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Pro - yes of course - I didn't notice it.

Anyway. I gave up. Will stick to 4ch after all. Making techno-rave without volumes is impossible for me now, haha. Truly I got soft within years, as 20 years ago we were making some 6ch and 8ch techno modules on OctaMED after all. Without using volume commands.

4ch it is.

Thx, all.

OK, not for ALL Amiga 500 computers but for some of them (worked on mine!!!!! ).

How to "increase Yourself" Your ChipRam to have 1Mb for samples.

Jens Wrote:
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A simple way to extend your chipram to 1MByte is to use an ECS Agnus and activate the "Chipmap" feature of the ACA500. The stock firmware of the ACA500 does not activate Chipmap yet. However, the latest version does:
http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/File:Menu500_V081.zip

Unpack that archive to a FAT-formatted CF card, insert the card into the AUX slot and remove any card from the Boot slot. Start the computer, press F10 for expert menu, then F for flash update. Follow the instructions on screen. After the update, it will activate ChipMap if you have an ECS Agnus, so you can use 1MByte Chipram.
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So I asked my friend JAD how to check the Agnus out and he informed me there is a prog "WhichAmiga":
http://aminet.net/package/util/moni/WhichAmiga

I tested my machine and I saw this:
"Custom Animation Chip: ECS PAL Fatter Agnus 8372A, 1Mb".

So - it should work.

I re-flashed the ACA500, like Jens suggested.

And........... IT WORKED! Now I have 1Mb of ChipRam and 1,5Mb of FastRam.
Also, additionally, I intend to buy the ACA1220 card, to get 128Mb of Fast and 020 CPU, heheh.

Desumate:

I meant floppy disk because then the RAM isn't so much occupied. You know, by system, by 3.1 ROM, and so on.

> What is the recommended bit rate?
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I dunno. Normally 22050 should be OK. Or even 16000 (when I wanna make smaller samples...)?

Guyz will tell ya for sure.

TSC, Akira:

Aaaah, thanks guyz. So - that's more less what I thought and what I was afraid of.
So I must have 2Mb of ChipRam, if possible to do such a mod (I mean the A500).

Akira:

> In any case, 2MB is a shit ton of RAM to fill up with mono 8-bit samples!!!! Specially since these samples are stored at variable rates, so you can have really small ones.
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Well, not in any case, as it seems: the idea was to make several techno-rave traxx in 8channels mode. There I have only 4 volumes for 8 channels, which exactly means no volumes at all.
Hence, I wanted to make twice more samples (in variations/versions: full volume + half of the volume, for delays and so on).
So it seems like I can't do it at the moment on A500, and there's no point to do it on A1200, as it has DigiBooster, a very powerful util (the most, of the Amiga soft?).

OK then, so I leave the project for "better times".

Thanks again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111elevenone

Hmmmmmmmmm.
Sadly, if You have just an Amiga500 1Mb (standard), the board will be no use for entertainment: most demos nor games don't work.
Only utilities (like mine the main tool - the OctaMED). I've just discovered it.

Wow dude, thx a lot, I will check diz out too. Hopefully would work with 4.0.
Good finding.

Wow, dude. Nice.

PS: Is that a Yamaha 500? I was heavily using it in 1994. Good stuff. Good on-board sequencer btw.

PS.2: Cool dog.