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Formant synthesis on the AY-3-8910I was idly pondering ways of getting interesting sounds out of the AY chip, and it occurred to me the envelope system might be useful for formant syn…
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Help! Suggestions of best known AY tunes needed!At this saturdays [URL="http://www.retroevent.org/"]Retro Event[/URL] I'm bringing my ZX Spectrum laserharp with me. This time the laserharp 'show' (…
... thinking: when I find a AY tune and remove the track ... and just leave one track out (I'll make a temporary ... to switch on/off the AY track).Want to start making AY tunes but need help!Hey everyone, I have ZX Spectrum+, a DivIDE plus, an AY Magic card, and a Kempston equivalent joystick interface (which I believe can also emulate o…
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Can anyone help me out please? I would love to ...Convert .mid files to .asm for AYI've had a mess about with Midibeep for converting midi files to Basic BEEP statements with little success, it got me wondering if there were a progr…
... to assembly code (for 128k AY) in a similar way Beepola ... but I can not work out how to implement it...AFX Sound Effects DatabaseGentlemen, I'm converting some games from ColecoVision to MSX (sorry, not 100% ZX Spectrum related, but...) and in some cases, I'll need to completel…
... , which is different than the AY we all know.
AY Sound FX Editor (it's all ... don't get any money out of them.
A friend ...Making AY musicCan anyone recommend an AY music making package that is as user friendly as Beepola is for the speccy beeper? And do they make their own interrupt r…
Can anyone recommend an AY music making package that is ... time I sorted out how to use this AY thingy.
Raycasting (3D Games!) with SpecBAS<div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: normal;">Here's one I wrote just recently. I wanted to see …
... pixel across the screen, work out the angle that pixel is ...In-game AY music and sound effectsI'm currently working on various aspects of a Spectrum game and thinking now about the sound side of things. I know you can use a utility like Vortex…
... using the beeper via an out(254) routine (taking care not ... it possible to use the AY chip and use just 2 ...Old games with hacked or added AY music for 128k Spectrum?is there a way to find out which old games have had AY music added to them in recent times? Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles would have sounded nice with …
is there a way to find out which old games have had AY music added to them in recent times? Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles would have sounded nice with the original music score on AY.Restoring AY registersAfter doing (not still finished) the sna to tap converter, I'm going to try to do the same for 128k snapshots. I've got threee ideas about what to do…
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SNA snapshots don ... registers).
AY registers would be "out of sync" in procedures ... snapshots. Procedure 3 is less "out of sync", but produces more ... routine at address 7805: an out (c),a followed by a ...Ay interfaces compatibility and/or differencesHmm, I have been looking for an AY interface to do an upgrade to a 48K machine. But, how many models are there now? And is there some compatibi…
... have been looking for an AY interface to do an upgrade ... differences that make one stand out or be "better" than other ...+3 - beeper sounds but no AY musicHi guys I am repairing a plus 3 revision 2 board that had no sound at all. Using schematics from https://zxnet.co.uk/spectrum/schematics/ I manage…
... however, I still have no AY music whatsoever.
... end up replacing it anyway out of frustration), but other ... than a new AY chip does anyone have any ... are signals on the AY chip's pins although ... fixed that but not the AY sounds.
...No AY sound from online emulatorsI've writing an app that makes sound using the AY. I have a simple update mechanism that works like this: 1. During a frame, I write values to a b…
... that makes sound using the AY. I have a simple update ... of memory that mirrors the AY eegister layout (ay_regs)
2 ... , copy that to the actual AY registers (do_update_ay)
Now ... /> ld b,HIGH(AYDATA)
out (c),e
inc hl ...games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…
... i havent totally figure it out yet ) I've tried Congo ... built in sprite editor, sound fx and music maker, is one ... to MicrMania and the excellent Microhobby with lots of useful tricks ...Basic problems with +3Hi everybody, sometimes ago I bought the ZX Spectrum +3. Currently I have some questions, to verify my thinking. 1. How I can easy copy the ZX Spec…
... BASIC - just by using IN/OUT to the floppy drive controller ... programs to use the AY chip for music/fx, but I think ...Basic problems with +3Hi everybody, sometimes ago I bought the ZX Spectrum +3. Currently I have some questions, to verify my thinking. 1. How I can easy copy the ZX Spec…
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I also think (but can't be sure) that it allows programs to use the AY chip for music/fx, but I think that may be the case for 48k mode too.
