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chiptune: update timing info
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Interrupt Timing / AY write latency:
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Trying to find out why some songs, especially DEMO4 do not sound
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as good as they should compared to my pi-chiptune player and
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also emulation.
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On DEMO4 one issue shows up with the envelope is enabled
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on Channel A in the first 10s. In some cases the output just
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doesn't happen.
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I've analyzed the code in memory and as far as I can tell everything
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is being uncompressed and played properly.
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I thought maybe it was a timing issue (for example, on my Pi player
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it only takes roughly 100us to program all the registers, wheras
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on the Apple II it takes at least 3-6x longer).
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So it could just be an issue of programming the Envelope register
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values mid-output and so you get a few cycles where it's non-atomic?
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Really though any inconsistency should be < 1ms.
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For the numbers below, we assume 13 regs being written (as it's
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unusual in many YM songs to update R13 very often, and we skip
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it often (0xff) as writing the register (even with the same value)
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apparently resets the counter.
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Originally roughly 1500 cycles from start of interrupt
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to all AY registers being written.
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1600
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@ -485,3 +513,12 @@ Interrupt Timing / AY write latency:
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Was unnecessarily saving/restoring value to mem, save 2 cycles/loop
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1081 worst case = 13+2+(10+5+60+7)*13
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314 if only one reg changed = 13+2+(18*13)+65
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Tried unrolling. Just unrolling one channel increased the size
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of the executable by 454 bytes. By unrolling you can shave a few
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cycles off by hard-coding the current reg rather than using X.
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1235 to write both channels
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627 worst case one channel = 13 + (10+37)*13
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360 one reg both channels
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180 one reg = 13 + (10)*13+37
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