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Effect
Executes the MSX-AUDIO internal application (firmware).
Notes:
- This instruction must be used before CALL AUDIO.
- Stricto sensu, it should not be part of MSX-AUDIO BASIC, as this instruction is not compatible with CALL AUDIO that is required to initialize the MSX-AUDIO system and use MSX-AUDIO BASIC. In a similar way to CALL FMPAC on the FM-PAC cartridge, it launches a built-in software and you can't use MSX-AUDIO BASIC (or MSX-MUSIC BASIC) inside the launched application.
However, the MSX-AUDIO standard specifies that this instruction must always be present in a complete MSX-AUDIO cartridge, to allow the launching of an MSX-AUDIO application and each manufacturer can include any MSX-AUDIO application. Only Panasonic did that by including a modified version of an application created by Toshiba. Theoretically, it would be possible to replace this application by another MSX-AUDIO application, that would be launched by CALL SYNTHE.
This hybrid situation explains why CALL SYNTHE is mentioned in this Wiki section, but when you use MSX-AUDIO BASIC in your own programs, you will actually never use this instruction.
Syntax
CALL SYNTHE
Related to
CALL SYN (that launches another version of the application when using the Toshiba HX-MU900 (FM-Synthesizer Unit))