furnace/doc/7-systems/watarasv.md
Electric Keet d4364a1b74 Many doc updates.
Settings changes, interface niceties, and a ton of info about sample limits.
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# Watara Supervision
a failed competitor of Game Boy, straight from Taiwan. released in 1992, it had a tilting screen, $50 price tag, very fast 4 MHz 6502-like CPU, framebuffer graphics and sound capabilities similar to Game Boy.
these are 2 pulse wave channels (same as on GB), barely working PCM channel and noise channel, also not unlike Game Boy. no hardware envelopes or zombie mode, though.
## effects
- `12xx`: **set duty cycle/noise mode.**
- range is `0` to `3` for pulse and `0` to `1` for noise.
## info
this chip uses the [Watara Supervision](../4-instrument/watarasv.md) and [Generic Sample](../4-instrument/sample.md) instrument editors.
### sample info
the sample channel is a 4-bit DMA channel with 4 frequencies assigned to sample octaves (C2, C3, C4, C5; C, C#, D, D# in Furnace respectively). max sample size is 4 kilobytes (8192 samples), samples are padded to multiples of 32 samples, and loop points are ignored.
## chip config
the following options are available in the Chip Manager window:
- **Swap noise duty cycles**: enabled by default. when enabled, short noise is on odd-indexed duty cycles, like on Game Boy, rather than even.
- **Stereo pulse waves**: disabled by default. when enabled, it forces pulse channel 1 to the right output channel and second pulse to the left output channel.