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Yeah, you're about 50 years too late to try and make a dent in *that* one. About all that's left is for the formal definition to catch up with usage.

As a non-native English speaker I had the impression that it was a "stronger" form of "raises the question", say almost something along the lines of "this screams for the question to be asked".

There can be only one most infuriating common grammar error.

(Actually, it'd be nice if there were only one).

There can be only one most infuriating common grammar error.

No shit. Just unpacking my stuff that arrived in Sweden yesterday has been making me rage, because every box I open I'm assaulted with "computer game's", "cable's", "book's", and so on. Fffffuuuuuuuuuu...

Including the quotation marks?

I was quoting the writing on the box. Justified use of quote marks.

Hi Couriersud,

I've been making some more comparisons between ay8910 noise from real MSX and MESS and came to the conclusion that although very comparable, the noise sounds generated by MESS seem to miss some of the dynamics / "crispiness" of the real MSX.

I've tried to generate a good example of this, which unfortunately isn't easy, but hopefully the next one brings it across well enough.

It's a 4 second recording of the choppersound from the MSX game H.E.R.O. (a classic ), versus the same recording in MESS. In the audio sample the first 4 second part is from the real MSX and the second part is from MESS.

Please download soundsample here: http://www.filedropper.com/heronoisecomparison

If you listen to it a few times, you'll (hopefully) notice how the real MSX sound is more well defined, and the MESS emulation is sounding more "mushy" (for lack of a better word).
To me this is exemplary for most of the MSX noise emulation.

I've added the audiogram comparison in the picture below. It shows how the real MSX has more dynamics, versus the MESS part which is looking like a block diagram, cut-off at the bottom.

I'm hoping that a netlist implementation would improve this by some margin. I remember you had (or were working on) a preliminary / test implementation for an msx netlist based on the spectravideo schematics (referring to this post). Would it be a possibility that we could test that implementation, just to see how it would impact the current example?

Hopefully this can provide a good objective testcase to get the MSX / ay8910 sound emulation another step ahead.