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The Good, the Bad & the UglyWhich games, in your opinion, were better on the Commode 64 and Amsad CPC than the Speccy? And vice-versa? I ask because I believe that many Speccy g…
... as for music i think that ( off the top of ... for sound production but the AY chip was very popular and ... 48k beeper stuff at it's best).
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Tales of hate and despair in 8-bitsThis topic seeks to shed some light on one of the most obscure questions a spectrum user can ask. Why do we hate Commodore?
... ? Because it's not a computer - it's a video game ... enough to handle the Spectrum's screen resolution without extra ... /> That said, my particular version of the Spectrum had an AY chip, ... was composite video and Commodore's serial interface.
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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…
... the AY chip and the beeper simultaneously? That is, have music through the AY chip ... , mix music through both AY and beeper to make it ... />
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Have you seen jonathan?s AmusmentPark ??Jonathan Cauldwell has made a 4k game for 2003 minigame compo. Its a fully colour speccy version of ThemePark that SIMPLY ROCKS!!! check on his web…
... AY sounds .. heh.. as you may have noticed I dislike anything that ... has no AY extras, there's just no excuse ... /> except for the fact that a 16k speccy has no ay chip.;p -
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…
Yeah, that SID chip really scrapes my brain when ... Hubbard), but, in most cases, that thing suffers from a bad ... !
The AY chip is more "tolerant" - it's easier to make ... opinion, this is because the AY chip uses squarewaves, and most C64 ... -
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…
... people in here say that the AY chip sounds better than the ... sid? The AY came strait ... and in my opinion that sound chip sucked. bow down ... .
it's subjective i guess. theer are ... the majority of 8bit chip music i like is ... -
Sync-buzzer, interrupts and general confusionBeen wittering on about this in the Misc group, but thought it was best discussed here. Basically been trying to recreate the Sid-Sound effect from A…
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AY chip for me. I have been ... player routines on Sergey Bulba's site, and thats given me ... be a test by fire. That code gives me a headache :) -
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…
... their MAIN COMPUTER.
It's not all just a nostalgia ... me either. Being into something that's from the past doesn't ... it's the best model in many ways, but to say that ... the original was "rubbish" is rubbish in itself. The AY chip ... -
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…
... from the Beeper,AY,SID and Atari's Pokey for ... bland, brown, nasty 80's digital synth, a cheap ... it.
The Ay is better, its got a ... , a lot like the AY in many respects, but ... doing things.I know that any chip on any 8- ... or even better (the AY and SID both had ... -
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…
... simply not the case that the AY was better - ... s true that a SID can be programmed to behave like the AY ... 0-4kHz compared the AY's much larger 0-10kHz? ... that the waveform generators are 4-bit DACs on the chip ... always say it's an overestimated chip. The proof is ... -
SID vs AY?We've all heard how the music on the C64 was apparently the best thing since sliced bread, and that it beat anything produced on the Spectrum hands d…
... as my own statement about AY and SID 'feels' right for ... />
What on earth does that make you precisely? A warrior ... said about another machine's obsolete sound chip was nonsense. The geek ... -
Amiga MOD on ZX SpectrumWell, there were several question about music matters on WOS lats times, so I decided to describe some of my 'adventures', heheh, with MOD playing on…
... - just like we - AY chip, and they play MODs there ... does MOD file sound on AY chip:
... /> third: well, it's full AY's quality on ST - about ... from Amiga500: this time on AY chip.
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Amiga MOD on ZX SpectrumWell, there were several question about music matters on WOS lats times, so I decided to describe some of my 'adventures', heheh, with MOD playing on…
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My only reservation is that the source code on the ... 't make any sense of that stuff about a matrix of ... a routine based on Gwem's description, though.
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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…
... - under USR0 mode, the +3's paging (extra memory) systems are ... disabled, along with the +3's disk system. However, you can ... be sure) that it allows programs to use the AY chip for music ... in z80 asm, so Cyborg's answer, though strictly correct is ... -
Sound DreamJust daydreaming, don't beat me for this, if any of you assembler guru's (especially emulator developers) ever are in need of new ideas, it would be…
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I think that it's interesting that some people are dedicated ... it something it's not. I also agree that GS games seem ... ripoffs, but again that's due to the fact that nobody with any ... best 15 colours and an AY chip. I may change my mind ... -
Sound distortion on +2/+3Hi all, this is my first ever posting, so please be gentle! I have two +2s and a +3(all second-hand but in vgc) and the AY output on all three is ver…
... other thing I noticed was that, even taking the audio ... directly off the AY-3-8912 output pins ... -and-clear!
That was NOT the case when ... +2 (grey-case) AY chip - only the AY sound came through.
