feature request: register dump

[cyberic99]

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?

[cyberic99]

@FigBug what do you think?

[FigBug]

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

[cyberic99]

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

[danboid]

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?

[cyberic99]

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