Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!mordor!ut-sally!crandell From: crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell) Newsgroups: net.music.synth,net.games.video Subject: Re: Marble Madness & FM Music Synthesis Message-ID: <2882@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 15:01:14 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.2882 Posted: Fri Sep 13 15:01:14 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 15-Sep-85 05:37:16 EDT References: <2614@ihnss.UUCP> <267@weitek.UUCP> Reply-To: crandell@sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell) Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 14 Xref: linus net.music.synth:482 net.games.video:466 In article <267@weitek.UUCP> mahar@weitek.UUCP (mahar) writes: >In article <2614@ihnss.UUCP>, knudsen@ihnss.UUCP writes: >> FM chip should be pretty easy to build. >Your right. FM chips are not that hard to build. However, Yamaha >has the basic patent on FM sound generation. Atari's lawyers >didn't want to fight it so they just bought the chips from Yamaha. Uh -- wait a minute. Exar was making an FM-able waveform generator chip (XR206, I think) fifteen years ago. Aren't you leaving out a significant part of the story? -- Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!crandell