tempsoundsolutions
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TSSBAY01

so yeah, i donno if you dudes have heard of this thing, much less got any clue of what it is, but the watara supervision seems like a system that maybe some smart programming head could make a tracker for. getting boards made up to fit the watara supervision, especially boards with a battery on them might be tough. i dont even know what that would entail, but it seriously seems like this thing sounds thicker then a gameboy to me.

the sound channels are two tones and noise, and dma stereo. there were eleven different types of these things too. it sounds pretty beastly. so has anybody ever tried to make sound software for it? seems like if someone could write some tunes with it it would be super killer. sounds real nasty, have a listen.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watara_Supervision
http://iamhandheld.blogspot.com/2009/07 … video.html
http://www.consoledatabase.com/faq/supe … ionfaq.txt

wedanced
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San Francisco

This thing was notorious for being a huge piece of shit that no one wanted. that being said from what i gather this has 2 square waves and one noise channel. my guess is there is nothing special there and it is deff. lower quality then a gb synthesis wise. Then again it's hard to tell with just a microphone recordings.

Kedromelon
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brooklyn
wedanced wrote:

2 square waves and one noise channel

Apparently it also has this "DMA stereo output channel"

Does anyone know what that is or what it would entail? Better stereo sound than the Game Boy??

tempsoundsolutions
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TSSBAY01

from what i can hear just in youtube vids, it does sound like that dma channel might be better stereo sound. like i said, they made 11 different types of watara supervision systems, so if some of them are junky, im sure that theres other ones that would be better quality at least, its just a matter of finding which ones. i do think maybe theres some potential here with this thing, because it sounds different. theres no telling what it would sound like if someone developed some sort of software for it, but we would have to figure out how difficult it would be to make new boards for it and that sort of thing. it might be worthwhile, it might not. i figured i'd ask around here to see if anybody ever did anything with it. somebody needs to!

Theta_Frost
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Milwaukee, WI

I like it.  The way it sounds I think is great as well!  DMA could be referring to the same way samples are managed on the Atari ST, so maybe this has some kind of sampling?  I don't think a EPROM cart would be too hard, but I doubt there is anything music related available about this.  Regardless, I'll keep my eyes open for one cheap.  smile