SID feature request: register dump

Hello It could be interesting to have a realtime register dump, to a pipe. The output could then be sent by another process, to real hardware, or logged to a file. You could use a text format with timing info and reg nb/value, or use the .vgm format, for instance. What do you think about it?

Jan 01 '18 23:01 cyberic99

@FigBug what do you think?

Jan 08 '18 18:01 cyberic99

Haven't had time to look into doing it yet, pretty niche feature.

Jan 08 '18 18:01 FigBug

In fact I think that it won't be too difficult, as you already work with the emulated CPU registers. It is a step towards playing the tunes on real hardware, so I think it can be quite useful

Jan 08 '18 20:01 cyberic99

That doesn't make sense to me. Surely this plugin is for people who don't have a real SID chip or are looking to exploit the advantages of softsynth plugins? Why send data to a real SID via a softsynth plugin, which could only introduce latency and other potential issues?

Dec 08 '18 12:12 danboid

The aim is to record the reg dump and then replay it later on real hardware. It does not really need to be realtime or latency-free, but it has to embed accurate timing information

Dec 08 '18 18:12 cyberic99