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The AY is still accessable even when paging and such is locked out.Ultimate PollIt seems that most people like giving their profiles/opinions, so here's another one... see if I can make a poll out of it :) (some questions may ha…
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8. Best 'AY' music in a Speccy game ... Spectrum magazine
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out on some other system before ...Ultimate PollIt seems that most people like giving their profiles/opinions, so here's another one... see if I can make a poll out of it :) (some questions may ha…
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8. Best 'AY' music in a Speccy game ...
DESPERADO( aka GUN SMOKE out spain) it was fucking slow ... . Favourite old Spectrum magazine
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18. Favourite old ...Classical music on the Speccy?While I was watching CVP409 videos on YT, I found a few movie scores and it made me start yet another topic about the AY chip. I know the beeper and…
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[url]http://microhobby.speccy.cz/mhf/177/MH177_50 ... forgivable with classical music. Multiple AY chips is another possibility of ... :
"And the best AY tune under the Classical music ... suppose I ought to dig out and post up. I think ...What to write next...?Having not being blessed/cursed with such a mad & rampant imagination as Mr. Cauldwell I'm always after ideas for new spectrum games to write. It's …
... replies everybody!
Out of the list so far ... . I planned to use ay versions of pop classics and ... be able to help out with the fx... ;)
If ... some screen shots and planning out how to code it. ... the Pimp My Chips ay musicdisk instead.. ;DAnybody know how many games supported the fuller boxAnyone know of a list? I found Invasion of the Body Snatchas so far...
... OUT 65533 and OUT 49149 (spec128's AY ports) instead of out 63 and out ... 95 (fuller's AY ports ... anyone wants to try out invasion with ay sound ... [url]http:// ... transformed with its huge explosion FX and alien arnings. I've ...Software with AY Music supportFollowing a couple of queries from customers, I thought it might be useful if we could have a thread which identifies which games and software suppor…
... have Lee du-Caines excellent AY-Music & SFX:
AY-interface then sadly the ... [/url]
Rallybug (only FX, not music) [url]ftp ... zip[/url]
Shoot-Out [url]ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum. ... pub/sinclair/games/s/Shoot-Out.tap.zip[/url]
Smiler 2: In the CityHi All, I've now completed my next game, "Smiler 2: In the City". It is available for download here:- [url]http://wonko.gotdns.org/sinclair/smile…
... 's really worth checking out. Of course the great ... already did have BEEPER sound FX. Although, after the ... forum, people there mentioned AY music was a good ... mentioned I would incorporate AY music into the sequels. ... for the presence of AY hardware. Just call the ...Which games had the best music?Well? I always loved the music you heard upon dying in 'Zombie Zombie'. Also, are there any sites that have mp3s of Speccy music. I've seen the ones…
... , I can't work out to play AY files on a Mac ... em dry (direct) or thru fx... and bouncePlaying AY sounds with BASIC.Is it possible? If so how? I've seen in one forum a while back mention of using interrupts to play but AFAIK this is machine code only. The goal of …
... write values to the AY data ports using OUT. It works. I ... an old snippet published in Microhobby circa 1989. It came with ... TO 13: READ a: OUT 65533,i: OUT 49149,a: NEXT i ... and test things out easily.
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Noise channels on AY-3-8912?I'm trying to reproduce a tune that's a jazzed-up version of classical music - i.e. there are drum beats all over the place, to try and mask the low …
... Smith games i did the AY music/sound for). i always ... of the music started cutting out when you pressed fire, etc ... with a lot of sound FX. it just sounds unprofessional, IMHO ...Your views on...Wham! The Music Box[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0008965]Wham! The Music Box[/url] The program responsible for the music of Fairlight and Way o…
I had the 128k ay version which was pretty good ... it much.
Check out [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org ... engine, as well as Special FX engine (my personal fave), amongst ...Games wrongly listed as 48/128KMartijn, I dont see any difference between the 48 and 128K versions of these games, but I may be slipping some details since I am not a coder!! :) …
... provide 128K in-game sound FX when loaded in 128K. ... [quote]-Russian`s attack by Microhobby (Type-in)[/quote]Changed to ... quote]As it addresses the AY chip, that means 48K ... uses the AY chip for in-game sound FX, so 48K ... Soft[/quote]Has an AY tune on the opening ...
