wdao@sal45.usc.edu (Walter Dao) (01/24/89)
I just want to share an experience I had recently (well yesterday) programming my amiga. I wanted to produce some sound on my amiga . I had a file of sampled sound. (it was Obiwan Kenobi talking to luke if you want to know.) and wanted to hear it . So with the Hardware Reference guide under my arms, went pounding the Assembly code, assembled the source, linked it with the sample and ran it. no sound from my $50 stereo amplifier that is adorning my mean machine. Back to debugging, rereading each lines of the hard. ref. guid. , checking and rechecking all the memory addresses directly accessed, the data file. All seems ok. re Assemble, relink, re run, no beep, not even any static. Pounding my skull against the screen, inner savage urges were emerging. Let's bast something to mezons !!! . so reaching for some disks, I grabbed katakis, that's a good blast everything on sight. It booted , then no sound ! puzzled look ... fried chip ? ... a few hardware checks ... then enlightenment .... the volume of the stereo was set to minimum !!! stupid me . (I just received the disks from visionsound - the 4 music disk - and I played around with them ...) back to the sampled sound , execution of the prg. --- perfect run --- joy appeared on my lips ... I could kick myself for days. 2,3 hours of my life have been miserably wasted. dw.