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If there's ONE thing that......frustrated you about the spectrum when you were a kid (not now) what would it have been? 1) The attribute colour problem 2) The sound 3) The size…
... Spectrum although it had it's colour clash problems, didn ... 't have blocky graphic's unlike the C64 & ... a 128k machine and the AY chip kept me happy.
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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…
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The AY chip can do 16 static positions ... your samples, it's the AC part that makes sound. You ... 0.125ms. Nyquist's sampling theorem says that you can EXACTLY ... is in a finite range -- that's the bandwidth for practical purposes ... -
The best sound/sound effects on a Spectrum gameHi, wot do you think was the best sound and or sound effects on a Speccy game. I ask cos I think good sound effects sometimes definetly added to some…
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Another one that impressed me was the female ... , that's cheating, as Ghostbusters used the BEEPer and Starglider used the AY chip. -
Great place to get old/new Speccy AY music from?Im after some more AY files other than the pack located @ Project AY. Any ideas folks? I did a quick search and never came up with anything much...
... up chunk of Z80 code that plays AY music when you run ... tracker that runs on the Spectrum and generates music for the AY chip ... and generates music for the AY chip). These files could be converted ... appropriate player routine, but there's not really much point.
How that music was created?Games like for example "Chronos" and "Raw recruit" have excellent music played by 48k speaker. That music sounds "real" - it's very different from ty…
The irony is that my favourite piece of Follin's music is the ... single-channel thing with the AY chip, although it uses extra channels ...Worst Game Music And SoundWhat do you think was the worst speccy music and sound. My vote is for "Miner Willy" great game but the music at the begining was like nails on a cha…
... no special use of the AY chip's envelopes, and it goes wrong ... in noise-making, let's put it that way.
[ This ...Why emulators are not as good as the real thingI think I remember thx1138 saying before that emus didn't cut it for him. Well, I agree. They are good fun, and I got into the Speccy for a second ti…
... whole thing by pointing out that my machine blurs the whole ... /real thing line anyway. It's a real Z80 machine (modified ... out stereo panning from the AY-chip, but it is possible. The ...What do you prefer?Heres a question for debate. What spectrum do you prefer? The rubber keyed speccy of old or the later Amstrad offerings? I prefer the +2 cause it ha…
It's been discussed before, but I'll say again that the 128K ... the first Spectrum with the AY chip, giving 4-channel sound if ... -yourself approach to tape loading that we all loved.
< ... /> The Plus 2 changed all that with its redesigned, less distinguished ...Emulating the SamRAM on the ZX Spectrum SEGerton Lunter gave me permission to reuse the code, but so far I have not been able to get the software to work in paged RAM banks.
... br /> Try running "Shock" megademo's 2nd part on a Timex ... or Spectrum clone. It's a real hardware solution ... 48K machine and an AY chip that works using either the ... give you that. I programmed the timex's gfx modes ... matter of fact here's my speccy clone wishlist ...A Few QuestionsHi, can you help with a few questions. 1. On ebay you see a lot of rubber key spectrums. How can you tell the difference between a 16k and 48k machi…
... better sound effects that took advantage of the AY chip.
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...How long must I keep doing this?[quote] On 2006-02-13 22:14, ZX Beccy wrote: Although you have raised what could be considered valid points, I think you should think long and hard b…
... [B]know[/B] that it's bollocks (as I've ... link to a page claiming that AY shags goats, thereby ( ... it's found in many sugars, and could be where aspartame ... br /> And yes, AY, we all know that methanol is highly toxic ... for AY's personal attacks on me, I note that at ...How long must I keep doing this?[quote] On 2006-02-13 22:14, ZX Beccy wrote: Although you have raised what could be considered valid points, I think you should think long and hard b…
... ridiculously long name involving an AY chip) won't have a clue ... clue what [I]he's[/I] talking about, that's not surprising. :p ...How long must I keep doing this?[quote] On 2006-02-13 22:14, ZX Beccy wrote: Although you have raised what could be considered valid points, I think you should think long and hard b…
... 2006-03-06 23:01, Where's my tinfoil hat gone... wrote ... many) thing(s) AY has totally failed to grasp is that truth is ... Medical Journal) agree with me that AY is talking nonsense; and as ... brother at that age reckoned that relativity was rubbish (ISTR that he was ...Which ZX Spectrum 48K game-music is the best?Hi there. I got an idea I could ask here about the topic like above. What do you think? C64 fans made a ranking of their beloved songs from games…
... C64 when a kid - that?s no comparison, AY sucks :p
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the chip is poor, believe me ;)< ... - heatsink for my collection, that would allow me playing games ... I love the AY chip and so, telling me that you hate it ... love it and it's not crap. i.e. ...
