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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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Accelerated GamesPlaying Driller the other day on Spectaculator, I wondered what sort of improvement could be made by increasing the emulation speed to 10x. That way,…
Wow! That's brilliant. I've never actually ... twelve hours ago? Where have the Spec-chums gone?
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Best games voting system -The "Best Games" right now shows Spectrum CP/M to be the "best game", when in fact it is not a game. Also isn't there something inherently wrong if…
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Where I went wrong previously, and ... was a Top 100 was that when I`m downloading games ... page to Inlay, grab that then ahm gone usually.
I ... games 10.
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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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The only thing that got on my nerves, was ... 've got to expect that they would take longer ... -
Spectrums games vs. modern games; very interesting... I've read a number of replies (on Matt's tears thread) regarding spectrum and modern console games. I found it very interesting. I think the games …
... ! I mean, that's absolutely insane! Where do you go with that? I'm ... the "jaw-dropping" factor has gone in gaming when you see ... shoot them again etc etc. That's not satisfying to me. But ... it again.
Where's the logic in that? :)
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Spectrums games vs. modern games; very interesting... I've read a number of replies (on Matt's tears thread) regarding spectrum and modern console games. I found it very interesting. I think the games …
... you are talking about regarding that.
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Okay, if that's the case (as you said ... play it again.
Where's the logic in that? :)
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8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…
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So, where I was the C64 was ... just a reflection of where I was living and ... it out sometime?", "What's that?", "What's it like?". No one ... it was more like "That's great!" and maybe they ... one. Amstrad shop had gone out of business by then ...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.I.E 6Can someone please help me! I know this is going to sound stupid but my I.E 6 has changed! It used to be that when I clicked on a file to download i…
... sam coupe scene has really gone to your head tbh and ... think this equates with thinking that I'm "better" than ... /> ... and I have no idea where that attitude comes from.
s that word that means the opposite of underdog?I.E 6Can someone please help me! I know this is going to sound stupid but my I.E 6 has changed! It used to be that when I clicked on a file to download i…
... sam coupe scene has really gone to your head tbh and ... think this equates with thinking that I'm "better" than someone ... /> ... and I have no idea where that attitude comes from.
s that word that means the opposite of underdog ...Music!!! AGAIN!!!!!!Just got that Q magazine spin off mag today "depeche mode and the birth of electro pop" or something like that, not very catchy :p it features bands…
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What's that ... , ( tiny tear drops on keyboard ) where did my bloody life go ...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 ...nibblyOccasionally, I play the excellent game 'nibbly' under Yape (A commodore 16 emulator), with SID chip emulation. (Please don't ban me for this sacreli…
It's OK I don't even ... . And now you've just gone and reminded me of the ... of a fishing rod. Where is that bikini top now I wonder ...
