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<andlabs>
oh
<andlabs>
I misread
<andlabs>
sorry =P
<andlabs>
though I need to write bookkeeping stuff too
<andlabs>
like "sitll need to dump the individual eeproms"
<andlabs>
eh
<andlabs>
I'll probably just get some post-it ntoes
<Lord_Nightmare>
i got an fb-01 a few days ago, for a price i couldn't turn down. i still need to set it up though...
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<andlabs>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbUFfAk9SYo see when people do things absurd like this they're good, just limit yousrelf to simple silly stuff and maybe I'll not feel so jaded I guess =P
<andlabs>
oh of course it's a collaborative joke
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<Foone>
Lord_Nightmare: DRM crap? how do you put DRM in a sound chip?
<Foone>
unless you pay for a license, you cannot play THE FORBIDDEN NOTES
<andlabs>
there are extra undocumented registers
<andlabs>
those registers are not used by the SFG-05 / FB-01 but if you don't set them the system won't work right
<andlabs>
set them to 0
<andlabs>
and the test register used for LFO reset is in a different place
<andlabs>
the DX-100 does actually use those extra registers though
<andlabs>
setting them to values between 0 and $F based on something
<andlabs>
I **think** it's the mod wheel
<andlabs>
but I don't know what the specific ofngiruation is; my attempt at writing a dx100 simulator isn't that elaborate yet
<andlabs>
I could probably try writing a basic MAME driver instead
<andlabs>
the lack of understanding of these registers causes people to just assume it's some sort of DRM though
<andlabs>
it IS nefarious "seerkit hacking toolz" type holding-back of users of FM but whatever
<andlabs>
yamaha were dumb
<andlabs>
lol you get OPN because we want to keep OPM to ourselves
<andlabs>
yes I know you're trying to make a home console that's arcade quality but *raspberry*
<andlabs>
or at least htat's allegedly what happened
<andlabs>
I don't believe it for one reason: the X68000
<andlabs>
the excuse is that Sharp were the chip fab but
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<andlabs>
is there such a thing as a multimeter probe with a tip that's a tube that I can put over a pin instead of holding a pointed tip on the pin clumsily