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  • speccy soundI know this sounds a bit vauge but can anyone explain to me why the music on some 48K games was so amazing and so much better than the usual beeper s…

    ... AY music but not for beeper music.
    Now, ... done by the beeper is amplitude control (or volume). You see ... louder the sound. The beeper only has two voltages it ... to the beeper if you change the volume on one ... music on the 48K beeper (frankly having an AY ...
    cyborg cyborg November 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • speccy soundI know this sounds a bit vauge but can anyone explain to me why the music on some 48K games was so amazing and so much better than the usual beeper s…

    ... - which is slightly lower in volume *if that's at all ... lock my 2 channel phasing beeper routine (tm) into a loop ... ) and he DOES have a volume control. God knows how!
    Joffa Smifff Joffa Smifff November 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • speccy soundI know this sounds a bit vauge but can anyone explain to me why the music on some 48K games was so amazing and so much better than the usual beeper s…

    ... 254 does indeed have two beeper controls however the basic principals ... the same.
    As to volume control that's basically really ...
    cyborg cyborg December 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • speccy soundI know this sounds a bit vauge but can anyone explain to me why the music on some 48K games was so amazing and so much better than the usual beeper s…

    ... 254 does indeed have two beeper controls however the basic principals ... the same.
    As to volume control that's basically really ...
    cyborg cyborg December 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Spectrum musichello, I was wondering if anyone had released some kind of music sequencing software for the spectrum? if so, can anyone point me in a direction of …

    The Beeper does indeed, as you say, ... sample editor) is either full volume or silence, with no inbetween ... producing various tones at 16 volume levels, with it's own ...
    Dunny Dunny October 2002 Games
  • Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…

    ... , doing anything meaningful with the beeper probably isn't possible, for ... be a third of the volume of the AY, so I ... drop the music by a volume level or two to compensate ...
    gasman gasman August 2003 Games
  • I just registered to ask one questionGive me 10 (or more reasons) about why is it exactly that it was better to have a Spectrum instead of a Commodore back in the eighties. And why do yo…

    ... a square wave like the beeper - digital output being possibly merely ... far as I remember, the volume scale on the AY, as ...
    GOC GOC August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New SpeccyDo you think someone should go about creating a new spectrum computer? I'm talking about a spectrum compatible (not an emulator) with the capabiliti…

    ... voice's volume register. The resolution attainable on the beeper depends ... , the better a DAC the beeper makes.

    ... beeper to bias the speaker at the 50% position for zero volume ... - and the beeper tunes always sound like beeper tunes... apart from ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Programming Sound EffectsHi guys, Have decided, probably due in some way to my midlife crisis, to tart up and re-release (or even just re-lease) the old 48K Speccy games I w…

    ... bits) as compared to the BEEPer's 2 static positions (1 ... positions depending on the last volume written. It truly is easier ... the PWM technique with the BEEPer monopolizes cpu time (you've ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2004 Development
  • Samples on ZXWhat is the easiest way to make a sound sample (e.g. sampled speech)on Spectrum using pc samples? Suppose a have a PC .wav file and I want to transf…

    ... . ..00010001.. for 25% volume, ..01110111... for 75% volume, etc.[/quote]
    < ... 42 levels) on a Spectrum beeper. I can't remember the ... describe - you drive the beeper fast enough to interupt the ...
    Failing that the Spectrum beeper is really 2 bit - the ...
    cyborg cyborg April 2005 Development
  • Polyphonic music with the speakerAnyone knows how to make music with more than one voice with the 48k speaker?

    ... 've got four voices, possible volume levels are 0,1,2 ... achieve multiple volume levels using PWM techniques on the beeper. Four can ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2005 Development
  • Oh no! Not again! (Serious PC probs)I was upadting my graphic drivers (NVIDIA MX440 GeForce 4) and my sound drivers (Realtek AC'97 for VIA (R) audio controller), but when installing the…

    ... only the PC beeper and in the Sound volume settings it says ...
    FRGT/10 FRGT/10 July 2006 Chit chat
  • rubber troublejus got 48K rubber speccy into my possesion, which was my first computer back then but only for few months before daddy decided to upgrade it for 48+…

    ... decks, ipods etc etc have volume limiting built in - you may ... is hearable through Speccy?s beeper, when using 48 rubbered, EAR ...
    de Vandemar Croup de Vandemar Croup August 2006 Hardware
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... it's single channel beeper with no volume control, only two colours ...
    ewgf ewgf August 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • What are people using TommyGun to do?So I was just wondering what people are using TommyGun to do?

    ... approach. Unless you're adding beeper support (probably not worth ... Notes (pitch, duration and maybe volume) on up to 3 channels ... (i.e. envelope), and volume control, with overall controls for ... volume and tempo. This should ...
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2006 Development
  • What are people using TommyGun to do?So I was just wondering what people are using TommyGun to do?

