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The ZX Spectrum has this sound chip (or almost, for the pedants) and there's a lot of interesting music composed for it. Mostly from Eastern Europe apparently?
by qiqitori 3y ago
The ZX Spectrum has this sound chip (or almost, for the pedants) and there's a lot of interesting music composed for it. Mostly from Eastern Europe apparently? Here's a good selection: https://zxart.ee/eng/music/top-100/ https://zxart.ee/eng/music/top-100/
(I had a bunch of time last year and learned a lot about some retro sound chips, including this one, and while at it converted two tunes I liked to MSX ROMs, as I have an MSX and the sound chip is the same: https://blog.qiqitori.com/2023/05/playing-psg-tunes-or-even-asc-pt3-tunes-on-the-msx-part-2/ https://blog.qiqitori.com/2023/05/playing-psg-tunes-or-even-...)
- beagle3 3y agoThis was the 128K spectrum. The original ones (16K and 48K) had a 1-bit CPU driven speaker, worse than the PC’s original speaker (which could do background square waves thanks to a programmable timer). Even the 48K had interesting music, when programmers figured out how to do pwm with up to 5 channels. But not a lot of it.