Monkey See, Monkey Do

[Gernreich]

I've been looking around for an hour+ but I can't seem to find what I need.  Also I am a Monkey See, Monkey Do kind of person.  Could someone translate this one line into assembly? Please?

VPOKE $0001,$F9C1,$04

If I can get that in assembly I will have a great jumping off point for a program I want to write in assembly

Thanks!

[StephenHorn]

A straight translation into 6502 assembly would be:

lda #$00
sta $9F25 ; Set ADDSEL to 0
lda #$C1
sta $9F20 ; Set ADDR0_L to $C1
lda #$F9
sta $9F21 ; Set ADDR0_M to $F9
lda #$01
sta $9F22 ; Set ADDR0_H to $01
lda #$04
sta $9F23 ; Write $04 to VRAM addr $1F9C1

[StephenHorn]

$1F9C1 is Frequency word (15:8) in the VERA's PSG. Assuming $1F9C0 is $00, this is setting the PSG's frequency to 381.47Hz, somewhere between F#4 and G4. I would assume the intention is to produce G4, so you would want to set $1F9C0 to $1C.

[StinkerB06]

4 hours ago, StephenHorn said:

A straight translation into 6502 assembly would be:

lda #$00
sta $9F25 ; Set ADDSEL to 0
lda #$C1
sta $9F20 ; Set ADDR0_L to $C1
lda #$F9
sta $9F21 ; Set ADDR0_M to $F9
lda #$01
sta $9F22 ; Set ADDR0_H to $01
lda #$04
sta $9F23 ; Write $04 to VRAM addr $1F9C1

Also, don't forget the "LDA #0 / STA addr" combo can be replaced with "STZ addr" on the 65C02.

[Gernreich]

Thank you all very much!  Steven thank you for the translation! The frequency is off because it is set to match a note on a great highland bagpipe practice chanter. I want to convert my basic program that plays a pipe tune, adjustable so as to be practiced with, over to assembly.  When I have done so I hope to share it .  StinkerB06 thank you as well for the shorted version of loading zero into the address  

 

The four lines I am jumping off with are:

VPOKE $0001,$F9C2,$FF
VPOKE $0001,$F9C3,$3F
VPOKE $0001,$F9C0,$4A
VPOKE $0001,$F9C1,$04

Given the translation of one of the lines I believe I can translate the rest

 

 

Edited October 10, 2020 by Gernreich

[Gernreich]

<light bulb>!!!

 

BASIC

10 POKE$9F20,0
20 POKE$9F21,0
30 POKE$9F22,0
40 POKE$9F23,1

This is identical to doing VPOKE0,0,1.

6502

stz $9F20
stz $9F21
stz $9F22
lda #1
sta $9F23

[StephenHorn]

Mostly correct. The one caveat is to make sure you stz $9F25 to make sure you are setting the VRAM address of ADDR0_x, instead of ADDR1_x.

ADDR0_x is accessed through $9F23.
ADDR1_x is accessed through $9F24.

[Gernreich]

OK here is what I have for playing one note

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
###https://github.com/commanderx16/x16-emulator/wiki/(VERA-0.9)-Register-$9F25###
###https://www.commanderx16.com/forum/index.php?/topic/438-need-help-with-basicasm-access-to-vera-sound/###

###VERA I/O control register###
###When ADDRSEL is set to 0, any reads or writes to $9F20-$9F22 will refer to the VRAM address used by $9F23 (DATA0).###
lda #$00
sta $9F25

###Contains the middlin-significant byte of VRAM we want to access###
lda #$F9
sta $9F21

###Contains the most-significant bit of VRAM we want to access and sets the memory access increment for VERA data ports###
lda #$01
sta $9F22

#############################################################
###low frequency byte###
###Contains the least-significant byte of VRAM we want to access###
lda #$C0
sta $9F20

###Data port 0###
lda #$4A
sta $9F23
#############################################################

#############################################################
###high frequency byte###
###Contains the least-significant byte of VRAM we want to access###
lda #$C1
sta $9F20

###Data port 0###
lda #$04
sta $9F23
#############################################################

#############################################################
###L-R_volume###
###Contains the least-significant byte of VRAM we want to access###
lda #$C2
sta $9F20

###Data port 0###
lda #$FF
sta $9F23
#############################################################

#############################################################
###waveform and pulse width###
###Contains the least-significant byte of VRAM we want to access###
lda #$C3
sta $9F20

###Data port 0###
lda #$3F
sta $9F23
#############################################################
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Edited October 15, 2020 by Gernreich

[Gernreich]

WOOT!!!!!

