CrossBow Posted June 13, 2021 Report Share Posted June 13, 2021 14 hours ago, peteym5 said: Do you know when it will be ready? Do we know if a future version of 7800 Basic and Emulator will also support this. The way I might design any games that use anything with a passthrough, is they will still work without any extra device, just won't hear additional sounds in this case. That way people can still purchase and play the game. I do not know the current status but the way it would operate is exactly as you stated. It would be present for games that need it and games could be programmed so that if it isn't present, then obviously they could still work but with reduced sounds. Additionally, Batari (Fred Quimby) just posted a demo of his new HOKEY chip in action playing Commando. His chip is to be a pokey replacement for a fraction of the cost but also have the ability to include additional sound engines programmed into it so that it could emulate FM and other audio chip sources as well. Even talk of Quad Pokey which, the options that could bring would be amazing. But his is more of a chip on cart solution, same as what is done now on 7800 home brews that need pokey in them. TrekMD 1 Quote See what I'm up to over at the Ivory Tower Collections: http://www.youtube.com/ivorytowercollections Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dauber Posted June 28, 2021 Report Share Posted June 28, 2021 Regarding POKEY driving up the price of the cart if used...the HOKEY replacement for POKEY will be, what? Ten bucks a pop? TrekMD 1 Quote Supernatural, perhaps...baloney, perhaps not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted June 28, 2021 Report Share Posted June 28, 2021 The HOKEY will make enhancing 7800 games much easier, that's for sure! dauber 1 Quote 🖖 Going to the final frontier, gaming... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteym5 Posted July 31, 2021 Report Share Posted July 31, 2021 I am seeing Hokey, PokeyOne, and PokeyMax over the years. Who will be selling Hokey and do you have his direct contact information? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrossBow Posted August 2, 2021 Report Share Posted August 2, 2021 On 7/31/2021 at 9:41 AM, peteym5 said: I am seeing Hokey, PokeyOne, and PokeyMax over the years. Who will be selling Hokey and do you have his direct contact information? Fred Quimby is the developer behind the Hokey. You also know him as Batari over at AtariAge. Thus far he has only sent a few of his new Hokey chips to Al to be tested with 7800 pokey games. Al hasn't reported on that testing yet. But from what Fred has stated, the Hokey won't be available to everyone until sometime in September currently. But apparently it can be programmed for lots of stuff like the dual pokey modes and Covox digital PCM sampling that the PokeyMax is also able to do. I asked about getting one to test in the Dragon Fly cart but he stated he was only allowing the few he has right now to be used for testing and for his own Concerto carts project for now. Quote See what I'm up to over at the Ivory Tower Collections: http://www.youtube.com/ivorytowercollections Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteym5 Posted August 2, 2021 Report Share Posted August 2, 2021 We may consider a separate Pokey version later. Cartridges will run at an extra cost. For now, I will continue to work on other projects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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