acoustic qualities. I surprised you haven't realized this earlier.

Beverly
--
Many a smale maketh a grate -- Geoffrey Chaucer

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Thanks Nick.

So this means that even if I spend $20 on that commercial NES emulator
for the HPC I will have the same problems? The gamespeed seems decent,
but the sound no. About PocketPC's Nick how would one play games
without a keyboard? I hear some PPC emulators have a onscreen NES
control pad, but I can imagine it would be difficult to tap everything,
especially playing a game like punch out. On the HPC with the keyboard
it makes it much easier to play.

So this might also explain why some games on my Mac have choppy audio,
but play like the arcade on my PC. And bye the way my PC is only a
PII, and my Mac a G3 (unless of coarse the emulator bypasses my
processor upgrade card and speaks directly to the internal CPU). Then
that would explain the choppy audio. My Mac G3 chip is not internal
but on a L2 card, enabled by an extension. Perhaps some software can
bypass it, and speak directly to the old 603e chip explaining the
choppy audio.


Thanks,


John


Nick L wrote:
> johnw_94020@yahoo.com wrote:
> > What is it? I'm running NES CE and it has problems playing a games
> > music and sound. The audio is very clunky. Perhaps the commercial
> > emulator will fix this or perhaps it will not. I wont know until I
get
> > back to a high speed connection. Perhaps the problem lies with
the
> > Jornada 720 sound chip?
>
> John,
>
> The problem will be on the relative lack of computing power. The
> NES has a sound chip in its hardware as a dedicated sound processor,
> and the emulator has to attempt to fully emulate this. This means
that
> all features of the NES sound chip (wavetable synthesis and goodness
> only knows what) must be performed by the CE Emulator and "rendered"
> to a raw audio data structure that can be fed to the chip.
>
> All the hard work that the NES chip would perform has to be emulated
> by software. This is a seriously non-trivial task which takes a fair
> whack of computing power, and hence the sound will be choppy unless
> you have a fairly fast processor. The new pocketPCs will not
struggle,
> but older stuff with relatively slow processors will.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nick.