LDA #$00
STA $9F25
LDA #$01
STA $9F22
LDA #$F9
STA $9F21
LDA #$C2
STA $9F20
LDA #$FF
STA $9F23
LDA #$C3
STA $9F20
LDA #$3F
STA $9F23
LDA #$C0
STA $9F20
LDA #$4A
STA $9F23
LDA #$C1
STA $9F20
LDA #$04
STA $9F23

WORKED!!!!!

[StinkerB06]

1 hour ago, Gernreich said:

WOOT!!!!!

LDA #$00
STA $9F25
LDA #$01
STA $9F22
LDA #$F9
STA $9F21
LDA #$C2
STA $9F20
LDA #$FF
STA $9F23
LDA #$C3
STA $9F20
LDA #$3F
STA $9F23
LDA #$C0
STA $9F20
LDA #$4A
STA $9F23
LDA #$C1
STA $9F20
LDA #$04
STA $9F23

WORKED!!!!!

Why are you re-setting $9F20 every byte written? You could just use the VERA's auto-increment feature.

Here, this code should work better:

STZ $9F25 ; ADDRSEL=0, DCSEL=0

LDA #$C0

STA $9F20 ; ADDR0=$xxxC0

LDA #$F9

STA $9F21 ; ADDR0=$xF9C0

LDA #$11

STA $9F22 ; ADDR0=$1F9C0, Increment=1

LDA #$4A

STA $9F23 ; Frequency=$xx4A

LDA #$04

STA $9F23 ; Frequency=$044A

LDA #$FF

STA $9F23 ; Volume=63, Left=1, Right=1

LDA #$3F

STA $9F23 ; Duty=50%, Waveform=Square

[Gernreich]

Cheers StinkerB06 !!!  Do I need to reset to play another note?

Edited October 16, 2020 by Gernreich

[Gernreich]

Hrm maybe decrement/increment?

[StinkerB06]

23 minutes ago, Gernreich said:

Cheers StinkerB06 !!!  Do I need to reset to play another note?

Yep! After the code is executed, ADDR0 points to $1F9C4, which is the start of the 2nd channel. So you'll need to manually rewind it by 4:

rewindChannelNumber:

LDA $9F20 ; Retrieve ADDRx_L

BEQ rewindChannel16 ; Skip this if zero

SEC

SBC #4 ; Subtract 4

STA $9F20 ; We're done

RTS

rewindChannel16:

DEC $9F21 ; If past 16th channel, decrement ADDRx_M

LDA #$FC

STA $9F20 ; ADDRx=$1F9FC

RTS

[Gernreich]

Cheers again!  I'll need to look at this for a bit.  Is this the minimum code for me to reset and play a new frequency? (no other change is made).  How about rewind by four, increment, increment, rewind by two, increment, increment, rewind by two..........

Edited October 16, 2020 by Gernreich

[Gernreich]

Maybe something like this added to the end of your program:

 

LDA #$C0
STA $9F20 ; Set ADDR0_L to $C0
LDA #$4B
STA $9F23 ; Frequency=$xx4B
LDA #$A0
STA $9F23 ; Frequency=$A04B

LDA #$C0
STA $9F20 ; Set ADDR0_L to $C0
LDA #$4C
STA $9F23 ; Frequency=$xx4C
LDA #$A9
STA $9F23 ; Frequency=$A94C

.

.

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If the above is correct there is still the matter of it playing the notes too fast 

Edited October 16, 2020 by Gernreich

[StinkerB06]

31 minutes ago, Gernreich said:

Cheers again!  I'll need to look at this for a bit.  Is this the minimum code for me to reset and play a new frequency? (no other change is made).  How about rewind by four, increment, increment, rewind by two, increment, increment, rewind by two..........

I have another version that does a dummy read:

rewindChannelNumber:

LDY $9F22 ; Save ADDRx_H and auto-indexing factor

LDA $9F25 ; Retrieve CTRL register

AND #$01 ; Mask all but the ADDRSEL bit

TAX ; Put in X index register

LDA #$38

STA $9F22 ; Decrement=4

LDA $9F23,X ; Do the dummy read and decrement (Can you give a clue why I used an index register?)

STY $9F22 ; Restore ADDRx_H and auto-indexing factor

RTS

This one probably is less efficient, but it only takes 1 label instead of 2.

Edited October 16, 2020 by StinkerB06

[Gernreich]

Dang, guess I'll need to study this a bit more, thanks for the quick responses StinkerB06 ! 

[DusanStrakl]

Maybe my implementations of Music Player and Simplest Sound Effects Library for BASIC programs could be useful to you. I go into some detail explaining how they work on my blog posts:

https://www.8bitcoding.com/p/simplest-sound-effects-library-for.html

https://www.8bitcoding.com/p/music-player-library-for-basic-programs.html

[Gernreich]

Thanks for sharing DusanStrakl! I will take a look at them.