[sdiy] dsp box hacking?

[Richard Wentk]

At 21:08 12/06/2006, Aaron Lanterman wrote:

>On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, gregory zifcak wrote:
>
>>>software.  Sure, you might be able to de-compile it and do it, but
>>>you'd have to have the skills and the tools to do so.  It wouldn't be
>>>easy and it might not even work.  Compiled DSP code, like any compiled
>>>code, is just machine language instructions.  If you can find a
>
>I wish someone could do that with the Oberheim OB-Mx. That's a very 
>interesting piece of hardware with software that was never quite finished...

Wouldn't it be easier to start from scratch with something like the OB-Mx? 
If you can pull all the port numbers for the hardware off the schemo, 
creating the code is relatively straightforward. And certainly quicker than 
disassembly - although still not fast, as such. I'd expect a project like 
that to take at least a year or two.

Disassembly used to be relatively do-able. The various DX7 expansions were 
based on dissassembled ROMs, and the Linn9000 famously had an updated OS 
based on a disassembly project.

I'm not sure if the software has become more complicated (which is 
possible) or whether lawyers started getting involved.

Richard