-hard plAYer- 8 bit tunes hardware player
posted Oct 22nd 2008 7:00am by Kimberly Laufiled under: digital audio hacks, home entertainment hacks
For people who miss the golden age of Atari music, you can recreate the magic of 8 bit music with the -hard plAYer-. [Tolaemon] put a lot of thought and work into this hardware player. From the AY-38912 programmable sound generator, which used to be in old computers like the Atari or Colour Genie, to working with the YM file format, each piece is put together with the utmost care. [Tolaemon] also provides his design, firmware(ZIP), and parts list so that you can make your own hardware player.
[via Matrixsynth]
good old days, I remember some ZX spectrum games had support for AY-3-8910 chip, you had to mod your ZX81 yourself to add this “sound card”. I myslef had C64, I even wrote a player for SID files in assembler. Computers were so simple back then.
Posted at 10:53 am on Oct 22nd, 2008 by rasz