    ... . eg. no of channels, effects, volume range etc.

    o ... syth music from the zx beeper. :)

    o There would ...
    Kiwi Kiwi September 2006 Development
  • Four Channel Sound on a 128kI was thinking about tinkering with my 128k spectrum to make some tunes with it. I see you can utulise 3 sound channels on a 128k Spectrum. However…

    The other issue is that the beeper is the same volume as all three AY channels combined at full volume, which makes it a bit more awkward to integrate nicely.
    AndyC AndyC December 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • How Loud Is A SpectrumHi All How loud a Spectrum.. I have yet again bought a third 48k Spectrum that seems to have problems. The machine in question all works but the …

    ... screech is of the same volume.
    [/QUOTE]

    ... beeper is the sound you feed from your tape deck. Its volume ... of course on the output volume of the tape deck and ... you hear nothing from the beeper.

    Anyway, the ... of the Speccy's beeper.
    Mikie Mikie December 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZXSP Emulator running too fastHi All, I was wondering if any of you have had a problem whereby the zxsp emulator runs too fast so won't load games etc? For example, when loading…

    ... channel sound out of the beeper. I suspect that the Music ... out at a much lower volume. I'll have a look ...
    Fred Fred January 2007 Emulators
  • Speccy ringtones/MP3sI've started a collection of speccy MP3s to use as ringtones/whatever. They can be found at the Speccy Google Group at: [url]http://groups.google.c…

    Installed all of them, but the beeper ones sound too loud, at least on my moto. I'm going to change the volume and resave them. :)
    zxbruno zxbruno February 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Question about digitized sound and videoI searched the forums and couldn't find the answer, so here it goes. Regarding digitized sound: I remember reading an article long ago about a vid…

    ... a PWM player for the beeper -- just click on OUT to ... , after gasman provided a stolen volume table from the ATARI ST ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2007 Development
  • Audio level on a grey +2Hi all, I received yesterday my "new" Spectrum 128+2 grey. It's a french one (without modulator, and with specific roms : message in french). First …

    Somewhere, in the +3 handbook. it says something about the PLAY command being a third the volume of the beeper. The beeper is the same level as all three AY channels driven at the same time.

    'swot it sez in da book!
    DEATH DEATH February 2007 Hardware
  • Audio level on a grey +2Hi all, I received yesterday my "new" Spectrum 128+2 grey. It's a french one (without modulator, and with specific roms : message in french). First …

    ... being a third the volume of the beeper. The beeper is the same ... together and 100 for the beeper. So what is wrong and ...
    Pascal Tournois Pascal Tournois February 2007 Hardware
  • explosion sound effect how?Anyone have any tips on programming an explosion sound effect using 128 sound chip? I know that you use the white noise generator, but how exactly? …

    ... I didn't have any volume control to fade it out ... 'bang' to it for a beeper!
    frobush frobush July 2007 Development
  • Best loading on a gameFor me, it has to be Technician Ted, with all those TT's walking across the screen. 2nd comes Skooldaze, only because I spent many MANY of my evenin…

    ... my +2 and +2A the volume of it is a bit ... low side (loading sound through beeper is much louder) - this is ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat December 2007 Games
  • New ZXDS releaseHello, new ZXDS version is ready and will appear on [URL="http://zxds.raxoft.cz"]the site[/URL] in few hours time, so make sure you check back befor…

    ... that I believe that the volume of the emulated AY sound ... games that use the old beeper the AY chip drowns out ...
    crazyteknohed crazyteknohed March 2008 Emulators
  • Beeper octave range...A dumb question, I know, but I've found two conflicting sources of information on the octave range of the Sinclair beeper. I suppose I'm being a lit…

    ... rather than calling the ROM beeper routine) to achieve each semitone ... to have some fun with volume, you may change the duty ... would want to have real volume control, you would need to ...
    Patrik Rak Patrik Rak April 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Beeper octave range...A dumb question, I know, but I've found two conflicting sources of information on the octave range of the Sinclair beeper. I suppose I'm being a lit…

    ... to have some fun with volume, you may change the duty ... would want to have real volume control, you would need to ... you wrote Star Dragon's beeper driver. what it is its ...
    Fikee Fikee April 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • SENDING beeper music from Z80 to AY?Hello. According to [url]http://z80.e-demo.pl/[/url] Z80 sends music-data to ULA (the 1-bit transducer). I was wondering if it's possible to send…

    ... be very same quality like beeper, basically.
    but i ... : more advanced beeper drivers do not see beeper as an abstract ... this is used to emulate volume on beeper. and this can be ... state without complete reconstruction of beeper driver.

    btw. ...
    Fikee Fikee April 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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